The Project Timer (ViewToolbarsProject Timer) lets you track the time spent on a project with ease. To fine-tune the tracking records, you can add tasks and track the time spent on each task. You can give a task a meaningful name, and you can edit a task log by resetting the counter or specifying the task duration and start and finish date.
— shows that tracking for the active task has been suspended temporarily, and Project Timer is not recording the time at present. Depending on Project Timer settings, this may happen when the Project Timer panel is open, or another document is in focus. For more information about settings, see To adjust Project Timer settings.
Click the drop-down arrow on the Project Timer toolbar, and in the Project Timer panel, perform any of the tasks from the following table. When you are finished, click outside the Project Timer panel to hide it.
Type values in the Recorded time boxes to specify the total time spent on the task. The first box shows hours, the second one — minutes, and the third one — seconds.
Click the Export options button , and click one of the following commands:
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Export to CSV — to save the time sheet as a CSV file. CSV files preserve the information in a table-structured format similar to spreadsheets. Unlike spreadsheets, they can contain only one sheet and do not support formatting options and formulas. The CSV files exported from Project Timer use commas as field separators.
With the help of the Project Timer Settings dialog box, you can set Project Timer to start or pause tracking automatically in response to specific actions or changes. In addition, inactivity settings help you decide how to treat periods of time when the project is open but there are no recorded document changes. For example, you can set Project Timer to display a prompt or pause tracking after a specified time of inactivity. You can also customize the Project Timer toolbar by displaying and hiding controls.
In the Inactivity Detected dialog box, click one of the following buttons:
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Discard — to delete the entire period of inactivity from the tracking record
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Track as work — to record the period of inactivity as work time. This option is useful to track time spent on tasks related to the project but not performed in Corel DESIGNER. For example, you may have done research on the project or discussed it at length with a client over the phone. Hence, you want to track this time even though you did not make any changes to the project itself.
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Custom — to log a custom amount of time. In the Custom Activity Log dialog box, specify the amount of time (in minutes) that you want to be tracked as work. For example, you may have been away from your desk for an hour. If you worked for 20 minutes during that hour on project-related tasks, you can choose to log only 20 minutes. The remaining 40 minutes will be discarded.
If you want Project Timer to remember your choice and apply it all future inactivity, enable the Remember and don’t ask again check box before clicking a button in the dialog box. This action suppresses all inactivity prompts. To start displaying prompts again, you must change the inactivity preferences in the Project Timer Settings dialog box. In the Inactivity detection area, choose Prompt from the On inactivity list box.
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on the Project Timer toolbar.
— shows that the active task is being tracked
— shows that tracking for the active task has been suspended temporarily, and Project Timer is not recording the time at present. Depending on Project Timer settings, this may happen when the Project Timer panel is open, or another document is in focus. For more information about settings, see To adjust Project Timer settings. 
, and click one of the following commands:
, and click Settings. The Project Timer Settings dialog box appears.
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