Project leaders are are regularly frustrated by the fact that they cannot enter the start and finish dates on their projects without worrying about duration. They are asking for Fixed Dates as a default. Without that option they are using spreadsheets because that's easier and more manageable for ...

I agree with this request. I would like to sort the group by the total for that group. In this case I'm reporting on planned hours by project and I'd like to sort to show the projects with the highest number of planned hours first.