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    - export/import to/from excel In MSP2003, SP2, if I export any project to excel using the default task map, after importing back from excel I lose the original percentages of resource assignments, i.e., resources assigned 50% will come as fully assigned, although resource_names shows it OK (e.g. Jhon[50%]) in excel. Â¿any ideas?. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117732
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    - Project Notes Is there a way to show the project notes in a team project that is linked to a master project. So when you see when you look at a task from the main project you can see the notes for individual tasks. MS project Professional 2003 Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117725
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    - How do I transfer macros from one machine to another? I have several macros that I wrote and I want to put them on a new computer I just received. I tried transferring the module with the code to a project, saving the project, going to the new machine, opening the project and transferring the module to the new machine's global. I don't get any errors and I can open the module on the new machine and see the various procedures but they don't show up in Tools, Macros. Please help! Thanks, Walter Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117724
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    - Project 2007 Issues I converted a project from Project 2003 to Project 2007 so I could use the cell background color feature and to do some grouping. I set a custom Group-By (Resource name then Severity) and set each of these group-bys a different color. I noticed when I added the group-by, that it didn't keep all the columns in the grouping.(the would appear white to the left of the grouping color). I then noticed that when I tried to insert a field when on the first column of the grouping (Task Name) that they would insert to the left of Task Name, however they would be outside the grouping. Trying to hide the "Task Name" column would remove the Group By and I couldn't find it again to add it back (Insert Column). I wanted to have another column as the first column...but looks like the "Task Name" column can only be the first column... I changed the background color of a row to Aqua, and it did change the background color of all cells except for this "Task Name" cell while in Gant Chart view. When I goto to Print Preview, all cells for this row are colored Aqua including this "Task Name" cell. However, the coloring for the grouping does not show in the "Task" rows so the printout looks bad...if you wish to view screenshots of the issue, you can view them here: http://home.pct.edu/~hanben34/ProjectIssues.html Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117723
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    - Slack Time Not Correct-Cannot Figure Out Why My college class textbook has a diagram and it is set-up like the following. Task F will not be shown to have 12 days of start-slack. Task F, dependent on Task A in a finish-start relationship, could start as early as day 5, after Task A is completed, or as late as day 17, to make sure that the task is completed by day 20. Why won't MS-Project show 17 days of start-slack, or how could this problem to eliminated so that MS-Project WILL show 17 days of start-slack? Under the predecessors, the numbers represent A-F. Task Duration Start Finish Predecessors A 5 days Mon 1/8/07 Fri 1/12/07 B 1 day Thu 1/11/07 Thu 1/11/07 1SS+3 days C 2 days Thu 1/18/07 Fri 1/19/07 2FS+4 days D 6 days Mon 1/22/07 Mon 1/29/07 1,3 E1 1 day Wed 1/24/07 Wed 1/24/07 4SS+2 days E2 1 day Wed 1/31/07 Wed 1/31/07 5,4FF+2 days F 3 days Wed 1/31/07 Fri 2/2/07 1,6FF+2 days Task F only has predecessor TASK A, start-start, no lag time. It also has Task E, Finish-finish, lag time of 2 days. Can you tell me why the software shows no slack time, when it should show 12 days, and why it shows beginning on day 17 instead of an early start on day #5?? Or, is there a way to fix this so as to show the proper slack time? Thanks, Bill Behm Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117718
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    - Protecting Actual Work in 2007 Hi all! Is it possible to do this like we used to in 2003? Thanks, Jerry Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117713
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    - Project Resource Allocation I have a master project that I am using for a resource pool. We are mostly utilizing this resource pool as a task tracker for certain teams. My question is when tasking an individual out, should the team requesting the resource task them out or should the team that holds the resource task the individual(s) out. And when they do, what percentages should be used. From what I understand the 100% units is part of the standard calendar day in this case 8 hours. So should it be 100/8 or if there is just that one task a full 100 %. But then the other project managers would see that resource as being allocated out for the day. Is there a procedure that works for this situation. Any suggestions would be great. MS Project Professional 2003 Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117712
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    - Visual Report - Create Report Error I have a trial version of Project 07 that I am evaluating. I am trying to run the "earned value over time report" visual report. When I select "view", it states gathering reporting data, then building local OLAP cubes, and then I get an error. The error box states "An unknown error has occurred. An error occurred and the requested action could not be completed at this time". Does anyone know what is causing the error? Thanks in advance... Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117711
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    - Project has no set date Hello How do I input tasks that do not have a set date?? Everytime, i put the task, it is defaulted to today's date.. i want to leave the date blank. also how do i remove the constraint sign without changing any of the dates. Everytime i remove it, it reset to today's date.. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117709
  - 10
    - How well does Office Projest 2007 work for constrution? Hello, I work for a custom home constrution company and have been given the task of figuring out this new program for our super. I need to know how to understand it for my company. If there is anyone out there that can help me do this and then try and show other people, any advice is welcomed. Thanks a bunch. -- Ginni C. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117707
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    - Customizing Columns in Project Hello there, my question is two-fold. (1) Is there a way to delete a column in Project? I know it can be hidden however I am looking for deleting instead of hiding. (2) If you create a custom column and hide it, how do you unhide it? I seems as if when I try to use this feature upon hiding this custom column, it disappears completely. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117696
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    - Formula I would like to use the Outline Code Description in a text field. How does one get the description and not the outline numbers Thanks for the help?? Ron Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117692
  - 13
    - Merge from Excel - Resource Sheet - When save they turn to empty f I'm merging materials from our BOM system using excel. The BOM information is exported to excel and i have an existing map i'm using. I'm using the resource name as the the merge key - since these resources are materials, the BOM system has a unique name for each resource. When i merge the BOM excel file, it adds new resources to the resource as Type = Materials. I have about 4 new resources being added in addition to the updates to existing resources and everything seems to work just fine. However, when i save (i'm using project server 2003 and have a checked out project schedule), the resource sheet appears to re-sort itself and it makes the newly added resources as 4 empty/blank values ...the data seems to disapper. I'm wondering if anyone has seen before and if so, what is the issue? thx. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117684
  - 14
    - Use of Central Resource Pool causes crashes in Project 2003 profes Hi, I am using Project 2003 professional within my organisation and I am building a small workgroup of about 5 or 6 projects all using a central resource pool. I have set this up successfully once before. However this time as I try to share resources from the resource pool Microsoft project tells me an error occured and it has to close project down. I click to allow a report to be sent off, but I cannot find any reason why it is doing this. It does it on every single project I try to share resources with. Any advice would be great Regards Peter Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117675
  - 15
    - Project 2007 Client Cannot Connect To Project Server 2003 I am using Project 2007 software installed on my computer to connect to a Project Server 2003. I add the same URL that I use to normally access the Project Web Access interface in to the Project Server Accounts dialog box and no matter what authentication I perform I get the following error message: Could not connect to Server Project was not able to connect to Project Server because of the following error: Client:An unanticipated error occurred during the processing of this request. (ID=0x800a13bd) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117674
  - 16
    - Master Plan Hi guys I have created an overall master plan and with 6 different streams: Service Training Operations Data Finance Warranty Each of the above I have created a single task in the master plan and then asked the stream leaders to create their individual plans and then linked their plan to mine. This is so it helps when they ever change their plan, mine is automatically updated. There are 6 key milestones, which I have input into my overall plan, and each of the streams has to ensure that they adhere to the key milestones in my master plan. My question is can this filer down to their plan from mine or do thay have to insert the milestones into their individual plans? There are also dependencies in between stream plans as well, how can these be linked? Sorry these questions maybe a bit basic, but I am new to this and trying to learn as I go alon Thanks Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117673
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    - Stipulating printing dates to print from and to within "Print" men Within the "Print" menu I can enter the dates that I would like to print from and to , which I have to assume referes to the dates I have entered into the "Start Task" and "Finish Task" columns of my project plan. However, the Print Preview does not seem to be affected by this alteration and commonly either does not display all the required dates (e.g. leaving off a few months information from the Gantt chart), or displays too much of the project plan (e.g. projects that are beginning later than the dates I have stipulated. Has anyone experienced similar issues with MS Project 2003, and can anyone provide me with advice on this issue? -- Kind regards, James Burgess Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117672
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    - How to make akivities list sort by ressurs name I have 40 "small project" in one file (one big project) and all have same types of activities, done by same or different people. Is it possible to sort them out by resources names (if I try that, I got same list of projects, with activities sorted out differently, but I can't get them outside small projects. Thanks, if someone can help! Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117671
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    - Calculating planned percentage Complete I need to calaculate the planned % complete for project and tasks inside the project. I have cost and resources assigned to each task. any help Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117669
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    - Colors available in MSP 2007 Back on 2-15-07 Rod Gill mentioned that 2007 has more colors available. I was wondering where do I go to get more color choices? The same ones as in 2003 are available in my 2007. In fact the lime, aqua and fushia look a lot 'lighter' or 'washed out' and less vivid in 2007. I use these colors quite a bit and now you can hardly see them on the colored printouts. I suppose this happened because some people might want to use them as background colors. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117668
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    - MSProject entered WBS values not correct in Resource Usage view I've created a resource schedule in Microsoft Project Standard 2003. In this I've mainatined my own values for WBS. When I swicth to the Resource Usage view WBS values I've entered are not all displayed. Some entries have outline numbers others have the values I've displayed. If I go back to the Gnatt view and enter some of the WBS values again (i.e. type over with the same entry) then the values in the Resource Usage view begin to be populated. However, I cannot find one route to get the correct values to be displayed in the Resource Usage view. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117667
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    - Delivery Documents Hi Does anybody know what all documents are required when we make any release / Delivery? Does any document are in-built /attached in MS-Project? Thanks Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117666
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    - Delivery Docs Hi Does anyone know what all documents are required when we make a Release / Delivery? Does anyone know if MS-Project has any document in-built / attached? Thanks Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117665
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    - run microsoft office picture manager as my pictures in start up When i go to start up menu and open my pictures i would like microsoft picture manager to open is this possible to do Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117664
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    - Displaying non-working time within Gantt charts on the Print Previ I have allocated the non-working time (both weekends and public holidays) within our annual overall programme of works. This I have sitting in front of the Gantt bars in red which is all clearly displayed within MS Project (Standard 2003). However, when trying to view the details in the Print Preview screen the highlighted non-working time is not visible. I have checked all the rest of the details it also appears that the time-scale displays all days with the exception of Wednesday each week over the period of a year. I can therefore see the allocated vertical column when the Saturday and Sunday (e.g.) should be highlighted, but they are not on the print preview screen. Has anyone got any advise as I have tried everything I can think of, including scaling the overall programme down to a quarterly overview which then displayed the non-working time, but only for the initial 2 months of the programme (possibly a different issue). Any advice much appreciated! -- Kind regards, James Burgess Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117663
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    - Order Tasks Properly HI, I am new to Project and am using MS Proj 2007. I used a work breakdown structure program to get all the tasks in and then migrated to MS Project. In my GANT chart, my7 tasks are out of order, but all under the right headings and I have long arrows all over the place. I have now put all arrows in and want to order the tasks according to time so there is a nice waterfall effect on my GANT chart. Does anyone know how to do this? I have searched around and cant find how to do it. Many Thanks, Phil Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117662
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    - How do i change the default standard rate unit? The default standard rate for resources is $0.00/hr. When i change it to $/day in Tools-Options-General-Default standard rate(tick)-set as default, it takes $0.00/day by default when i enter the resource name. But, when i enter the rate, it converts back to $0.00/hr. How do i keep it constant at $0.00/day? Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117659
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    - Mass change of an external link I currently have 13 different subprojects. My Manager requested that change the names of all the files. I am looking to see if there is an easy way of changing all the external links for each file at once. For example: The original name of a file is Manufacturing.mpp, and my manager wants me to change it to Operations.mpp. Since Manufacturing is linked to 12 other files, I would like to do something similar to a find/replace "Manufacturing" with "Operations" (I tried that, and it does not work). Please help! I have hundreds of links between these files! Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117657
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    - Can't upgrade from Project 2003 to 2007, newer Windows version req A user had a computer with Windows 2000 and Project 2003 on it. He then purchased a Project 2007 license. I upgraded his computer to Windows XP so that I could install Project 2007 on it, but I can't. I get this message: "The specified program requires a newer version of Windows." Is there anything I can do other than reformat his computer? -- Barbara Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117652
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    - Why won't MS Project allow relationship between two successive tas I am taking a project management class and we are to enter in a diagram from our text book. The problem occurs when we get to Task D and Task E. Task E is predecessed by Task D in a start-start relationship with a lag time of 2 days. Task E also has a finish-finish relationship with D with a lag time of 2 days. When I enter this in, I get an error message. Why won't MS-Project allow both a start-to-start and a finish-to-finish relationship between two successive tasks? Another quirk in this problem is that in MS-Project, Task F will not be shown to have 12 days of start-slack. Task F, dependent on Task A in a finish-start relationship, could start as early as day 5, after Task A is completed, or as late as day 17, to make sure that the task is completed by day 20. Why does MS-Project believe that the Earliest Start Time of Task F is also day 17? It should be day 5. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117649
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    - Project time counting back from the project end date I have tasks that are not that important but still need to be in the project timeline. These are tasks beyond the project end date further in the future. I want to use the project count back feature in the project time scale (-5, -4, -3 months from end date) from the project end date but is it using the end date of the not important tasks. Now it looks like we have 2 months of extra time which we do not have Can I overcome this problem? Any help is appreciated. Thanks Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117648
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    - how can i find out if my computer has microsoft excell? Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117647
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    - Simple Work View for a Resource Hello, Is there a way to simply see a normal monthly calendar view (like the 'month' calendar you see in Outlook) where it clearly denotes which days of the month a resource is scheduled to work? I have a 3 month long project and I want to send each resource a view indicating "Here are your scheduled days of work. Plan your vacation accordingly." Many Thanks! Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117646
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    - Task duration based on units in task and resource capacity for uni Need to complete 500 tasks. Each task is unit driven with varying number of units. (eg a task requires 10 units to be build before it is completed). I have 8 resource teams. Each team can build a different # of units per hour. Duration of each task depends on the assignment of teams to a task. I cannot seem to designate a number of units (items to build) to a task, and a units per hour rate to a resource so the duration adjusts to the resource capacity. In sense-- I need to add in a formula to calculate duration. Any advice? Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117644
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    - EPM FE partial communication with BE Setup: Database Server, App Server || Firewall || Web Front End Almost everything else works except the following issue: On the Home page, the Risks and Issues categories are displaying the following error message: "There is a problem establishing a connection with the Web server running Windows SharePoint Services. Contact your system administrator." WSS works fine, configuration is ok since runing the app on the App server behaves normally. It looks to me like the problems is with the firewall, but puzzling is the fact that the connection ot WSS works fine if clicking on Risks or Issues on the top menu bar. Projects are displayed, and from there I can drill down to risks/issues. Any hint is welcome at this point. I've tried using proxycfg with no success. I've checked all account permissions and it all looks good (it works behind the firewall - app-db server only). It's definitely communication issue. Regards, Nik Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117640
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    - how can I send alerts if a taks is delayed? Is there any buillt in feature to send an alert if a task is delayed? Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117628
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    - Microsoft Project If i have several projects on Microsoft Project, can I some how make those project dates show up on my Outlook Calenadar.? can i transfer all the data from Project to my outlook calendar? how can i do it? Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117624
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    - Resource Overallocation I have adjusted the percentages for the resource to show that he is allocated properly. However his name still stands out in red. In the work row there are no hours posted in red. What else could be wrong. MS Project 2003 Professional Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117623
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    - Saving reports Hi there, I use: "View", "Reports", "Cost", "Budget" to get a report on my project budget. But how do I save it to a file?! Also, I think it is sort of lame that I have to manually expand all tasks to show subtasks, otherwise the report won't show all tasks and expenses. Is there a way around this? It will only let me print it. Kind Regards, Jonas Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117622
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    - Saving Column widths in MS Project Is there a method to save column widths in MS Project 2003? I've changed the column width of several columns, saved the file and then upon opening the file, the columns revert back to the default widths. Thanks for the help. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117621
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    - same work hours, same %, same end date I'm trying to both A and B members on 2 different tasks by putting the same work of 100 hours with 75% of resource. I'm expecting same end date, but I get some thing different. Could you guide me how to get this, and things that are required to take care Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117619
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    - Gantt Bars appear to be offset Hi, I'm having a problem with Project which must be simple to fix by changing a setting but I can't find it anywhere. Currently all bars on my Gantt chart start a day later than they should. e.g. the start date for the task is a monday morning but when compared to the scale across the top the bar start point is at the line between Monday/ Tuesday which gives the impression it is starting Tuesday morning. I would like the bar to start inline with Sunday/Monday. The end date on the bars however is correct. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem. Many Thanks James -- James Arundell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ James Arundell's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=22308 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=687759 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117609
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    - Formulas I would like a formula to get only the start time of a task and not the whole date time stamp. I'm not sure how to get this info. Help! Thanks Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117604
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    - art how do i reproduce 16 photo's of myself in black and white layout 4x4 grid to fit a 81/2 reg sheet of paper no margines showing only at the bottom can there be white paper showing (borderless) in other words help Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117601
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    - ms project files don't print in MS document image writer Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117600
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    - how do i recover and open ";lost" photos w/ extension "mpd"? Photos and docs are "lost" . I can llocate them as xxxxxxxxx.mpd & want to retrieve and open and save them as jpeg, or jpd. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117596
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    - Alternative Resource Assignment for a fix task duration Hi, Assume that we have a fix duration for each task and we are able to have different alternative to assigning the resources to each task. 1-Is it possible to have different alternative assignment? 2-IF Yes, How MP select the optimal alternative for assigning the resources? And what is the logic behind the optimization process? -- Maryam Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117594
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    - Project guide I would like to change the guide to a specific number of questions on a template. Where can I find info on making changes to the project guide side pane. Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117593
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    - Outline Codes I have tried a version of 2007 and found the outline code in the grouping view is being displayed like this Outline code 1 : Top Level I would like to know if this is an issue or did I miss somethin in the setup that would be the same as 2003 and display like Top Level with not Outline code 1: Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117592
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    - Autofilter within macros Hi, In order to format a Gantt chart I currently turn on autofilter, filte the results then set the bar colour of all returned results to particular colour. I then repeat filtering for a different type and se the bar colour of the next set of returned results to a differen colour. I repeat this several more times... I'm hoping to automate this by way of a macro however if I record macro whilst carrying this task out the macro does not work. Fro looking at the VB code it appears this is because the autofilter valu is not recorded within the macro when selected. Can anybody give me any advice as to a way round this? Many Thanks James Arundel -- James Arundel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- James Arundell's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=2230 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=68689 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Freeze-ups Tag: 117588

When working on Lexmark or XoftSpySE I get a Time Executable or AIOC exe or
XoftSpySE has encountered an error and must close. What is this and how do I
get it to stop? Thanks
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Re: Freeze-ups by John

John
Thu Feb 22 10:12:07 CST 2007

In article <0D0A45E8-E774-4D99-B388-B2567B019BE8@microsoft.com>,
rjm2 <rjm2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> When working on Lexmark or XoftSpySE I get a Time Executable or AIOC exe or
> XoftSpySE has encountered an error and must close. What is this and how do I
> get it to stop? Thanks

rjm2,
Is this question related to printing data from Microsoft Project, a
planning and scheduling application? If not, you are in the wrong
newsgroup. If you are trying to print a Project schedule, try a
different printer. I suspect your printer driver is corrupt.

John
Project MVP

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