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    - SetAssignmentWorkData(changeXML) I'm trying to set some work to an assignment using the "PSI" method ("SetAssignmentWorkData(changeXML)") and i need to know the "changeXML" sintax. Could anybody help me. Thanks! Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113236
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    - Timescale I want to show "week ending" dates on my Gannt chart timescale instead of "week starting". Is this possible? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113222
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    - Assining resources Good day, I have to insert many diferent resources in one task. His there a way to assign resources to some kind of "family". So that if i insert the "family", the resources are inserted automaticly. tanks Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113221
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    - how do i show remaining work by month? Greetings All, It seems this has been the subject of much debate already... All i want / need is Remaining Work to be available as a calculated value by month for specific financial projections in the right hand side of the screen. I have a custom view but can only access the usual work, actual work, remaining availability and so on... I am working over a reasonably high number of plans and the subtraction of actual work from work to give the value is impractical. From what I can tell there is no way to achieve my ends - but if anyone can show me the light I'd be very greatful!! Cheers, Juro. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113219
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    - setting up working hours I want to create a project for building a house. In that project scheme, I want to set start and end hours of each assignment. However I can't find the way to do this. I can set up start and end dates though, but I also want hours as well. Any help appreciated. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113216
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    - Priorities for tasks Hi all, Using MSP'98 with master (with 30 sub-projects inserted) to manage multi-department, multi-resource (man & machine both) workshop which has some 40 projects being executed at their varoius completion stages. I have configured the schedules & I get the work load for resources (simple who does what when report) or similar report for department (instead of resource). It's fine, but the report is just a list of activities from all sub-projects in which I can only identify the critical activities. The problem is the departments want the priorities for all the activities. e.g. If for a week, the report lists 20 activities to be carried of which 5 are critical. My department heads agree that the 5 will be done on priority, but the balance resources can work on only 5 activities of remaining 15 activities. Now which are these 5 priorities which should be worked upon, In other words, Can I get all the twenty activities sorted as per priority with critical always at top of list ? The guidance will be appreciated. Thanks. -- 3326ubb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3326ubb's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=12502 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=616537 http://www.techarena.in Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113215
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    - How do I change the end date that appears automatically? When I'm doing a Gantt chart I enter the duration of a task (39 days) and the end date -that appears automatically- appears as 2 years after. Why is this happening and how do I solve it? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113207
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    - how can I identify the tasks causing overallocation? Please could you tell me how to identify the tasks that cause overallocation? I understand the principle behind overallocation, however cannot find a way to see what task is clashing on which day. I dont want to trail through all of the tasks...Many thanks Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113203
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    - How do I assign all tasks for a Resource A to Resource B How do I assign all tasks for a Resource A to Resource B? Find and replace all does not work :( Cheers Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113201
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    - MPD-file to xml-file (MS Project 2003) I have a program that reads Microsoft Project 2003 XML-files Now I'm in need to read in mpd-files as well. Any tip on how I can do that? A simple tool/service for converiting mpd to xml would be great! Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113197
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    - ms project Server 2003 hi i am trying to install and configure ms project server 2003 and i am trying to confegur the data base for it can any one help me to to that Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113196
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    - =?Utf-8?Q?Change_the_=E2=80=98project_statistics=E2=80=99_?= Thanks for taking the time to read. I have saved my project baseline 2, but when I now view the â??project statisticsâ?? dialogue (found on the menu â??Project/Project Informationâ??), it shows the info for baseline 1. My question is â??how can I change this to show baseline 2â??s information? Kind regards George Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113195
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    - Play a CD disc What is the quickest and easiest way to play a CD after entering it in the disc holder? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113193
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    - Project Management (November Update). Procedures and Guidelines for Project Management,What is Project Management?,Project Management Processes,Project Planning Tutorial,Ten Tips for Managing a Project,Related Project Management Articles & Resources http://flying-rugs.com/project-management/ Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113184
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    - where do i find "microsoft project plan import export"? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113183
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    - Erratic results from formula in text field A text field with IIf(datediff("d",[Finish],NOW())>0,datediff("d",[Finish],NOW()),"") returns Days Late. I've set Use Formula for summary rows, and a filter shows only incomplete tasks. The results are erratic -- some summary rows with Finish dates in the future display Days Late values. What am I missing? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113182
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    - i have saved my 2 works on same name and it would not let me ope. could u please answer my question thanks!! Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113180
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    - Project Mangers Maturity Model Includes MS Project: http://tinyurl.com/pwzfr Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113179
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    - hi What is the default setting inside MS Project Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113171
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    - please help - confused now! MS Project 2003 I am rebuilding a plan and would like the following but cannot get project to do it! e.g. a simple set of tasks that are linked to occur one after each other task1 then task2 then task3 if each is two days long task1 starts mon finishes tues 2d task2 starts wed finishes thu 2d task3 starts fri finishes sat 2d How do I get project to display the data this way - what its doing is: task1 starts mon finishes tues 2d task2 starts tues finishes thu 2d task3 starts thu finishes sat 2d Although they are the same in terms of schedule I want it to read as the first list. I have set my project up as fixed duration and NOT effort driven... Help appreciated greatly Chris Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113169
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    - remaining work 06, 07 I need to provide some work hours for a project: - total work - actual work - remaining work in 2006 - remaining work in 2007 I know how to manually go into Resource Usage and grab remaining work for 2006 and 2007. I'm looking for a more efficient and repeatable method. Can I do a custom filter or create a custom field to allocate remaining work into 2006 and 2007? -- Jesse Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113168
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    - i want to generate S-curve i want to generate S-curve in MSP send me the command Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113153
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    - Program Management Sir I am working as a project management consultant,I need your help regarding PROGRAM MANAGEMENT.Right now only started to explore about program managemnt,so please help sir by giving introduction to program managent or site address to collect data, THANKING YOU.., Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113152
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    - WANT TO SAVE THE CONTENTS OF A REPORT FROM PROJECT i have created a report in project 2003 standard and I am able to print the contents, how do i get to save the contents as well, something like save or save as Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113151
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    - Beginning to Format in Word 2002 First of all I would like to thank all of the MVPs for the work that you have given to helping users learn formatting. I am a 72 year old women who has been using a computer for years but gave up trying to use Word until my son got me Microsoft Suite 2006 which has where the newsgroup was given as one of the Help sources. I have really been working hard at Shauna's tutorials and have printed out just about everything that all of you have written. At this point in time I am still working on Shauna's tutorials. When she said that her mother was writing a letter in Excel. I thought "at last someone who understands." Ok now enough of the chat. My hobbies came to the point that I just had to start indexing my hundreds of articles, tutorials. After I read the MVP articles I knew I was going to have to learn how to format, I was wasting so much time looking through my binders, books, and magazines. I have just about finished Shauna's tutorials for the third time and actually starting to understand. I realize that I am going to have to overlearn to be comfortable but I just love doing it. It's like magic. 1. I have several binders full of the articles written by the MVPs. I realized that this would be a good starting point to format an index for each of the binders I have with your articles. I have turned out some pretty good looking indices (in my eyes)<g> In Basic Concept 4 Shauna says in the paragraph" How to remove the border"that the gridlines won't show when printed out. I have taken all of the steps she gives but the gridlines still print out. I just can't get rid of those gridlines. This isn't a big problem, but I would like to understand why the gridlines print out. 2. When the Modify Style Dialogue box comes up asking "Do you want to update the Style to relect changes"? or "Reapply the formatting of the style to the section" and lastly "Automatically update the Style from now on". I'm just not sure what I should do. I have just cancelled it because I don't want to mess up. 3. I Save as I go along, sometimes when I go to the Folder to work on the formatting tutorials I notice that some of the files have the following: ~$W to use the Reviewing Toolbar in Microsoft Toolbar in MSWord 2002. Why does it have ~$W. I opened the file but it was just gobblygook. 4. I used one of Shauna's articles and clicked on "Styles and Formatting" just to see how she formatted the article. What I want is to number the article say as 1. then for the other articles belonging to the main article have it showing as 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and then for the second article in the index or list 2., 2.2, 2.3. is that clear enough? It would be so easy for me to find what I am looking for. Thankyou all for your help deejay Deejay atkdj@microsoft.com from Beautiful Georgian Bay, ON. Canada Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113149
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    - How do I move my Project 2003 settings & macros to another compute I want to move to another computer and move all my Project 2003 Standard option settings, macros, views, etc. I read that these are supposed to be stored in the Global.mpt file but that file is still dated 2003; it never changes; copying it to another computer has no effect. Where is all this data being kept and how do I copy it to another computer? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113147
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    - Can we Dynamically change gantt bars? Hello Is it possible to change the individual gantt or taskbar colors dynamically based on schedule details? I am using Project 2000. I am famililar with custum columns and adding formula into custom columns, however I want to display different gantt or taskbar colors dynamically based on data in the schedule. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113133
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    - Correct Setup Question We work with conversions and can take 30, 45, 90 days to complete a conversion. How do I setup the project plan template to adjust for different end dates? However, we have tasks that start and finish prior and after the conversion end date. The start and finish dates are setup within the lag field. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113130
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    - Setup We work with conversion plans that may take 30, 45, 60, etc, days. We usually have a conversion end date (ie. 12/31/06, 2/21/07, etc.) to work with for a completion date. However, we have tasks that will start and finish prior to and after the conversion end date. How do I setup the project plan? I have so many different versions of project plans that I've setup and none work properly. I need help asap!! Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113128
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    - Is it possible to change the individual gantt or task bar colors.. Hello Is it possible to change the individual gantt or taskbar colors dynamically based on schedule details? I am using Project 2000. I am famililar with custum columns and adding formula into custom columns, however I want to display different gantt or taskbar colors dynamically based on data in the schedule. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113121
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    - Project 2003 out of memory error #7 When doing the Visio WBS Chart Wizard, I get this error stating :An Erro occurred in the COM add-in named: Visio WBS Chart Error #: 7 Out of memory. I can contact get pass this, please advise Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113118
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    - Batch remove links Hi, Does anybody know how to remove the link between lots of tasks in one go? At the moment I am having to select each taks individually and remove the link, very time consuming. Thanks Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113109
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    - Printing a custom range Hi, My project lasts for months, it is divided into two phases each lasting two months. I want to print two Gantt Charts each showing a phase. I have not managed to print it such that the date range of each chart is only two months. Even if I filter out the 2nd phase, when it is printed the whole range of the project is shown. Can anybody help? Thanks Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113108
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    - how do I track progress with time vs % complete Here is my need: I need a column that indicates we are falling behind on a task. for instance: I want it to check the date and caculate that it shoudl be 50% complete by today and if it is not, show an indicator. This column will feed a "upper level" dashboard by linking. Is this a feature already existing? I tried duration variance, however I thik it will only show Variance AFTER the finish date.. is that correct? Thanks for your time... Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113104
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    - Problem in publishing project I write one after trigger on MSP_WEB_PROJECTS on insert. I have on custome application running parallel with PWA.I have different databas for my application.I am trying to insert records in my database i trigger. I checked my trigger logic, it is working fine.But when i apply this o msp_web_project it is not working. I create one table in Projectserver database and write same trigger o insert of this new database then it works fine but not working o msp_web_projects....... Please anybody suggest me what I am missing... Kamlesh Rochani........ -- kamodare ----------------------------------------------------------------------- kamodares's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=485 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=124399 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.i Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113101
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    - Importing data from excel Hi there, I have ms project 2003, I have a seperate excel document containing the following information: Resource 1 Resource 2 task 1 1 day .5 day task 2 1 day 1 day task 3 6 day 8 day How do I import the information from excel into Ms Project. I want to be able to allocate 1 day of work from resource 1 to taks 1, 0.5 to resource 2 and so on. Can anybody help me? Thanks Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113099
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    - Resource Allocate An Activity has working for 3 days, I have two resources.I want to allocate the first resource for 1st day and the 2nd & 3rd day i want to allocate the another resource. How can i allocate the resource by this method. Hope u will help in this.... Tnx..... Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113095
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    - How do I link recurring subtasks in Project An example would be publishing a monthly newsletter with recurring draft, review, edit and publish tasks for a 1 year period. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113093
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    - how to convert mpp file into gif file format? how to convert mpp file into gif file format? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113091
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    - Resources on Recurring Tasks Is there a way to assign resources to a recurring task rather than having to go into each task individually? I want to set up a project team meeting that occurs once a week for the next year. The same people will attend the meeting each week so I'd like to assign that to the recurring task rather than going into the 52 individual tasks. Thoughts? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113082
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    - Add contingency to each task automatically Would like to know how to apply a general contingency to MS Project. Have base estimate but would like to apply a percentage to it to create a contingency column so that the contingency is applied to each task on the plan. The purpose of this is to add a general contingency (ie. 10%) to the project without having to add as a separate task which impacts on earned value. Ie. Work column has 8 hours, Contingency column has 8.8 (includes 10% contingency) Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113080
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    - Change Resources Calendar I have a resource that has his available time set to weekdays from 10am to 12pm, using our company's base calendar. I'm trying to change him back to having 8 hours per day, 8am-12pm, 1pm-5pm, but I can't seem to find a way without going day by day and making the change. I feel like I'm missing something, that it should be easy enough to just "reset" his calendar 8 hours a day. Thx! Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113069
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    - manage users and groups my question is about how i can to manage my users and categories in project web access to permit only they can see all projects that haven not finished, because everyone can see the projects that have been 100% completed. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113066
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    - Programmatically Changing Hours Worked Fields in Project 2003 I am using Project 2003 Pro and attempting to populate the hours worked fields from a CSV or XLS. I cannot seem to find anything in the object model or in any code samples that will let me change the hours for individual days. Here are the specifics: I have an XLS or CSV with employee hours and projects they are working on. Some of the projects are tracked in MS Project. Rather than manually keying in everyone's hours worked for a two week period, I would like to parse out the file and populate the hours for the pertinent dates using an app. So, how do I get access to these fields in code? Thanks for any information you can provide. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113056
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    - Deadlines - rollup to summary level We use Deadlines on our tasks. In our experience, we've seen that the Deadline date does not roll up to the summary task level. Is there any way to get Deadline to roll up, sorta like Finish date does (that is, the latest value appears at the summary task level)? Thanks! Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113054
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    - enterprise options Hello, i just installed MS Project2003 Pro SP2 (upgrade project 2000 to 2003) Under the Tools bar , i have not the option 'Enterprise option' How can i fix this? Tx, Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113053
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    - MS Project 2000 I am a new user to MS Project 2000. In one of my project, I encountered the following cases: 1) one task was done with zero cost. 2) Task started earlier than scheduled. in EV reports MSP 2000 ignored the my actual cost entry (zero)for the task in case (1)and showed the baseline budget of this task and in case (2) ignored the actual cost to-date I entred for the task started earlier. Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113052
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    - Tasks that occur concurrently- Microsoft Project I am attempting to create a schedule where various tasks (some with different durations, some with the same) need to occur concurrently. It isnt a matter of starting on the same date or finishing together only, they are flexible as long as they occur during the same time. Ex. Task A requires 30 days. During that 30 days Task B must occur requireing only 10 days. Task B does not need to start when task A starts nor finish on the same day as task A, it simply must occur DURING the 30 days. Is there a way to show this? Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113051
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    - Complete un-install of Project Professional 2003 including registr Does anyone know how to clean all reg keys after an uninstall? I have a problem connecting to the Project Server on 1 PC. When I uninstall and re-install some settings remain. I want to completely uninstall. Thanks! Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113050
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    - Message box Hi.. Ive got a small lillte macro that traces predecessors and successors. I want a message box when there are no predecessors or successors available. Here is the macro: Sub TRACE_Successors() Dim Job As Task Dim Base As Task For Each Job In ActiveProject.Tasks If Not Job Is Nothing Then Job.Flag7 = False End If Next Job Set Base = ActiveSelection.Tasks(1) Base.Flag7 = True For Each Job In Base.SuccessorTasks Job.Flag7 = True FilterApply Name:="Trace", Highlight:=False Next Job End Sub Can anybody help me that if there are no pre of successors a message box will show up!! Thanks Tag: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink Tag: 113048

We have a resouce pool with a couple hundred resources that is used by 30-40
relatively small projects (up to 200 lines or so). A given project may use
30 or 40 resources (not all 200). The resource pool is currently about 25M.
If I Save As under another name and then kill all of the links to projects,
the size remains the same (actually, it dropped by 2K - big deal!).

Do anyone know why the file is so big and how, if possible, to get it to a
more realistic size.
- Will

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Re: Huge Resource Pool Won't Shrink by Mike

Mike
Mon Oct 30 14:34:59 CST 2006

Hi Will,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ Item:
43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address:http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP

roadkill wrote:
> We have a resouce pool with a couple hundred resources that is used
> by 30-40 relatively small projects (up to 200 lines or so). A given
> project may use 30 or 40 resources (not all 200). The resource pool
> is currently about 25M. If I Save As under another name and then kill
> all of the links to projects, the size remains the same (actually, it
> dropped by 2K - big deal!).
>
> Do anyone know why the file is so big and how, if possible, to get it
> to a more realistic size.
> - Will

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