Problem with calendar view

When I access the "Calendar View" from either the view menu or the side bar,
a number of my tasks are not visible. They have not been hidden, nor are
they in any way different in priority etc (at least as far as I can tell)
from the tasks that do appear. The date blocks have nice little arrows in
the top left hand corner telling me that there are tasks hiding below and
one can see what they are by selecting the right click option of "Task
List....". This is next to useless to me and certainly not what I expected.

If I drag (enlarge) the date blocks so that only one week is visible on the
screen I can see most but not all the missing task bars except that in this
case I loose the nice little arrows telling me there is more below. I can
drag the task bars to the top of the date windows at the risk of disturbing
Project's calculations. I have a 300 line project, perhaps not big by some
standards but too big to have to go through a process like this.

Can anyone please tell me why I am getting this result and how to painlessly
fix it? Why should the task bars be separated vertically in the same date
block when in all instances they are predecessor/successor, the same
priority etc etc.? The only thing I can think of is that they are not
always on consecutive lines ie their ID numbers are not consecutive, but
that is no excuse for a program allegedly as powerful as MS Project 2003.

Thankyou
Jack

Mike
Thu Mar 10 11:03:14 CST 2005

Hi Jack,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Widening the rows allows more tasks to be seen. If it is wide enough to
show all the tasks for that day, Project will remove the little down
overflow arrow. Thus, if you can no longer see the down arrow, then all the
tasks should be visible. You could try Format/Layout/ and select Attempt to
fit as many tasks as possible. I don't know of any other way round this,
other than not showing summary tasks or filtering to show less tasks. You
could filter for a particular resource to give a personalized calendar.

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

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP



Jack Shearer wrote:
> When I access the "Calendar View" from either the view menu or the
> side bar, a number of my tasks are not visible. They have not been
> hidden, nor are they in any way different in priority etc (at least
> as far as I can tell) from the tasks that do appear. The date blocks
> have nice little arrows in the top left hand corner telling me that
> there are tasks hiding below and one can see what they are by
> selecting the right click option of "Task List....". This is next to
> useless to me and certainly not what I expected.
>
> If I drag (enlarge) the date blocks so that only one week is visible
> on the screen I can see most but not all the missing task bars except
> that in this case I loose the nice little arrows telling me there is
> more below. I can drag the task bars to the top of the date windows
> at the risk of disturbing Project's calculations. I have a 300 line
> project, perhaps not big by some standards but too big to have to go
> through a process like this.
>
> Can anyone please tell me why I am getting this result and how to
> painlessly fix it? Why should the task bars be separated vertically
> in the same date block when in all instances they are
> predecessor/successor, the same priority etc etc.? The only thing I
> can think of is that they are not always on consecutive lines ie
> their ID numbers are not consecutive, but that is no excuse for a
> program allegedly as powerful as MS Project 2003.
>
> Thankyou
> Jack