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    - open pre 1998 project files I am using MS project 2000. I need to open some MS project files dated 1997. Is there any utility available for transforming these files into a format I can open. Thanks bartmacl Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69181
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    - More Questions How does MSP determine the critical path? What is the criteria? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69175
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    - Microsoft Project Users Group in Washington DC I am starting to learn to use Microsoft Project. Can anyone suggests a users group in Washington, DC or Arlington area? Thanks. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69174
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    - Exporting MS Project Data to Microframe Project Manager (MPM) MicroFrame (now Business Engine) used to support a program which create a flat file (comma-delimited) that can me used to export MS Project data to MPM. I believe it was called Microframe Project Link, or MPL. Does anyone know the structure of the export file (i.e. the fields exported and the order of the fields)? I'd like to try to create an application that does the same thing since MPL is no longer in existence. Does anyone know of any other way of doing this? Thanks! JR Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69170
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    - Calculate Work I want Project to do some resource allocation. I want Project to calculate how men I need to get the job done in a certain time frameFor example, I have a task that is scheduled to take 600 work hours to complete...if my men each work 40 hours a week, how many men do I need to complete this job on time. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69169
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    - send e-mail prior to task Is it possible for project to send an e-mail through Outlook to parties about pending task? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69167
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    - Building a schedule I am trying to build a schedule, I have specific start and finish dates for numerous tasks. Is there a way to add in the specific dates without adding a constraint? Also, I started my schedule from listing in Gantt view by first identifying my tasks and then going back to modify the dates for each task. Is this the best way or is there something better? Thanks for any assistance!!!!!!!! Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69163
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    - Compatable with Zire 72 Can anyone tell me if MS Project 2000 can be used with Zire 72? Thank you Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69162
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    - Resource Over Allocation I'm using Project 2000. I am needing to identify by resource group any overallocations. Based on the nature of the projects it appears the easiest way to do this is to assign by groups not individuals. My thought process is to make resources such as Engineering, Testing, QC, etc. I have a couple of questions regarding this approach: 1. Would I change the max unit % in the Resource Sheet to correspond with the number of individuals in the Group. Such as if there are 10 Engineers the max unit % would be 1,000? 2. Is there a way then to show the amount of hours not tasked for the day/week? I hope this makes sense. Thanking everyone in advance. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69160
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    - Date format in Header Hi all, Trying to do something simple but not having much luck. In the header/footer of a task sheet, I'm trying to get the saved date to print in the format 'd mmm, yyyy'. The default format for the date in the project is DDD yy mmm dd, and I'd like to keep that for now. Is there a way to use switches to alter the date format in the header/footer? --dkp Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69159
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    - Resource cost clarification How do I set specific parameters to my material resouce cost? In other words, 10ft. of pipe costs $15 and for task 3 I will use 3 units (30 ft.). Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69154
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    - Customising Fields Is it possible to customise the Baseline Cost field? I have tried via Tools, Customise, Fields and although Cost is specified as a type, Baseline Cost is not included in the list. Currently it allows me to overtype any of the baseline cost fields and does not rollup the figures to the summary tasks. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69147
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    - MS Project - Web Approach??? Hi, Is possible to use MS Project over the web? Actually I am looking for tool for: - Project Planning/scheduling - Resource Management - Project Collaboration - Risk Management I need fast track what resources are on which project (web based). Please, I need help in this. If is possible to do that please tell me how, if is not I would like to know what alternative is? THANKS Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69144
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    - Changing work I have a task set up as fixed work and effort driven. Its set up to 40 hours work. When assigning one resource to 100 % everything is ok.=20 The duration i set up to 40 h. When changing the allocation to 80 % the duration is set=20 to 50 h. So far so good. After this I assign one additional resource and set that=20 one and the previous to 50 %.=20 Now the duration is set to 49.23 hours. The work still is=20 40 h. I don=B4t understand this calculation. Anyone else who does. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69142
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    - Printing Multiple Reports Currently using both MS Project 2002 and 2003. On a current project I'm having to print as many as 20 reports at a time for various stakeholders. Has anyone seen/got a macro that they've developed to automate or batch multiple reports ? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69140
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    - Add button and resource name is dimmed when build team from enterprise Dear expert, Add button and resource name is dimmed when I will build team from enterprise. so i can't select and add resource to project team resource. why? and how fixed it? I am using microsoft Project Professional 2003 and Project Server 2003 upgrade from project server 2002. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69131
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    - setting task starting time by hour? I have a weekend project that starts on Friday night and finishes Monday morning. How do I tell Project 2000 to start a task at a specific time (say 8 pm) on a specific date (say august 6), but not at 8 am (which is the native start time)? The start/finish format doesn't seem to have an obvious way to designate specific times to start or finish. Thanks in advance for any advice. Andy Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69129
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    - Project Hangs I have a client who uses Project 2000 on Windows NT. Frequently, Project hangs and they receive a Dr. Watson error. They have 512M of memory and 1700 tasks. Any ideas? Thanks! Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69127
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    - Filters to include the Summary Task I would like to filter on % complete, resource and date. That is no problem, but if a task is selected by the filter, I would also like to include its immediate summary task. How do I pull this in? The summary task typically doesn't have the resource name on it. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69121
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    - Printing a report of % completed? Hi, is there a way in project 2002 to print a report that merely tells you all the work that has 'not' yet been completed and what their %'s are? Right now I have a custom column that is % complete, my boss has given me the oh so fun task of figuring out how to just print the report based on that column, whats left to work on and the percent. Please help =) -Jason Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69119
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    - Sharing Calendar I am using 2003 standard and I have created a calendar for our company with the specific days off that we take. I want to use this canendar in all my projects. Is there a way to make the default or at least share this calendar? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69117
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    - Adjust task bar height I have yet to figure out how to adjust the task bar height on my project so that the longer named tasks can be seen within the bar on the screen and when I print my project. I guess what I'm looking for is something similar to the "Justify" option for cells in MS Excel. Any ideas??? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69112
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    - Multi-Project Resource Leveling with Project Server 2003 Do you open multiple enterprise projects in MS Professional 2003 and then resource leveling, saving all projects back to the project server? Or do you have to dump all the enterprise resources into a separate project, then open all enterprise projects you want to level across, level them, and then save them back to the server? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69111
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    - Indicators don't show in printing My project view includes the Indicators column and it shows icons in both view and in Print Preview. Yet when I print it, the cells in this column are blank. Any ideas? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69106
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    - Project WG for Outlook We are trying to use the task based feature of project with outlook with good results but have two systems that keep getting an ole error. WGSETUP.EXE is what is needed to bring project and outlook together to deligate task to specfic people within outlook. The error I keep getting on the systems is "One or more OLE controls failed during initialazation. Reinstall workgroup features and then try agian." We try do the reinstall and it open outlook and get the same message. Any Ideas or help on this greatly appreaciated. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69102
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    - Document libraries in PWA We are a software house just starting to pilot MS Project 2003 & Project Server. I want to ask our project managers to publish product development documentation via the PWA Documents page. There are different sets of doc for different phases of the development lifecycle, e.g. specification, testing, beta etc So ideally I would like to get a standard set of libraries to come up when the subweb is created for the project upon publication to the project server. Surely this must be possible via Sharepoint but I can't see a way of doing it. Can anyone help please? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69101
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    - assigning more than one parent task to a sub task Hi, I'd like to share 2 parent tasks for a sub task. for example: The sub task is "meet a & b" currently placed under parent task called "finishing initial plan" I'd like it also to appear under parent task "meetings" - not as a copy, but as the same task, just with 2 parent references. How can it be done ? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69095
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    - Preventing task going accross two days I have MS Poject sort all of my jobs by priority then schedule them based on based on available resources. All jobs are less then a day in duration so when the next job will not fit into the balance of a day, I want it to be moved to the next day. To complicate matters I then want project to identify the next highext priority job that can be scheduled into what was left of the previous day. Any suggestions or am I asking to much? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69082
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    - Date and Time stamping on tasks Is it possible to track date and or time stamping on tasks being updated so you can track oldest tasks to current updated tasks. I am working on a large project plan of over 6500 tasks and to enable me to track tasks more efficiently, we want to be able to sort tasks that haven't been updated in a while. Can that be done? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69081
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    - entering bills and invoices is it possible to enter multiple entries into the "actual cost" column of a single task or resource then be able to review each seperate entry? (i.e. in construction a project may have 50 tool rentals that all belong to the "tool rental" task) Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69079
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    - Project 2002 vs. Project 2003 What are the key differences between the two products? Why should I upgrade to 2003? How does it function with Sharepoint (if it does, where can I find out how to set it up)? Thanks, Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69074
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    - Varying Weekly Hours for One Task? I am trying to schedule a software architect to execute a singel task over an 8 week period. The first week, they will dedicate 30 hours, each week thereafter, they will dedicate 10 hours. How can I track this variable hour allocation within a single task? Much Obliged, Chris McTiernan Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69073
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    - %Work Complete vs. %Complete (Duration) in E.V. Calculations It seems to me that there is a lot of tension between the concept of duration and the concept of work in MSP. I imagine that MSP was originally designed to work with duration only and that work was an afterthought, which has still never been fully integrated into the product. MS, for example, allows you to enter and update duration and % Complete through the Task Information and the Update Tasks dialog box, but not Work & %WorkComplete! And MSP uses % Complete to calculate earned value (SPI, CPI) rather than %WorkComplete, which seems ludicrous. I really expected that they would use % Work Complete for this calculation, since earned value is all about WORK: planned, burned and earned. And %Work Complete can be a radically different value than the % Complete on projects at any given point in time. WORK is cumulative (a real sum) under the project summary task, whereas duration is not! As must be apparent, I've got some real frustration about the way MSP deals with these concepts, so if you know of any papers that elucidate this problem, I'd love to know about them. It seems like the MSP team has been avoiding or patching a problem when they really ought to completely revamp their approach to statusing projects. Why can't we enter actual work and remaining work through the Update Task dbox, for example. Is it that MSP code won't support it? Why not? Why do they keep asking about remaining duration instead of remaining work? I'd be glad to hear anyone's thoughts on the subject, as well as to hear about any MS white papers or papers from other sources that clarify what seems like a big problem to me. I may be wrong, but I smell a rat buried in the MSP woodwork. It may be that I just haven't grasped it yet. Very possible. I'm interested in hearing other ideas on this subject. Sincerely, Dave Oliver Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69067
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    - Project Finish Date How do I add a date constraint to an entire project? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69063
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    - Converting Project 2003 to Project 98 I have a plan (2003) that has calendars associated with tasks so that I can have a task start at a particular time of day. When I convert this to P98 (to share with someone), it strips the calendars out. Can you tell me how to avoid this, or remind me how to achieve the same effect in P98? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69062
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    - Troubleshooting Circular References Hi, all, My partner and I are crashing on a set of updates to a master with 24 or so subplans. In some cases, as we are trying to alter or fill in predecessors and successors, we get the "cannot accept entry, circular reference..." or words to that effect. And it seems nothing we can do makes a difference, including deleting all of the entries in both columns in that block of tasks (all the ones under a summary task). Upon attempt to link to a task external to that subplan draws the same error, but in neither cases does project identify what line number is the problem. Any ideas? We are in MSP 2003 std and MSP 2002 prof (1 of each), and are getting the same indication on both machines. TIA Rick Walker WA State Department of Corrections Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69056
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    - Forecasted finish date using partially completed task info I have a task whose Planned finish date is 7/15/04. As of 7/22, the task is marked as 75% complete. Is there a way to see what the projected finish date of the task, and the overall project is, assuming that there are dependant tasks to this task? I know that once I add the "Actual Finish Date" into the task information, thereby making the task 100% complete, dependant tasks will move out accordingly. What I am looking for, however, is a view/report to estimate what the projected Task and/or Project Finish date would be by calculating the partial completion of overdue tasks. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. thanks Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69054
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    - What can be done about the recent spamming? I read these groups several times a week and always find valuable inforamation that I am able to leverage in my own Project environments. I just noticed someone has decided to start being funny by posting answers that simply state "use primavera". Aside from ignoring it and hoping the adolesent finds a friend of the same or opposite sex (depending on preference) to divert their attention what can we do to eliminate the likes of this troll? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69050
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    - Wrong year shows on 'Print Preview' My project is scheduled in 2004/2005 but when I go to Print Preview it shows year 2002? any suggestions? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69044
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    - Outlook/Project Reminder hello! I'm trying to locate the three necessary files needed below in order to set a MS Outlook reminder from MS Project 2000. If anyone can tell me where I can get these I would appreciate it! December 10, 2001 18:15:51 9.0.2001.1210 6,164,480 Winproj.exe December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.1109 294,966 Atlconv.dll December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.703 782,389 Pj9od9.dll Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69041
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    - PRJ: Set Reminder Command Is Unavailable PRJ: Set Reminder Command Is Unavailable, I've located the help page on Microsoft, however, I can't get to the actual files to download, any suggestions/help? Date Time Version Size File name ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------ December 10, 2001 18:15:51 9.0.2001.1210 6,164,480 Winproj.exe December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.1109 294,966 Atlconv.dll December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.703 782,389 Pj9od9.dll Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69037
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    - gbui Error - cannot open Project Running MSProject 2003 w/ Office 2003 SP1 on WinXP SP1, and all latest updates. When I try to open Project, I get an error which begins: "The command is trying to use a web page from gbui://mainpage.htm/. You have not identified this site as a trusted site in Ineternet Explorer." Has anyone else received this and fixed it? What was the resolution? Nothing on MS Support as of Aug 3 16:00 GMT. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69034
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    - Is it possible to have a value list for a custom field to be filled by a table? Hi, I'm new to Project 2003/Project server 2003 and I was wondering if it is possible to have a value list for a custom field filled with values from a table in for example Access (or any other database). If yes, could anyone point me in the proper direction for additional info/reading. Thanks in Advance, Tonco Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69033
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    - Filter Hello All, I need a custom filter to show all Summary task that have a predecessor or successor. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance, Cheryl Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69032
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    - Resource entries Greetings: I am working with Project Professional 2003 without a server. As I enter resources, I find that I cannot include specific services and products. In this case, A lighting company offers spot lights, strobe lights, fog effects, etc. Each have different rates and some have different fixed setup fees in addition to the time of service. How can I use project to allow for this? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69031
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    - Using Project files over a WAN Anyone ever use project files over a WAN. We are using Project 2000. Pulling up files is no problem but when we go to make changes to the file (ie. CTL+X and CTL+C) project appears to hang. Everything works okay with Word, Excel and Access. It's just with Microsoft Project. Any thoughts? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69028
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    - Missing servername in notification mails Just as wanted the project server sends out the notification mails to all users. Unfortunately a few users get their notification mails from the server linking to their tasks looking like this: //{servername}/ProjectServer/... Note: The servername is not specified. Any ideas? Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69024
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    - Baseline Finish - test for null I am in the Customise Fields formula box, testing for blanks in Baseline Finish in an Iif statement. I am trying to test for a null value or blanks in Baseline Finish (or Baseline Start)in a Custom Formula. I have tried testing for NA,"NA", na,"na", isnull statements, isdate statements and others!!. Can't get it to work. Would appreciate your help. Am using Proj 2002 Std. Regards............Geoff Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69022
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    - Backup of global.mpt Hi to all, I would like to know how I can backup my global.mpt file, with all the forms and not only modules. Any suggestion? Gabriele Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69019
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    - Importing Resources From Excel to Tasks in Project 2003 I am trying to Import a set of Resources with Estimated Hours(Work) per Resource per Task from an Excel spreadsheet and match these resources with their respective Tasks in Project 2003. I am not having much success. I have tried merging the resources to the task lists but only one resource is assigned to the task even if there are multiple resources per task. Does anyone know how to overcome this? Basically i have a spreadsheet with the following; Task No.1 Resource1 8hrs Task No.1 Resource2 4hrs Task No.1 Resource3 2hrs Task No.2 Resource1 2hrs Task No.2 Resource2 2hrs and so on... I need to match the resources and work with the respective Task numbers. Thanks in advance. Tag: horizontal lines Tag: 69018

is it possible to cause project 2002 to print horizontal
lines on the gantt chart, for example after every 5 or 10
tasks, in order to make it easier, on a large project
document, to trace the line from the task name to the task
bar?

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Re: horizontal lines by John

John
Thu Aug 05 21:47:46 CDT 2004

Ron,
Yes. Go to Format/Gridlines and select "Gantt Rows". Ensure the line
type for "Normal" is set to nothing. Then select a line type at whatever
interval you want.

Hope this helps.
John

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Re: horizontal lines by rkohl1

rkohl1
Wed Aug 11 15:55:05 CDT 2004

john,
thanks - very helpful. knew there was probably a way to do it but couldn't
stumble into it.

ron kohl

"John" wrote:

>
> Ron,
> Yes. Go to Format/Gridlines and select "Gantt Rows". Ensure the line
> type for "Normal" is set to nothing. Then select a line type at whatever
> interval you want.
>
> Hope this helps.
> John
>

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