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    - Problems installing Project 2003 Purchased copy of project 2003. Insert CD, install begins. Error message "Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writable". Have no idea what that means. I haven't specified anything - it's on autorun and works fine on another machine. Online help beyond useless - apparently, on the drop down list, I've bought something that does't exist, and unless you can click on product names and enter product numbers - none of which it allowed me to do as I couldn't identify it - you end up in a somewhat circular and very frustrating loop. Any suggestions? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62134
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    - Overallocation problem Hello, I am entering tasksthen assign them to an individual. Forexample when the start dates of tasks are same. Ms project occupies same hour for two tasks. It puts 2 hour work for example 11:00 a.m. I do not understand how to solve it. Please help. Burcu Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62131
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    - Working Day Report For Individuals Hello, From change working time submenu, I put meeting times fýor individuals as non working times. I want to obtain working time reports for individuals. How can I do that? Cheers, Burcu Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62129
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    - Hello I am currently using bootvis to attempt to resolve an issue I have in XP. When boot, I am getting a delay of 93 seconds after I log in. Bootvis shows me that there are several processes initializing after login. How can I identify which of thwse processes are essential, since they do not appear in any startup program, such as Startup Cop, TweakXP Pro, or others. any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62127
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    - Combining Multiple Projects Hi All I am new to MS Project and I am using Project 2003. I have a question about combining multiple projects. Is it possible to have the tasks from each project (or subproject) shown in a different colour, or displayed with a prefix (e.g.:project 1 task name, project 2 task name) when viewed in calander mode? Thanks Robert Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62126
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    - project server Im trying to set up ms project pro 2002. It keeps asking about the path for the project server. I found that project server spooler but cant figure out if thats what I need. Does that allow me to share what project is showing? I also have an Intranet for the office that I would like to share these projects on. Last question, Is there a way to connect ms project to another database and have the other database update the time spent on a project? ODBC connectivity is what Im looking for here. Am I looking at the right software to do this? Brad Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62119
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    - MS Project 2002 I would like to know if MS Project 2002 is compliant with Office 2003? If there are any conflicts between the two? Thanks. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62115
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    - Actul Work / Work - changes duration Hi I've noted that if I go back to a task and try to change the hours MS Project provides a warning "The resource is assigned outside the original dates for task 1 ... blah blah in project. The duration of the fixed-duration task will change to accommodate the resource assigned." In my project MS Project assigns resource automatically. Therefore, if a fixed-duration task for a period of 1 day requires 16 hours MS Project will assign 2.0 / 200%. However, if I try to change the number of hours or if the actual working time is greater, MS Project plays with the duration rather than the resource allocation. I'm sure this is a standard issue, and I should like (Steve suggests in my previous post) know more about the resource on the project... But given the task is fixed-duration, I would have assumed the resource allocation would increase accordingly to ensure the completion date is not compromised. I'm doing something wrong (again)? TIA to all who replay - Vers Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62112
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    - Date Formulas First I appreciate all of the tips I have picked up here along the way...been a lurker for quite some time. Now the real deal, I'm trying to write a formula to generate a day calculation based on the finish date of a task and the start date of "task 1". Basically, imagine task one as being a contract award date in its finish field and I want all of the subsequent tasks to calculate their finish dates into the number of days since task ones finish...a "days after contract award" field basically Any help Thanks, Mike Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62111
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    - Recurring Tasks without a set pattern I am wanting to create a recurring task that does not have a set pattern, like Tuesday and Thursday one week then only Monday the next, Wednesday the next, etc. Is there a simple way of doing this without creating several tasks? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62107
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    - insert projects Can you insert "part of a project"? maybe by filtering Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62093
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    - Updating Actual Work Hi- I work in a software development company. We have a custom-developed software package (called BTR) to track enhancement requests/bugs for our software products. Our developers log the time they spent working on the enhancement requests/bugs into this custom system. We log out time in here because there are financial reports that this system generates for costing purposes. For each new release of our software, we take the list of enhancements/bugs from BTR and create an MS Project file to manage the project. Each enhancement/bug fix is a task in MS Project. Every week we run a report out of BTR to get the actual values worked on the different enhancements and hand update the actual work values in the Project file. There has got to be a better way. 1) Can MS Project import actual work values from a text file? 2) Can you access the Project database programmatically to add the actual work data? Also, if option 2 is the better method, can someone recommend some good resources on MS Project development? Thanks! Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62088
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    - Wrong Finish Dates? I'm running project 2000. I've got a resource that I have set up as 40% available (using Max Units on the resource sheet). I assign this resource to a 40 hr task. Project computes the finish date as if the resource was 100% available to the project. What am I doing wrong? I've tried levelling, but that doesn't seem to help. Thanks Pat Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62086
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    - Tutorial I recently upgraded from MS Project 2000. What happened to the self-paced tutorial? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62084
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    - Wrong work in summary tasks I have installed Project 2000 and I have the following problem: In summary tasks the calculation of the work does not consider the allocation of resources to the own task summarize (but, it does it for the calculation of the costs). Also, the calculation of working hours for the global of the project is erroneous (by excess, more of the double of the real one). I've installed the SP1 but the problem continues. Any idea? List of Sw: Windows XP Professional Office 2000 Project 2000 Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62083
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    - MS Project 2000 Flaw???? Ok, I am familiar with MS Project and all but I came across an interesting problem. I wish I could post a screen print on here to show the problem but since I can't I'll try to describe it. I like to keep my scedhules a flexable as possible so I try to keep all tasks as start as soon as possible and just link them. That way if I increase time for one task the entire schedule moves out. Now, I have run into a problem were I'll have to use a start on date on one task and the program does not move the rest of the tasks out like it should. I have the tasks linked but the dates do not change based on the previous task that is contrainted to start on a certain date. Has anyone else found this problem? Best Regards, Jason Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62078
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    - pjdbcomm.dll blocked Hello, I am attempting to setup MS Project Server 2003 with MS Project Pro 2003. I followed the configuration/installation for both Project and MS Portal Server 2003. Both are setup on a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server. All seemed to go well, I can hit the Project Server web interface from a remote pc and perform admin tasks without errors, however when I try to connect to the server from project, I am getting the following error: The following file(s) have been blocked by the administrator: /isapi/pjdbcomm.dll I checked the file permissions and all users have read/read&execute on the file and full permissions on the isapi directory. I tried to search the help and could not find an error for this. Can anyone elaborate on this to tell me what I am doing wrong? Thank you, Nathan Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62077
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    - duration display in real days Is there a way to display duration in real (elapsed) days but enter in working days? I am using project 98. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62071
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    - Project 2000 CD Hi, Just bought a copy of MS Project 2000 at an action, and it has the box and license but no CD. Where can I order the media only for this software and how much does it cost? based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Thanks, Leon Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62070
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    - beginner: difficulties with timeline I have entered all my tasks into Project 2000, entered my resources and allocated them to the tasks. I also set a few predecessors for those tasks that rely on others to be completed first. What I expected was that Project would start a new task "as soon as possible" without overallocating resources. But instead of doing that, all my resources are hopelessly overallocated. I didn't change the start-times or end-times, all I changed was the duration of each task. Any idea where I'm going wrong? Thanks for your help. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62063
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    - Dependencies between different projects I am trying to create dependencies between differnet projects. This seems to work fine if the projects exist within the same folder. However, if a project exists within a different folder, I cannot seem to get it to work. Any ideas? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62061
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    - actual hours appearing on weekend days Hi all Running Project Pro 2002, Project server and PWA I have accepted the standard working calendar of Mon - Fri, but have made slight modifications to the hours as we work 9 - 5.30. My chaps are entering their hours via PWA. I have requested that they enter their hours weekly. For some reason now the actual hours they report are appearing on weekend days, I checked with the chaps who told me that some of their actual hours were more than the estimated hours, so that may be the reason. Whatever the reason is, is there a way to stop the hours appearing on the weekend? Many thanks lynne Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62059
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    - Findnext problem Hello, I want to find start dates=23/02/2004.However Ms Project finds only one of them and ignores others. Why? why? why? Burcu Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62055
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    - Date format Hello, I want to change format of dates form Fri 20.02.04 to 20/02/2004 in start field etc. Can you help me? Thanks Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62050
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    - Table Relationships I'm planning to develop a set of custom reports using MS Project data exported to an MS Access database. Can anyone tell me where I can find a database diagram that defines the table relationships in MS Project 2002? Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62048
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    - task completion Using P2003 & PWA I am using hours logged per day on a task. As soon as the schedule (hours) equal the (actual hours) then tasks are considered completed and gets a tick next to the item. Is there any way that I can prevent the completion taking place eg. for a monthly job catcher project. This task is amongs others that do have determined hours tasks. I put another custom column in to indicate a percentage of the work complete to indicate to me when the task is complete but are there any other ways? Any help would be much appreciated Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62047
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    - Hyperlink usage Using Project 2003 & PWA Is it possible to use the hyperlink without Sharepoint installed ? When I hyperlink a doc the link is displayed the normal underscored way but clicking on it and nothing happens. Any ideas ? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62045
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    - Older file version, need conversion utility Hi, I'm using project 2000, and I've got a file (filename.mpp) an when I try to open it, it says: files prior to project 98 are not able to be opened. Is there a utility out there that will convert it for me? Regards Matt Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62044
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    - Resource Allocation - Main or Sub Tasks Hi All, I am new to MS Project and want to ensure when I set up my project it provides the maximum scheduling / budgeting / reporting flexibility to meet with the changing demands of the project I have a theoretical question about the most flexible method to assign resource. I understand the resource can be assigned as follows: ID Task Duration Resource 1 Create Post 5 Person 1 [1.0], Person 2 [3.0], Person 3 [1.0] The same scenario can be represented as main / sub-tasks: ID Task Duration Resource 1 Create Post 5 1.1 Create Post 1 Person 1[1.0] 1.2 Create Post 3 Person 2[3.0] 1.3 Create Post 1 Person 3[1.0] Can someone please describe / clarify the pro's & con's of both methods and what impact (if any) both methods have on scheduling / budgeting / reporting? When is it best to use one against the other - does it really matter or is it personal preference? I'd appreciate any insights from the NG. Thank in advance - Vers Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62041
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    - task duration = 15 min Hi, Active in the meeting industry, I am confronted with projects that are very intense over a few days. Intense is , that I need to make tasks duration of only 15 min. This is possible but inserting a task with minutes as a nessecary duration is not easy/ MS projects (at least in its stantards settings) is not flexible for this. Does anybody use MS project for this purpose (tasks with minutes as duration)? Is the user interface extentable with minutes as timeline? any help is welcome paul Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62040
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    - Linking with Lotus notes Hi, I am looking for some help in linking project with lotus notes. I am using MSP2002 and Lotus notes R5 and my OS is Win2K professional edition. I cannot access the lotus notes address book through tools\workgroup\assign task option Can anyone help me with this. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62034
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    - Baseline I'm a Project 2002 user, I did a plan for this year, when I add the actual work hours on the Task Usage View, I have a problem of changing finish date field for the same row. Is there any setting there to stop this changing and can I copy the baseline finish date column to finish date column. Regards,,, Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62029
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    - Microsoft Pro 2002 Client against Project Server2003 Hi, we are trying to configure for a customer a mixed environment with Project Pro 2002 on the client side and Project Server 2003 on the server side. After installing and having changed the Global Permission to allow connection from Project 2002 we are trying to configure the clients, when we connect from Project Pro to Project Server we get the following message: Cannot connect to Project Server. Project server was unable to Microsoft Project Server was unable to process the specified enterprise resource. Can anyone help with suggestions? Thanks in advance Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62026
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    - % Complete Here is my work sheet: ID Resource Name Units Work Baseline Act.Work Rem.Work 1 Proj Mgmt 0.25 8h 4h 0h 8h 2 Prog Mgmt 0.63 21h 15h 0h 21h 1) Populated the tasks in the resource work window below the gantt chart (split screen) 2) Updated the tasks in the tasks usage to show an increase from the baseline and to ensure durations did not change (as per previous post) Question: 3) Rem. Work (does this "remaining work") in the resource work view is still 8h / 21h respectively. How or where do I input the actual physical hours done. When I inputed the data in the Task Usage I assumed this is what I was doing - but as there are still Rem. Work I must be incorrect. I have a feeling I am getting confused what screens are executing which task. Having updated the Task Usage sheet with over-runs (more hrs than scheduled) I expected to see the '% Complete' bar activated on the Gantt Chart. I am assuming the Task Usage is another plan of task as opposed to the executed time on tasks. Thanks in advance to all whom respond. Smiles - Vers Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62019
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    - Actual work altering task durations Hi All, When I populate the actual work complete there will be ocassions when it is greater than the baseline causing a variance (over budget). The work column increase to reflect the actual data [I understand this]. However, I do understand why the above would alter the duration / period of the task from 5 days to 5.35 days especially as I have chosen the task type is 'fixed duration'. In one scenario, I have a task requiring two departments, each consumes 40 hrs across a period of 5 days. Project automatically populates the resource requirement (this is fine as I do not know the max resource in the department). I have tried checking / unchecking the effort driven option when testing but it makes no difference. I would appreciate any assist or guidance on this matter. TIA - Vers Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62014
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    - Basic Time Tracking for Software Dev. Projects Microsoft Project is driving me crazy - please help. I would like to setup MS Project for tracking time for our Software Development Projects. This is what I want: - I want to assign tasks to developers - I want them to know which tasks are assigned to them. - I want to estimate the time for each task and set this estimate in stone. - I want the developers to track their time on each task on a daily basis. For example, on monday, they worked on TaskA, 4 hours. Task B, 4 hours. - I want them to tell me when they are done with a particular task. - I want to see that they worked MORE or LESS than the original estimate. - I want to print a report at the end of each week that shows: All of our active projects Who worked on these projects How many hours they worked on these projects on SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT THAT'S IT!!! How do I do this!? Here is what I tried: We have a Project Server, Sharepoint, etc. I open up the MS Project Fat Client and I follow the very nice wizard. I create a project, tasks, assign resources from the server, etc. I have time tracking set to: "Hours of work done per day or per week" The tasks I create are effort driven. I set the duration for "4 days". I assign myself as the resources for the tasks. I create a baseline. I publish everything to Project Server. I go to Project Web Access. I click on "Tasks" to see the Timesheet view. I see that I can edit the "Remaining Work" field and the "Actual work" for each day. Everything is very, very confusing from here. Project Web Access automatically "checks off" the task as complete when the developer exceeds the time estimate. Sometimes Project automatically adjusts the "Work" field. All of a suddent the Fat Client pops up and shows some information that makes no sense... I want to make this as simple as possible. I want to remove unecessary, confusing fields and features. BOTTOM LINE: What are the settings I need? On the fat client: - What columns should I show on the "Gant Chart" View? - What columns should I show on the "Task usage" View? - What columns should I show on the "Tracking Gantt" View? On Project Web Access: - What columns should I show on the "Timesheet" View? - What columns should I show on the "Gantt Chart" View? - What columns should I show on the "Updates" View? - What columns should I show on the "Project Center" Is there a set of Views I can just download and install? This application is crazy. We are a standard software development shop. Why is this so difficult? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62012
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    - Row Height Issues I couldn't agree more with Patricia - there is something here that is very fickle about MS Project I inherited a project from another manager and I have put together a schedule for another project that I am starting, so we have two separate MS projects (Gantt) In the project that I have put together, I can see 21 rows and it's just how I like it; in the one I inherited - 11 rows. I have tried modifying text size but it serves to make it illegible. The true variable I would like to change here (as I am sure is the case with Patricia) is the % of the cell that the text takes up. It seems that there is a vast amount of room in the cell for the text to fit, but the program somehow insists that the row height be 2.5 times the height of the text. So, ultimately, yes, changing the font size does allow a slight reduction in row height, but you suffer horribly in legibility Does this clarify things for anyone who would be able to help Thanks Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62011
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    - Resource Theory - Variant of previous question If I have a project that will require 4 men onsite for 8 hours to complete a project in one day, and I enter 32 hours as the required labor at their company rate, Project expands my timeline to appear that the task will take 4 days, when it will only take one. I will be using this company (furniture installers) several times during the project, each with a different labor force that day depending on the scope for that phase. What is the best way to enter this. Thanks in advance for your help - I am new at project and have searched all the help files unsuccessfully for an answer. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 62005
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    - Jack D - Message unavailable Jack D - your last 4 responses are saying "Message unavailable". I rerally want to see your responses. Did you do something different to cause this, or is there a problem with the board right now? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61995
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    - ID not unique in Master Plan How do you set the predecessor of a task to be the task from another sub-project in the same master project plan? For example, I have sub project 1 and 2 both linked in master project A. Since the ID numbers are not unique in the master plan, how can I get a task from sub-project 2 to have a predecessor from sub-project 1. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61990
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    - Several Questions I teach MS Project basics (among other MS applications) and had some questions in my class today that I am hoping someone can help me with. Thanks in advance. 1. One of my students wants to be able to track the changes that she makes to her project plan...and to get as detailed as entering reasons why she has made those changes. Any suggestions? 2. Is there a way for the project manager to define tasks as "critical" (different from using Project's definition of critical)? Even if is is color coding specific tasks? 3. How can I track "extra" costs incurred during the project? For instance, I have a task in my project to set up a cash register system in my store. I hire an outside company to come in and do this. When they come, the register is not there yet. They charge me a fee just for showing up. Yet the task is not yet complete and they will still charge me the original cost when they come back to do the work. Where can I track this. Thanks! Kristin Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61986
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    - Unmodifiable cells in Microsoft Project I've got a MS project file that I must modify. Some of the fields are grayed out and cannot modify them. These are not summariy fields, but actual cells on the lowest level rows. Any ideas? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61985
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    - "Work" field in Resource Usage View Something is happening that I really don't understand and can't find anything written on it: I have a large (>1000 lines) Master project - all subprojects included unlinked - When I show the Resource Usage View, the left panel shows Name (resource, then task) and a column for 'Work'. The right panel shows hours planned (by month in the case I'm working). Some of the Resources show Work on the same line that is the sum of work in all the tasks assigned. Some resources show work assigned, but 0 (zero) hours in the 'Work' summed for the resource. Some resources show some hours in 'Work'assigned, but clearly not as much as is entered in the tasks. I checked and Calculation is on Auto. Any help? jlb Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61982
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    - Weekends in calendar view Is there anyway to have weekends grey shaded in the calendar view, yet still have them be working days? So far, I've only found either gray and non-working or white and working. Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61976
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    - Drop down box dissappeared I created a spreadsheet and used several Validation lists with drop down boxes. I then decided to add this particular spreadsheet to another work book using Edit, Move or Copy sheet. I moved the sheet to a another open work book. I lost all my drop down boxes although the lists are still there. Is there anyway to get the drop down boxes back? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61973
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    - Filters I need to be able to combine the "Should Start By" filter with a Less than filter. How can I do this. I need to combine the 2 filters into one filter so that I can save the information into another format. I know how to do the latter, but need direction on how to create one filter to handle these 2 tasks Any ideas? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61968
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    - Linking resource pool to Master or Sub Project? I want to use a master project with separate sub-projects for each development release I am managing. Since these releases overlap, I can add new releases and drop off releases that are now close. I also use a common resource pool. All of the sub- projects will use the same resource pool file. Do I link the master project file to the resource pool? Which would make each sub-project file automatically be linked to the pool file. Or do I need to link each individual sub- project to the resource pool? Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61967
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    - replace path name with file name Am using Windows XP and Project 2000. In my Master Schedule, while in the Resource Usage view, my column heading of "Project" that I included in front of the Resource Name heading lists the full path of the file referenced. I 'd like to change this so only the file name appears not the full path. How do I change this setting? /ray Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61965
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    - Use of hyperlinks I am using MS Project 2002. I do not have the Proj server. I need to link multiple docs to a task. There is only one hyperlink field. Is there a way, other than inserting a task item for each document, to display multiple hyperlinks per task item? I could use the notes field, but I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. It is much easier to get people to participate if things are easily accessed. Any advice is welcome Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61963
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    - showing duration in edays I am working in microsoft project 98. I would like to show the durations in elapsed (real time) days, not working days. Is there a way to do this? Thanks! Tag: project 2003 on Win98? Tag: 61961

I have a really old machine that's running Win 98 - I'd
prefer to not upgrade the OS, but I'd like to buy MS
Project, the current version of which appears to only
support Win2K or XP. Does anyone know if it's possible to
install and run Project 2003 on a Win98 machine?

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Re: project 2003 on Win98? by Jonathan

Jonathan
Tue Feb 24 09:06:51 CST 2004

Win98 is not supported.

Zwieb wrote:

> I have a really old machine that's running Win 98 - I'd
> prefer to not upgrade the OS, but I'd like to buy MS
> Project, the current version of which appears to only
> support Win2K or XP. Does anyone know if it's possible to
> install and run Project 2003 on a Win98 machine?

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