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import gantt chart from MS project2000 to MS excel2000 Microsoft Project

import gantt chart from MS project2000 to MS excel2000 Microsoft Project

import gantt chart from MS project2000 to MS excel2000

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 11:15 PM PDT

That one is not possible to do. You can send them the Gantt chart as an
image as Rob suggested but it's just that, a picture of the Gantt chart, and
not the Gantt itself. If team members need to update the project
information, and the only way to modify the Gantt is to change the
information it's based on, they need to have access to the actual project
file that contains that information and a license for MS Project or you need
to setup Project Server and Web Access. That's what those products are for.
FYI - the Gantt chart is not the end all and be all of project management
and simply generating Gantt charts is not what MS Project is all about. The
Gantt is simply a view - you could think of it as a report if you like - of
the underlaying project plan. Creating and managing the actual plan is what
Project is for and "modify gantt chart" falls under that umbrella.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Nor" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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don't familliar with MS project. 

How to Keep Resources???

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 01:11 PM PDT

Hi Mike:

Look up Resource Pools in help and the book you have. What you want to do
is common practice. In short, you create a project file that contains all
your resource information but usually no task information. You also have a
file for each project that contains the task information but usually no
resources. With *both* files open simultaneously and the tasks file the
current window, go to the Tools menu, Resource Sharing, and link the two
files together. Now the resource information from your resource pool file
will appear on the resource sheet of the tasks file.

How are things along the Wasatch these days? Lived in SLC downtown on East
2nd and then down in Holladay from '85 until '95. Did a lot of programming
work for Kennecott back in those days.


--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs





"Mike Haddon" <gov> wrote in message
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Subproject title in master project

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 12:43 PM PDT

Hi Rob,

I'm sorry to say, but through all versions I've been using, this is an
oddity.
For instance, setting the title property throughVBA doesn't work at all, you
have to set the name of the project summary task.
In many instances, manually as well, this is generally more "powerful" than
Title property.

Greetings,


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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Working back from Finish Date

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 10:18 AM PDT

Hi,

You do absolutely nothing special, input your project scheduled from start,
all links as usual.
Then show Latest Start and Latest Finish instead of Start and Finish.
HTH

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Overallocate resources - calendar = 8 hours, why are they over at

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 08:57 AM PDT

Go to the Tools Options settings, View tab, and select a date format that
include the time


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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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"Brian McCune" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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assigned by time of day? I can only see that they are assigned for a day -
not the hours of the day that they are working on them. How do I do that? 
work on one task for .8 hours? 
connected to the network (not storing it into an MS Project Server
database). 
4 
100%, 
scheduled 
that 
days 
2.5, 
work - 

Analyze Timescaled Data in Excel

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 07:15 PM PDT

Apparently all downloads for the 2000 version have been removed.

Sarah

My work week starts on Saturday Why won't Project do the same?

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 06:22 AM PDT

IMHO, the working time calendar designated as the Project Calendar does NOT
necessarily reflect the total hours that your business is in operation. The
Project Calendar governs the placement of tasks when resources have not been
assigned to them (either you haven't done it yet or won't be doing it for
some reason) and no task calendar (exception calendar) has been designated
for it. But that's not the whole story. Tasks only proceed when the
resource is present to work on it so when resources are assigned the task
moves in the calendar to follow the resource's availability. But a fully
detailed WBS breaks the project work down to the level of each task = 1
resource's work. So what does that mean? If "waxing widgets" is going to
take 24 hours of duration to complete, it is NOT going to proceed 24 hours
continuously, even if our company works 24/5. The company (drilling
platform, etc) may be running 24 hours solid, but the ONE GUY or ONE TEAM
that is *working together* on that single task will come to work at some
time, work for an 8 hour shift, go home, come back the next day and work on
it another 8 hours, go home, come back the next day and work the final 8
hours on it. If we has put that task in the project starting monday at 8am
and said its duration is 24 hours, the plan would show it finishing Tuesday
at 8am if the Project Calendar is the 24 hour calendar. But that's not what
is going to actually happen. What is really going to happen is the task
will get interrupted for the period the ONE GUY working on it is home
sleeping and it will really finish Wednesday at 5pm, not Tuesday at 8am and
that's the way I like to see it show up in the plan before I get around to
assigning resources. IF I actually need it to finish Tuesday I can assign a
resource on Day shift, then add another on Swing shift, and another on
Graveyard giving each of them 8 man-hours of work and 100% effort and
although its duration will not change, the combination of the resources
working hours will move its completion up to the required Tuesday morning.


--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Azer Nazair" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Adding resource changes task dates: WHY?

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 03:09 AM PDT

Thank you Mr. House. That fixed the problem and now I
understand how it works.

I am going to ask another question but in a new email so
everyone could read it.

Thank you again.

-Azer
 
typed listed there as 
listed for them in the 
the one you have 
Information menu? If I'm 
the resource column 
I've never understand 
Options entry, 
to "Automatically add new 
dates 
field. 
are 
FAQs 
books 
is 

Work Breakdown wizard

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 12:05 PM PDT

Thanks for your help, and the site.
 
chart from 
infomation as you want in a 
message 
when 
toolbar. 
of 
resources 

Printing Utility

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 11:32 AM PDT


Itzik,
Wow, binder, I haven't heard that term for quite a while. Don't know if
MS Binder will work with Project, did you try it?

It's not real clear what you mean by printing all 70 files in the same
view. Do you mean print all 70 files as one big file or do you mean
print each of the 70 files in the Gantt Chart view for example? If you
want to do the former, build a consolidated master by going to
Insert/Project and select all 70 files in the Insert Project Window. If
you want each file to print starting on its own page, just put a manual
page break at the beginning of each inserted file. If you simply want to
print each file separately, you could create a simple VBA macro to
automate opening each file, setting the view and printing. If all the
files are in one folder, you should be able to simply code in the folder
path and have the macro open all the files in that folder in succession.

These are just a couple of ideas. There may be other methods also.

Hope this helps.
John

Permanently change Current Date Line

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 10:38 AM PDT

John,
Thanks for the help. That's just what I've been doing, is running that
macro as I open each file when I work on it. Was just hoping to find
an easier way, as always. I hate doing repetitive tasks, thought that
was what I got the computer and the software for in the first place!
At least it's just a single click of a button.

David G. Bellamy
Bellamy Consulting

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Finish to Start Dependancies

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 08:34 AM PDT

Thanks Rob & Steve,

With your help I fixed the problem. I think that in some
moment as a mistake I typed -Crtl F9- and this change to
the calculation option from automatically to manually
without any notice.

I realize this when I follow the instructions from Rob to
press F9 to calculate so in that moment the bars were to
the right position either all the informaion from the
duration and start and finish dates.

Probably it was so obvious but never before I have had
this trouble and I didn't know that you can change the
automatic calculation to manually.

Thanks again.

Lou

 
chance manually enter 
instead of just 
ever, enter dates 
intend to establish 
entering a finish date 
you typed. This 
etc, that should push 
they finish later 
if constraints have 
of the task names 
there. If there are, 
the tool bar, go to 
constraint entry 
times in the start and 
you sure the 
start and finish 
something other than 
weeks or months 
Calculation tab, 
entered as 1 day 
page is set to 8, the 
hours of work 8-12 
are absolutely 
days duration over 
recalculation. 
from 
10 
the 
line 
dependencies 
of 
inadvertently 
move 
are 
finish 
there 
day 

Milestone only 0 day duration?

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 07:17 AM PDT

Hi,

I'm afraid this simply isn't true.
When you marka task as minestone throught Task Information, Advanced,
Project does not change the duration of the task. It simply does NOT. Start
and finish do not change.
It changes the graphical representation of the task to a lozenge but that is
just the graphical one and it can be changed through Bar Styles.

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm
32-495-300 620
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Project Center Tasks

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 01:28 PM PDT

Dale,

I discovered that I was using 'proposed' instead
of 'committed' as the booking type in my resource profile
after I corrected that I could then log onto Web
Access/Project Center, click on 'Taskings' and find the
tasks that I'd assigned myself to. Sorry if my original
email wasn't clear. 
only a single line 
project. 
message 
showing 

Problems with Office Assistant

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 01:12 PM PDT

I have some great ideas about things to do with the Office Assistant,
but I can't publish them in a restricted newsgroup.

Dave Bellamy


"Ryan" <manhattan.ks.us> wrote in message news:<phx.gbl>... 

Is Project 2003 compatible with Outlook 2003?

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 01:11 PM PDT

Not automatically, and it is a one-way path from Project to Outlook. The PM
can use the Workgroup tools to email task assignments from Project to a
resource's Outlook mailbox. Once accepted, the tasks are added to the
Outlook to-do list. The PM can request status updates but a resource simply
checking off a task as partially or fully complete in their Outlook task
list will not in itself generate an update back to Project. Instead, the
resource gets an email from Project via the PM that says essentially "You
were scheduled over the last <timeframe> to spend XXX hours doing YYY. How
many hours did you spend and how long do you estimate before it's done?" and
the PM then triggers an update to Project after reviewing the resource's
reply.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



"Sherry" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Why levelling move start date ?

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 07:01 AM PDT

Maybe you have a resource unavailable until after the start date of the project.

David G. Bellamy
Bellamy Consulting

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