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Any way to change which symbols appear in the legend? Microsoft Project

Any way to change which symbols appear in the legend? Microsoft Project

Any way to change which symbols appear in the legend?

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 08:52 AM PST

Colin,
To change the legend, change the "Name" field of the symbol in the Bar Style
dialog box.
If you want to hide a bar style in the legend while keeping the symbol in
the Gantt Chart, add an "*" as the first character of this "*Name"

Gérard Ducouret

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Project useful for production scheduling?

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 08:31 AM PST

Thanks, Dave!

"davegb" wrote:
 

Multiple Versions of Project

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 07:15 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Steve Scott" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Steve,
Yes. I have those same three versions installed and running under
Windows XP Home for basically the same reason - so I can respond to
posts from an assortment of users on this and other newsgroups.
Generally I do not experience problems having all three versions on a
single PC.

John
Project MVP

Automated RAG Status Formula

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 07:13 AM PST

You're welcome Scott. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Steve Scott" wrote:
 

Tailored calendar view in Project

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 07:09 AM PST

Yes, sorry. About the closest thing to flagged fields is the "marked" task
choice, but you only have the choice of formatting marked tasks differently.

Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Ridgeroad" wrote:
 

How to account for 2 similar resources where one works faster than other

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 04:50 PM PST

There really is no satisfactory way to take into account slight differences
in efficiency like that. I'm not really sure it matters in a context such
as you describe anyway. When you put two resources together on a task like
that, it implies that they are working together as a unit, a team,
interacting with each other on the task. Thus the efficiency that governs
progress will be the efficiency of the team and not its individual members.
IF they are dividing up the work of the task and working on their portions
independently, so A finishes his part in 4 days while B does his is in 6,
for example, you really have two different, albeit similar, tasks and they
should be listed separately in the plan. Remember, you always should try to
have the resources you plan to put on the task in mind when you estimate the
durations in the first place.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

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How do I get a global view of all projects in Project 2003

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 03:19 PM PST

Hi Mark,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Try using a master file as I explained in my series on Microsoft Project in
the TechTrax ezine, particularly #17 & 18, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site, :)
Thanks.)

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



Mark Peterson wrote: 

Specify different allocations % during a task?

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 02:15 PM PST

Work contours are described in the help files. One of the easiest ways to
see how they work is to set up a little experimental plan with one task,
maybe 10 days duration, put a resource on it, switch to the usage views,
apply the various contours and see how the hours get distributed. BTW, task
type matters there so if I have a task with 10 days duration that's fixed
work and apply a bell contour, the duration goes to 3 weeks. OTOH, if the
task is fixed duration and I apply the contour, the total work hours changes
while the duration remains at 10 days.

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

"fxs" <com> wrote in message
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Gantt Chart Wizard Formatting

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 12:55 PM PST

Hi Glenn,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

The wizard is a quick way to format, but it does not cover everything. Try
Format/Bar Styles../Text tab - it's all there for you

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

Glenn wrote: 

Undo?

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 12:17 PM PST

Nope - there is only one level of undo and it is hard-coded and there's
nothing that can be done about it except hope it will change in some future
release. Sorry about that.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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Custom WBS Codes

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 11:27 AM PST

In article <#phx.gbl>,
"fxs" <com> wrote:
 

fxs,
For a solution, see me response to your other post.

John

Show/Hide specific WBS Elements

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 10:55 AM PST

In article <#phx.gbl>,
"fxs" <com> wrote:
 

fxs,
To answer your basic request I kept the code as simple as possible. If
it is run a second time, the WBS prefix will get more "00s", and the
code will need to be modified to handle WBSs for added tasks.

If you have a little VBA experience, modifying the code to be more
flexible would be a good exercise. If you do not have any VBA experience
but would like to get the added functionality, write me direct and tell
me what you want the WBS to look like (i.e. default WBS, a custom WBS
structure, etc.). For example, if a task is added between existing WBSs,
should the WBS renumber from the added task on (Project default) or
should existing tasks retain their original WBS?

John

Date Calculation

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 10:49 AM PST

There're several issues to be explored here. Remember duration is the
amount of working time units designated by the calendar between when work is
first performed on a task and when it ends. It may or may not be
continuous. If a task starts Dec 07 and goes for 5 days, then is
interrupted for a few weeks (perhaps the holidays are shown as non-working
time, a 2 or 3 week stand-down) and then resumes, working for another 5 days
and then it's finished sometime in January the elapsed time is more than a
month but the duration is still only 10 days because the time off in the
middle for the holidays doesn't count.

An alarm bell is going off when you say you "edited the start and end times"
for the tasks. When you edit either one you inevitably establish
constraints on the task, constraints that are rarely justifed. If you edit
the start, you get a Start No Earlier Than constraint. If you edit the end,
you get a Finish No Earlier Than constraint. If you edit BOTH, the
constraint you get is determined by the order you do the edits. BUT, you
really shouldn't be doing either one! The whole reason Project exists is to
calculate the schedule for you - you don't tell it the dates where it should
schedule the tasks -- you tell it what needs to be done, the relationships
between the tasks, the resources you have to do them with, and how long each
should take and then it tells YOU the dates you can have them on, a whole
different paradigm.

I'd suggest you be very, very careful about using the 24 hour calendar as
you are. Doing so implies that when your 60 day task begins, work on it
never stops for over 2 months, the resources doing the work never sleeping,
never eating, never getting a day off for that entire period of time.
People simply don't work that way. The project calendar should describe the
hours during the day that work will take place on a typical task as
scheduled for a typical resource. While your company may very well work
24/7, a single person most certainly does not and the tasks should usually
describe the work done by a sigle person or a team working together as a
unit. If your "standard" shift is M-F, 8-5 that should be your project
calendar even if you really have multiple shifts working in the aggregate
24/7. If you have a task "dig a hole" and you assign that task to Joe
Dayshift, the hours that Joe works are the only one's that matter - it is
totally irrelevant that there is also Bill working Swing shift and Fred
working Graveyard, they're not digging the hole, only Joe is, and the
calendar that governs the scheduling of that task should be Joe's work
schedule and Joe's alone. The project calendar governs task placement's
until you assign resources and so, IMHO, it should be the work shift of a
typical resource, not the company as a whole.

HTH

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



"Cindy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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watermark in project

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 08:19 AM PST

John

Thanks, I would rather set an empy six pack of brew on it after beating the
bushes...

"John" wrote:
 

per diem rates

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 02:19 AM PST

This is true... which is why I generally use this type of resource as a
"material" resource when tracking costs to this level. Sound advice!

Thanks,

Ian

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Update Data from Excel

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 07:11 PM PST

Glad you made it.
The later versions of project have a wizard to walk you through this
confusion.


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-Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project

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