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Can I set a watermark in the print background of Project 2003 Microsoft Project

Can I set a watermark in the print background of Project 2003

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 12:39 PM PST

Hi Patrick,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

I suggest you use File/Print Preview and then Page Setup where you can add a
Header or Footer to your prints.

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



Patrick wrote: 

Differnce between Save and publish all information?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 09:33 AM PST

If you use Microsoft Project Server for team collaboration, you can publish
the most current project information so that others (such as team members,
project managers, or other stakeholders) can have access to it.

Project information published to Microsoft Project Server can be viewed in
the Project Center page in Microsoft Project Web Access.
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"Susan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How to control order that resources are listed per task?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 09:03 AM PST

Thanks Davegb. Seems in the Assign Resources box (alt+F10) it keeps them in
alpha order, but you're right, when they display at the task level they seem
to be in order of assignment. I was looking in two places and it seemed
inconsistent.

"davegb" wrote:
 

Project timescale Half-Day?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:53 AM PST

Dave White wrote:
 

You could set your timescale to hours and set the count to 4. If you
have an 8 hour day this will be roughly half day.

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Convert the units of Work from Dys to Hrs?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:37 AM PST

It is essential to understand that duration and work are not the same
measure. Duration measures time but work measures sweat. That is why I
always try to refer to duration by "hours" but work by its proper unit
"man-hours." If you had 1 man working full speed for 1 day, you have 1
man-day of work. If you have 1 man working full speed for 10 days, you have
10 man-days of work. BUT, if you have 10 men working full speed for 1 day
you ALSO have 10 man-days of work. Work measures the total useful output
you're getting and duration measures how long it takes to get it.

The units is a percentage that reflects how much of the duration is getting
translated into useful work output and so indicates the rate that work is
getting done. The Prime Directive is Work=Duration*Units. If I work 8
hours duration at 100% units, I do 8 man-hours of work. But if I do 8 hours
of duration at 50% units, I only do 4 man-hours of work. Maybe I'm talking
with my buddy and not working at full speed. Or maybe I'm juggling two
things at once and can't really devote full attention to either of them and
as a result each of them takes me longer to complete than if I was working
on just that one thing. If I have 1 person doing 10 days duration (80
hours) at 2% units, he does 80*.02 or 1.6 man-hours of work, spread out over
the 10 days of working time. In other words it has taken him 10 days to
achieve what WOULD have only taken an hour and a half if he had devoted his
full attention to it. 11 people working 48 hours duration at 2% units each
is 48 * .02 * 11 or 10.56 man-hours of work - the team is taking over a week
to accomplish what should have taken them only an hour if they had got their
act together and pulled together as a team to get 'er done ASAP.
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"bradsaxon" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Viewing old MS Project files (pre 98) without the old software

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:15 AM PST

Nope - but you can probably get copy of P98 on eBay for just a few bucks.

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"pturocy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Problem with dates/durations on a plan containing imported data

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:05 AM PST

Hi Peter,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

On another tack, decimal durations often spring from a mis-match between
workin hours set in your calendars and those imposed by settings in
Tools/Options.../Calendar tab. You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default
Working Hours

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
Project MVP


Peter Rooney wrote: 

Calculated Field Overide?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 07:41 AM PST

Use two fields.
Example Text1, Text2
Use Text1 for manual entry
Put a formula in text2 which uses Text1 if it is not blank, otherwise use
the formula you wanted.

iif([Text1]<>"", [Text1], (whatever your formula is here))

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"Steve Scott" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How can I allow shared edit access to a Project file?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 07:19 AM PST

OK. ;-( Thanks, I'll start learning about linking .mpp files. ;-)

"Sarah" wrote:
 

Project allocating duration/resources

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 02:35 AM PST

Someone suggested creating a calendar showing Saturday and setting that as
the task calendar for that specific task and that's certainly a good way to
do it. As long as all resources have Saturday as a valid work day according
to their calendar you could also introduce a manual delay into the two who
are initially scheduled earlier in the week so they're moved to Saturday.
This is one of those special cases where manual methods take over.
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"Jack Shearer" <com> wrote in message
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Can I use workgroup email in project 2003

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 01:43 AM PST

Once the add in has been installed the workgroup feature works as previous.
According to Microsoft the next version will not have the email capacity at
all. Backward step in my view as many small businesses can't afford to run
Project Server

"ALEE" wrote:
 

how do I constrain a task to a day of the week

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:31 PM PST

thankyou, that's perfcect :)

Paul

"JulieD" wrote:
 

How do I enter calender dates from 1960 in Project?

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:21 PM PST

Interesting application. I wouldn't have chosen Project for this. Would
probably use Excel, or a roll of butcher paper!

Sharing resources from a subproject inside a master project

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 02:33 PM PST

Hi,

This sounds different from what I am used to.
Are you using Project Server? Or a very old version of Project like 4.X?

Greets,
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"flaproject2005" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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tracking work and cost independently -- bug in MSP 2003?

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 01:39 PM PST

I see what you mean. But if you do set the task to 100%, the total cost
drops out the original cost of the resource work and reverts to just the
value you have manually entered into the actual cost. Using your figures
and setting work to 10 hours and entering $2000 as actual cost, your second
table there, it does in fact show remaining cost to be 22500 and total cost
to be 24500. But if you now set the task to 100% complete and enter $5000
in Actual Cost, remaining cost become zero, actual cost is your $5000
manually entered, and total cost is also $5000. While the total cost is
bogus while the task is in progress, once the task is complete it appears to
resolve itself and get back to reality.

As an aside, even if you don't know which resources will ultimately be
assigned, I'd suggest listing generic resources - senior engineer,
technician, etc - and doing the resource assignments anyway. The project is
a triangle of scope, duration, and resources and leaving off any side means
you only have part of the picture on hand to work with. You may not know
which engineers you'll have but if you know certain tasks need those skills
and you know how many you have to draw on, you can schedule your project
accordingly and avoid rude surprises later when you have more work scheduled
in a certain time period than you have resources available who have the
required skills. You can always come back later and fill in the names when
they're known.
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"salilu" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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% work completed for subtasks

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 01:23 PM PST

First thing to check is to make sure automatic recalculation is turned on.
Tools menu, Options, Calculation tab.


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"Laney" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Don't laugh - need help w/basic reporting questions

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 12:23 PM PST

Great Matt. Glad to know you have your answers and thanks for the feedback.
Let us know if you have further questions, we'll be happy to help.

Julie

"Matt Kennedy" wrote:
 

Duration dates change when e-mailing to coworkers

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:35 AM PST

Can you give some more specific information - like what are the start and
ends dates and times of representative tasks in question and what is the
duration showing on each computer? What do the calendars have as the work
hours settings? Is automatic recalculation turned on (Tools, Options,
Calculation) with each computer?

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"Samantha" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Tracking Fixed Costs

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:23 AM PST

In the example you give, IMO the licenses and the servers would be materials
since they are incorporated in the project final deliverable. If I buy a
$5000 laptop to use as a workstation in our new network, the workstation is
part of the cost of the network and that makes it a material cost and all
$5000 is part of the project budget. It remains a part of the network after
the project is complete. OTOH, if I buy that laptop for an engineer to
carry around to various sites to test the network communications as we do
the installation it, its use in the project terminates when the project is
finished and we can then use it for other things in our organization or even
sell it if we wish. Its purchase price is not part of the project cost but
the portion of its value that is used up over the course of the project
would be. If we buy it for $5000 and resell it for $3000 6 months later
after our network is up and running, the cost to the project is $2000. We
can actually track that sort of cost by treating it as a work resource,
weird as that sounds. If our laptop will depreciate $2000 in its first year
of ownership, its "salary" is $2000/year or about $1/hr. If we use it for
10 hours setting up the router in location X, the cost to our project for
the laptop in that task is $10. That doesn't represent the total cost to
the firm but it does represent the portion of that cost that is part of our
project's burden. The rest of it has to be accounted for elsewhere.

In any case I would never track it as a task against which you book time.
Tasks are always, without exception IMHO, observable physical activity of
some sort. Rather it is either a material resource that is consumed by
tasks, a work resource that does work in tasks, or perhaps part of the
project overhead itself and carried as portion of the fixed costs for the
tasks or project phases where it is used.

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"ProjectUser" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Cannot change % complete after finish date has passed

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:15 AM PST

It sounds like what you are calling "tasks" are really summary tasks - they
are in bold and have sub-tasks indented underneath them, right? The real
tasks are the sub-tasks and that's where all the work takes place. Most of
the properties of summary tasks are calculated values only and things like
their start, end, and duration cannot be edited directly. The summary task
is complete when all of its subtasks are complete and not before. The start
and end of a summary are determined by the start of the earliest subtask and
the finish of the latest ending subtask.
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"Samantha" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Exporting a project into Visio as a flow chart

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:09 AM PST

What's wrong with the network diagram? That *is* a flowchart of the project
process if your WBS has been done correctly. If it's not, you really need
to re-examine the identification and linking of the tasks in your project
file before doing anything else because your WBS probably isn't a valid
model.

You didn't mention which version of Visio you're using. Since Visio 2000,
there has been a macro that imports Project mpp files and creates Gantt
charts, PERT charts (network diagram), or calendars in Visio from the data.
Unfortunately it was broken in Visio 2000 and I've never seen it work
properly in that version - the problem is in Visio itself and not dependent
on the Project version. But the good news is that it was fixed in
Visio2002/XP and later and works fine in the more recent versions. You'll
find it under Macros in the Visio Tools menu.

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Steve House [MVP]
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"Rachmur" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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task type definition

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 07:45 AM PST

Probably should be "waxing fids" instead. Fids have to be nice and smooth
and well-polished. LOL


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"davegb" <com> wrote in message
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Can I Change the Calucation for Percentage Complete?

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 07:25 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Laney" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Laney,
I'm not sure what you mean by "high-level task" but I assume you mean a
Summary Line. Also when talking about percentage complete I assume you
are referring to "% Complete" and not "% Work Complete" or "% Physical
Complete" (later versions of Project). I also don't know what you mean
by "least percentage complete" value. A Summary Line does not show the
least percent complete of its subtasks. Rather, it calculates % Complete
by the formula:
Summary % Complete = (sum of subtask Actual Durations)/(sum of subtask
total Durations) * 100%

The validity of % Complete at a Summary Line is always of questionable
value although I personally believe the formula shown above is more
valid than an average value would be. For example, what if one subtask
is 2 weeks in duration and all other subtasks are 2 days in duration?
More than likely the 2 week task is of more importance but in an
averaging scheme, its weight would be the same as the lesser tasks.
However, you can use any formula you wish to calculate % Complete for a
Summary Line. You will probably have to use VBA because a formula in a
custom field wouldn't know how many subtasks to include in the averaging
equation.

Now that you've go my take on the averaging method, If you still want to
pursue an averaging technique for % Complete at a Summary Line and need
help with the VBA code, post again and we can help.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Some of the Summary bars in the file contain different dates!!

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 06:41 AM PST

You might check to see that the file is sorted correctly. Do this from
project menu and sort by ID.

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Resource Group Question

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 06:37 AM PST

You are welcome Roman. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Roman Benko" wrote: