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Posted: 04 May 2005 02:31 AM PDT

Hi Sheila,

A way of achieving this is to compress the Project tasks by clicking the
little minus sign in front of its name, so that you have just the one
summary. Now click in the ID cell for that summary to highlight the whole
of the task. Now hold down the Ctrl key, then click in the ID cell again
and drag downward until a grey indicator line appears immediately under the
summary, and let go of the mouse (a bit fiddly but you'll soon get the hang
of it!). That should give you a second copy of the file. Compress this
second project as above. Now click and drag in the ID cells to select both
files. Copy as before to give you 4 copies. This will build exponentially
until you have the required number of copies ( about eight copy procedures).
It's probably quicker to do than to explain! :)

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



Sheila wrote: 

File Size Reduction

Posted: 03 May 2005 02:46 PM PDT

Hi Kevin,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ Item:
43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

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


Kevin wrote: 

Can I run Project 2003 on 98SE?

Posted: 03 May 2005 02:08 PM PDT

Hi Slikroad,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Alexander is correct. In this web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/project/prodinfo/standreq.mspx , you'll find
the Operating System has to be: Microsoft Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3
(SP3) or later, or Windows XP or later.

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



Alexander Barvinsky wrote: 

How do I show the baseline on all tasks in the Gantt Chart?

Posted: 03 May 2005 01:09 PM PDT

That's why I usually don't teach them that!

Material Costs

Posted: 03 May 2005 12:13 PM PDT

Dale:

Thank you so much. I was thinking it would use the cost per use field.
--
John Cello
John Cello Consulting
Communications For Business
www.johncelloconsulting.com


"John Cello" wrote:
 

Can a parent cost field summarize only FILTERED cost data?

Posted: 03 May 2005 12:02 PM PDT

Hello Danna,
Instead of using filters, try the Grouping feature :
Project / Group by / More Groups...

Gérard Ducouret

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Question: Problem publishing project to project2003server

Posted: 03 May 2005 09:51 AM PDT

Thanks Mike - I've already posted there, but received no reply. So I thought
I'd try here also...



"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

date field by default is "NA".

Posted: 03 May 2005 09:30 AM PDT

Thank you all for the advice

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Updating progress

Posted: 03 May 2005 03:58 AM PDT

Hi Paul,

Well, you got me to wondering so I fired up an old computer with Project 98
on it.

I created a project with a start date of 18 April 2005. When I check
Project Information, the Current date is today (3 May 2005) at 8:00 am.
When I set a status date (22 April 2005 ) it shows 5:00 pm.

The only changes I noted quickly between Project 98 with SR-1 and Project
2003 with SP-1 is the Update Project command.

In Project 98 even though I set a Status Date of 22 April 2005, the Update
Project command wanted to update tasks as of the current date (today). This
caused a problem when I used the Reschedule Uncompleted work button off the
tracking toolbar. All incomplete tasks were rescheduled to start today, not
25 April 2005.

The Reschedule uncompleted work to start after portion of the dialog box
defaulted to 8:00 am today in Project 98 and defaulted to the Status Date
and time (5:00 PM) in Project 2003. Personally I find having the manually
change the Update through to the Status date to be much more of an
irritation. My experience has been that frequently PMs are updating
progress as of a date (Status) in the past. They get the information on
progress from their resources on Monday or Tuesday and that progress (or
lack of) is through the Friday night of the previous week.

The only reference I can find to the similarities between the Current Date
and the Status date is that if the Status Date is set to NA, project will
use the current date. From help: "If you set the status date to NA, Project
uses the current date as the status date."

I don't think I have helped any, but I guess I would say this is not a bug -
in my opinion it's more logical. ;-)

Julie


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Status Indicator for Future Tasks

Posted: 03 May 2005 12:22 AM PDT

Hi Ris,
You are most welcome and thanks for the feedback.
I think that's the first time I've ever been called an angel!

Julie :-)
"Ris" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Disable automatic calculation on % complete

Posted: 02 May 2005 11:40 PM PDT

Hi Ris,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Project measures the %Complete based on the number of working periods
completed against the total number of working periods planned. The Duration
is just a measure of the working time between start and finish. Thus
Doration and %Complete are inextricably tied and you can't change one
without the other. (This, perhaps, is a good reason not to track staff
tasks within a project.) However, If you look at the % Work completed, it
could give you what want as it will remain correct irrespective of the end
date, provided the task is of Fixed Work type and changing the end date does
not introduce more or less work. That being said, it is not good practice
ever to insert start and finish dates as that is what Project is for - to
calculate the schedule for you. You enter the precedence link and the
Duration and Project will calculate the dates for you.

Another possibility is to create a hammock task that expands or contracts
with the controlling milestones - please see FAQ Item: 19. Hammock Tasks.

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


Ris wrote: 

Why doesn't SF relation work ?

Posted: 02 May 2005 09:47 PM PDT

Let me make sure I get this straight:
SF (Start to Finish)

I use it to link tasks to a predecessor like an Inspection.
The WBS doesn't necessarily have to be the actual sequence (i.e. This
comes before that, and that comes before the next thing)

So I use SF to link the end of a task to the beiginning a an
"Inspection" task that might actually be ten lines above the successor.


Am I abusing the spirit and integrity of the SF?

Trying to get scheduled hours for a particular time period

Posted: 02 May 2005 08:57 PM PDT

Hi John and Pratta,

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried the option you gave me: changing the
Major scale and Minor scale. Here I didn't really understand your guidelines
that 'taking the difference between the two values’. I was wondering whether
is that I have to do manually or is there any kind of filter available to do
this?

I am quite interested in trying the simple VBA code which John mentioned.

John, can you please let me know where I can find that code online, or is
there any discussion group that discusses about that. Please suggest.

Thanks again for you replies.

"John" wrote:
 

Installing Project on a Terminal Server

Posted: 02 May 2005 02:56 PM PDT

That's why it's the recommended solution: yes. Make sure you follow the
white paper configuration recommendations though. If you expose Terminal
Services to the Internet you need very careful security measures.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP
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