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How do I set my file to fill an 11x17 page? Microsoft Project

How do I set my file to fill an 11x17 page?

Posted: 20 Jun 2005 10:25 AM PDT


Hi buildingstuff ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

File/Print Preview/Page Setup/Page tab and Paper Size.

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

wrote: 

Can I change duration of tasks from days to weeks on a project%3f

Posted: 20 Jun 2005 07:27 AM PDT

Hi,

Just for ythe sake of precison, it is only possible to "WORK" with Project
in minutes, the only time unit it uses for calculation.
It is possible to SHOW time values in other units or evn ti ENTER time in a
differnt unit, a Mike explaine.

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list selection button on field title

Posted: 20 Jun 2005 04:58 AM PDT

This did help. Thank you, Julie.

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Jack


"JulieS" wrote:
 

task field list arrows

Posted: 20 Jun 2005 03:35 AM PDT

Disregard this question. I've reposted the question with better clarity.
--
Jack


"Jack" wrote:
 

How can I set & use a date beyond 12/31/2049?

Posted: 19 Jun 2005 08:02 AM PDT

Place a milestone at 12/29/49 that says "And here a miracle occurs..." LOL

Sorry but there's really nothing you can do about it. That date is implicit
in the way Project tracks time internally as an integer count of 1/10 minute
ticks of a clock that began 1/1/84. 2049 is when the register fills up and
rolls over to 00000000..... If it's any consolation, human activities like
project work schedules are impossible to plan in any but the vaguest of
terms that far ahead of time anyway, so a final task with a note attached
indicating it's true planned finish is as accurate as anything else you
might do. I would be incredibly surprised if something planned today to
happen on some date in 2049 actually ends up happening on the planned date
plus or minus 5 years anyway. If you want the graphics of plans in those
time horizons, Visio 2003 will do Gantt charts with at least a 75 year time
horizon. I just tried an experiment, and it will create a Gantt chart and
Timeline with a date range starting today and ending in 2085 if you set the
major units to years and the minor units to months and that is certainly as
granular a time frame as your project plans can really be over that long a
time period. Since Project deals with detailed work schedules and specific
activities at a level of detail that simply couldn't be known for something
so far in the future, it seems pointless to use it today to try to schedule
a hydro-gravitonic technician to show up at 10am on July 18th, 2052 with the
tools required to install a river containment force field across Coyote
Creek. <grin> Use Visio for your overall big-picture plan and to document
the broad, long range, project phases and Project for detailed plans for the
immediate and near future time horizon. A single task bar in the Visio plan
might become hundreds of tasks in Project when it's moved over and you're
close enough to the events to schedule them in detail.
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Water Bill" <Water microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Overtime vs Straight Time

Posted: 18 Jun 2005 07:58 PM PDT

Regular work at the stanard rate is work performed on the resource's work
calendar, the hours defined as his regular working hours. Overtime is work
done at hours other than those defined in his calendar. But Project doesn't
automatically apportion them. If someone's working time calendar says he
works an 8 hour day and you schedule him for 10 hours, Project sees this as
an 125% allocation and somehow your resource is magically able to do 10
hours of work in 8 hours of clock time. He's overallocated and you need to
fix it. In that scenario Project only pays him for 8 hours. To schedule
OT, as Mike said, you need to explicitly enter the number of hours of OT
that are included in the total work figure - just saying that the resource
is booked 125% doesn't do it.

For example, lets say your regular calendar is 8-5, M-F Standard calendar.
The calendar should ONLY list as work time those hours that are going to be
at standard rate so even if people occaisionally work on Saturday it should
be shown as non-working time in the calendar. You have a 6 day duration
task starting Mon 8am with Wally assigned to it. The tasl will be scheduled
to finish the following Monday at 5pm. But you're running a bit late in the
overall plan and you need it done a little sooner. It still 48 hours of
work, you can't change that and get everything done the task produces. So
you go to Wally and ask him to do 8 hours of OT on the task. You enter that
in the *schedule* by splitting the screen and in the bottom window entering
8h in the OT Work column of the Resource Work screen. Project does the
following -- 48 hours of work is required, 8 of which will be OT. Duration
is defined by the working time calendar, same as std pay. and OT work
doesn't count in duration and so the duration become 48h-8h, or 40 hours/5
days. Task now shows finishing Fri 5pm, just the reason you'd ask for OT in
the first place. Work is still 48 hours and the resource is allocated 100%
(not 125%) because work outside the resources working time calendar doesn't
count against his allocaton units either. Cost is 40h*StdRate + 8h*OtRate.
Project will evenly distribute those hours over the task duration, about
1.45 hours per day because as far as Project's schedule and budget
calculations are concerned it doesn't matter when those OT hours are worked,
only that they ARE worked. When you actually do the work, you enter
thehours per day the resource actually does in the usage view. If they're
going to defer the OT until Saturday, just enter the 8 per day they're doing
up till then. When you arrive at Fri it'll show you a day behind but
posting the 8 for Saturday will make everything come out right.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"MikeB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Locking table definition (view)

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 06:04 PM PDT

If the file is corrupted there is not much you can do about it besides
saving to another format (like the database format) and then reopening and
saving as a .mpp file.

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Inserting markers in timelines

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 02:30 PM PDT

A progress review is a task - it is a set of actions done by people and
takes a measurable length of time to complete. One way to do it is to enter
"Review Progress" as a recurring task scheduled every 3 or 6 months. Or you
could enter them individually with Start No Earlier Than constraints to
designate the dates on which they should start.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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BCWS calculated for tasks starting after Status Date

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 01:06 PM PDT

It depends on the baseline start, not start. Is the start the same as
baseline start for these tasks?

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Best way to plan time spent on recurring tasks

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:21 AM PDT


Hi Kesavan ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Have you tried Insert/Recurring Task... ? This procedure is specially
designed for meetings.

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



Kesavan wrote: 

How do I report weeks worth of time at once?

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:10 AM PDT

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"sohara28" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

sahara28,
Actually I suggested the Resource Usage View which is a built-in view
(View/More Views) not a built-in report (although there are Reports that
emulate the Usage view). So I guess I don't understand how you tried to,
". . . put 200 in the first task listed" because data cannot be entered
into a report - reports are output only.

The only plans that will succeed ARE those that have requirements
established and agreed upon by everyone involved before the plan to
fulfill those requirements is developed. It is not all that uncommon
(although certainly not desirable) to start working on something before
a formalized plan is developed. This often occurs with pre-contract
effort. In that case, the plan still needs to take into account the
tasks already completed and in particular the resources or funds already
spent. I call those "actuals to date" and there are various ways to
include them in a plan.

One approach is the following. Declare a point in time where formal
tracking of the plan started or will start (this might be an initial
contract date or a formal Initial Baseline Review). Everything before
that time is "actuals" (i.e. sunk cost) and everything after is the
estimated plan to finish the project. In some cases it might simply be
convenient to roll all project actuals into a single line in the plan
and in other cases it might be of benefit to break down various pieces
of the effort to date. The actuals could be entered into the Fixed Cost
field or they could be shown by entering task information to achieve the
desired real life scenario. For example, if Tom worked 200 hrs from
2/1/05 through 4/11/05 (note that 4/10/05 is a Sunday which is normally
non-working), make the following entries (assuming the Project Start
Date is 2/1/05):

1. Task Name (Also set the Task Type to Fixed Duration - Project/Task
Information/Advanced tab)
2. Duration: 49 days (That will allow Project to calculate the correct
Finish date given the Start date of 2/1/05. Note: the best way to
establish a task Finish date is to enter the Start date, if it is
something other than the Project Start Date, and then iterate the
Duration to get the desired Finish date. This assumes calculation is set
to automatic.)
3. Resource Names: Tom
4. Work: 200 hr
5. % Complete: 100%

The Cost will be computed based on Tom's pay rate (Resource Sheet) and
Tom will be shown at 51% utilization over that task duration.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Can I merge project calendars? Link them See several projects at o

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:06 AM PDT


Hi Skpinny ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #17 - Multiple Projects, 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



Skpinny wrote: 

Web Access 2003: Tasks or Projects tab redirecting to Home

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:04 AM PDT


Hi Bikram ,

If you have another question, try posting on the server newsgroup. Please
see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other
useful Project information can be seen at this web address:
http://www.mvps.org/project/.

Mike Glen
Project MVP





Bikram Sisodia wrote: 

Help With Changing the Default Start Date

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:01 AM PDT

Are you starting your new project using a template? If so, the start date
designated when the template was saved will be the default. One way to make
it easy to remember to change it to the actual projected start date is to
turn on the checkbox "Prompt for project info on new projects" on the Tools,
Options menu, General tab.

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

"MAB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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physical % complete does not roll up

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 08:00 AM PDT

Is that new in MSP 2003 that physical % complete does not roll up? I worked
with MSP 2002 for a while and it did work then. I agree with you that the
number would be difficult to interpret, but I don't think it would be totally
meaningless. For example, if a company bills its customers monthly based on
percent completion, physical % complete may be a better measure to use. As
long as there is justification for the rollup (at the task level) and those
task level entries are accurate, the rollup would be a valid number. This
would probably be even a better project indicator that % Complete or % Work
Complete, especailly if the project is ahead or behind the plan.

"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote:
 

Gantt Chart Views

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 05:00 PM PDT

Hi Roland
I think your problem is that you have set the gantt view somehow in the
other projects when you were printing, or trying to print.
I would open all the projects in the same window.
You can do this a few ways, but suggest you open them all at once, using
Window/ New Window. Then select all the projects and click OK.
You will now see all the projects in the same window.
This will enable you to debug the duration problem you have, and when you
have finished , if you save them (I suggest to new names) when you open them
the next time the gantt views will be OK.
You can save the new file created (the project view) as a master project and
this will enable you to sort out any problems at the individul project level.

Regards.............Pratta