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Project for Mac?

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 11:09 AM PDT

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

Skpinny,
Yes and no. The last version of Project released for Mac was 4.0 which
is about 4 versions and several years old. Depending on your needs, it
is still a very functional version and will run under OS 9.2.2 classic
mode with OS X. The main problem is it doesn't have all the latest
wiz-bang features and it isn't compatible with other users who are using
later versions of Project on an Intel based PC.

If you want to be current, you will need to use Virtual PC for Mac. I
currently use VPC 7, (although VPC 5 works fine also), and I support
Project 98 through 2003 as an MVP on this newsgroup.

Hope this helps.
John
The only Mac based Project MVP

How to find out all the hidden columns?

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 10:34 AM PDT

Hi Jack,

View ...More Tables ...Edit seems to only show unhidden columns.

Peter


"JackD" wrote:
 

Use of Project Server for Tracking Time

Posted: 17 Jun 2005 07:36 AM PDT


Hi Steve,

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





Steve wrote: 

Microsoft Project Help

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 06:01 PM PDT

Go to the Tools menu, Options, View tab, and in the lower right hand coender
turn on "View Project Summary Task." Then back in the Gantt chart, display
the Cost table.

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

"Jennifer" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Scheduling a task to move with the end date of another

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 04:55 PM PDT



"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote: 

Oops. Thanks for pointing that out.

Thor

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Leveling issues

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 04:42 PM PDT

If my estimated work is 80 hours and I take 40 hours to complete the work.
My project is being tracked using '% complete'. If I put my %complete as
100%, my actual work is automatically populated as 80, but if I put my actual
hours as 40, my %complete changes to 50%. What am I missing? Is there any
way to record both my actual work and %complete at the same time?

Thanks for your help

"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote:
 

How to add a column which will be linked to the Resource Names?

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 04:06 PM PDT

Is this Microsoft project?

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column. 

Insert Steps

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 02:34 PM PDT

Thank you.
--
Mtwaters


"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Using Outline Codes To Track Resources

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 02:22 PM PDT

Thanks, Mike. I've posted on the server group.

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Grouping Resources Across Projects

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 01:52 PM PDT

Sorry everyone. I posted this from the Support Web Site this morning, then
figured out to use Outlook Express and thus has been doubly posted.
Please disregard this as I was helped by Gerard.

Mark

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How do I keep track of material inventory remaining?

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 01:50 PM PDT

Hi,

Not possible, sorry :-))

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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"mewise1" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
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the 
way 
if 
screws? 
simple, 
inventory 

How do I accrue fixed material costs at the start of a task?

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 01:43 PM PDT

Work is a person doing activity and is measured in man-hours. It is not a
measure of materials and you can't mix it with material consumption. Doing
so is kind of like counting the number of discarded banana peels on the job
site after lunch break to determine the payroll cost <grin>. "Cummulative
work" is summing the man-hours expended to date. Hence it can't track the
number of kits because it doesn't represent a physical count of objects. An
assebler might expend 100 man-hours of work assembling a machine yet use
only 1 parts kit.

There is a big difference between tracking the costs of material resources
required by the tasks and doing inventory management. Project does fine for
the former but doesn't even recognize that there IS such a thing as a
materials inventory, much less manage it. (Notice when you put in your
parts kits as a material resource you can't edit the max units field? That
because as far as Project is concerned you have an infinite supply of them
and they're always there when you need one.) If your kits cost $100 each,
project can track how many tasks use them and come with a total number
required, the dates you'll use them, and how much they'll cost all together
but that's about it. IT won't show you when you need to order them, how
many you have in inventory, when you have to pay for them, or anything else
that an inventory accounting package might. The dates where they are
attributed to your budget are the dates where they have been consumed, not
the dates you pull them from inventory or have to cut the cheques to cover
their costs. If you think about it, from a *project management* standpoint
thats ok because your parts kit is expended only when it is installed in the
machine, thus the money it costs has only been spent when the kit is used -
if you withdrew it from inventory and then changed your mind about doing
that task, you could return the kit to inventory and you would still have
its full value in the "bank." Only when it's used up would you have spent
its value.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"mewise1" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How do I filter for Overallocated Tasks in Project?

Posted: 16 Jun 2005 01:33 PM PDT

Hi Gerard,

Thanks for your suggestion. It is quite helpful, but I'm still surprise that
project doesn't have a way to filter for, or show JUST the tasks that are
overallocated. What I would like is to be able to, per resource, show only
tasks that are overallocated per day, so that, say you click the "next
overallocation" button, it would show a list of the 2 or 3 tasks that are
causing the overallocation on 6/26. Do you know if there is a way to do that?
Are there any split window combinations that would allow you to filter for
resource overallocations and get a list of the tasks causing overallocations
on a daily or weekly basis? I hope I'm not asking for too much, but is just
seems to me that project should be able to do that. Thanks so much in advance,

Carlos.

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote: