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Microsoft Word - Have Word 2007-Windows Update keeps telling me to install a fix for Word 2010


Have Word 2007-Windows Update keeps telling me to install a fix for Word 2010

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 02:18 PM PDT

Every few days Windows update tells me that I have new updates to install. It is a fix for Word 2010 and is shown as important. I intentionally deselected it the last time I installed updates because it is not the version I have installed. Why is this happening and how can I prevent this? Note: I always stay current with my updates and have never had this happen before.

Word 2013 Resizes Window when left open

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 01:57 PM PDT

If I have a document open in MS Word and minimize the window to be able to work on something else, when I return to the window, it resizes itself making font and tabs very large.  Zoom is still set at 100% (standard when it looks normal).  When I close and reopen the document, it goes back to a normal view.  How do I fix this?

Help will not populate when selected-offline

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 01:01 PM PDT

I have all kinds of problems, mainly I think because of the proprietary nature of MS.. I currently use (try to) Explorer 11 as my default browser, I have Esset Nod32, and Haven't got the grasp of OUTLOOK..and how it relates to other e-mails.. 

I have a lot of learning to do, BUT..GENERALLY  I have been able to slowly work my way through situations with the help of my 'Help Files" 

Lately...my 'help' will not expand or populate when 'clicked' selected..I  noticed an icon in the lower taskbar that says "on/off' line--even this doesn't change, although it seems to take you automatically to 'help' and the whole Microsoft.com  world where you have to go in and select thee appropriate os, etc.etc, etc whereas IF  I could get the help that was installed it would be product specific... Why??  Where to start?

Screen has moved 90 degrees clockwise

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Whilst working on a document in word the screen for no apparent reason turned clockwise through 90 degrees. I turned the machine off back on it appears the same way. The opening screen with the date and time is on the left hand side!

machine is new, Office 2013 new also

Revisions pane started appearing with every comment

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 11:50 AM PDT

I'm still getting used to the 2013 version of Word. When I was playing around with Review and Track Changes options to get my text markups to display to my preference, I invoked the dreaded Revisions Pane. Now it appears every time I go to make a new comment because I keep trying to close the accursed window. Besides the distraction of the pane popping up, it also diverts my cursor off course when I try to type comments on the right side of the page. All of my efforts to change the Track Changes settings to what they were before have been futile. Please make the pane go away! I will live with it on one side of my screen for now, but at the cost of my sanity.

Office 365

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 11:27 AM PDT

Does Office 365 have a one time price for one computer instead of the $99 annual subscription?

Windows 8 Compatibility Issues for Microsoft Office 2007

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 11:24 AM PDT

I got a new Windows 8 laptop about a little over a year ago and loaded up my Office 2007 version to it. Since then I've had a ton of problems, including the fact that auto-save doesn't work at all, which causes a LOT of problems for me.

I heard there was a compatibility download that you can purchase and all I can find online is just buying the software completely new, and I don't want to do that. 

Do you know where I can download/buy that compatibility for Office 2007 (purchased IN the year 2007) for my Windows 8 laptop?

Thanks!

What is the Word equivilant of Shift+Tab that is used in InDesign?

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 10:58 AM PDT

With indesign, if I type something, hit Shift+Tab, and type some more, I get text typed on both ends of the text area with a spacer in the middle.  I guess the word for it would be Full Tab?  It doesnt matter what the justification is for that line, it will always push the text to the far left and right.  What is the equivalent to this for Word?

Error "There was a problem sending the command to the program"

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 09:33 AM PDT

I am using office on window 8 and just got an error message "There was a problem sending the command to the program" and another "We're sorry, but Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly.  Word will need to be closed as a result. Would you like us to repair now?"  I've clicked repair, didn't work.  I've also gone to WINWORD.exe's property tab and unchecked everything, didn't work.  I've tried troubleshooting, didn't work.  However I noted that there isn't an option for Window 8 in the property compatibility dropdown box.  Not sure why this happened all of a sudden, the Microsoft office has been working fine till today...I really need to have it work again before this afternoon as I have a paper due tonight...  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks! 

How do I print tracked changes but not formatting changes? (Word 2013)

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 09:24 AM PDT

I am using Word 2013 on a Windows 7 PC.  In the Review tab, when I uncheck Formatting in the Show Markup dropdown, it prevents the formatting changes from showing on my screen and in print preview, but still prints them on my document in the right margin (cut off like I show in the image below).   How do I prevent printing them altogether if I'm not ready to "accept" those formatting changes?  I just want to print all the tracked changes in my document except for the formatting changes.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Word count end note

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 08:46 AM PDT

How do I set the document (docx) word count to include end notes? Editor put me on strict word limit, to include every word in the document including end notes or foot notes. Need to count every one. He said there was a way to do this, but can't find it. Thank you.

mail merge in Word 2013 is a mail merge main document. Word cannot find its data source

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 08:28 AM PDT

Issues with mail merge in Word 2013

Client has a membership database. Every few weeks a list of new members is downloaded from the database as "Welcomeletter.csv" & it is merged with a document "Welcome letter.doc". Individual Welcome letters for each new member is printed & mailed.  The csv always had the same name & the newly downloaded csv file overwrote the old one. All the client had to then do was to open the main document "Welcome letter.doc" & print. The client had Windows XP & Office 2003. The mail merge used to work just fine in there.

We have now upgraded the client to Windows 7 & Office 2013 & it has been a nightmare. The association is not remembered, the main document asks for the correct data file, but pointing it to the correct data file does not help. The Word document needs to be told to forget the association & the csv file has to be re-associated with the document, every single time.  You do not have to reinsert the fields.

The following steps are the fastest way to get it done. But it does not make sense.

  1. When I Open the "Welcome      letter.doc" I get a prompt
         Opening the Document will run the following SQL Command:
         SELECT * FROM G:\WelcomeLetter.CSV
         Data from your database will be placed in the document, Do you want to continue.     
  2. I say NO ,  the document opens      , I go to Mailings , Select Recipients , use an existing list
  3. I then point to G:\WelcomeLetter.CSV      & everything is fine, I do not even have to reinsert the mail merge   fields.

If I do say Yes instead of No,   it still does not work & I need to do the same, however there are few extra prompts.

The first error message says

227DA05D.DOCX is a mail merge main document. Word cannot find its data source, G:\WelcomeLetter.CSV

Note: The file numbers keep changing

  1. I have to Option to "Find  the data Source'
  2. When I find the data      source & point to it , I get another error message

If the mail merge data/header source WelcomeLetter.CSV no longer exists, choose Remove Data/Header Source to remove its association with 227DA05D.docx or remove All merge info to make 227DA05D.DOCX a normal word document.

  1. I elect to " Remove      Data/Header Source" , Open the document  go to Mailings , Select Recipients , use      an existing list I then point to G:\WelcomeLetter.CSV & everything is fine,      I do not even have to reinsert the mail merge fields.

 

Both the word & the csv files are stored in G:\ ( Network drive. They have always been stored there)

I have tried C:\ , C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\ ,  It does not affect

The word file used to originally be a doc file & I recreated a new docx file & no change.

Please help I am losing my mind

 

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 does not open again after repair of computer

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 07:51 AM PDT

I bought the Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 (English) and downloaded the free Afrikaans spell checker as well.

The German language pack I had to by from Microsoft. I downloaded it. Everything worked fine.

But now, after the repair of my computer, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 does not want to load again with the CD.

What must I do now?

I only get now Word 2007 but only in Afrikaans with English and Afrikaans spell checker.

I also don´t get the German Spell Checker any-more.

My computer has three users.  First user: German

                                                      Second user: Afrikaans

                                                      Third user: English (South Africa)

Everything worked very well before the repair.

The first user got everything, also the menu, from Microsoft Home and Student 2013 in German. Also with the German Spell Checker.

The second user got everything in Afrikaans. With Afrikaans Spell Checker.

The third user got everything in English (South Africa). With English (South Africa) Spell Checker.

I have Microsoft windows 7 Ultimate.

Thank you, in advance, for your help.

Yours sincerely

Werner Krehl

MS Word 2010 Content Control

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 07:31 AM PDT

Hi there,

I have the following problem: I cannot have a drop down list or something similar, in which I can choose e.g. a name and - after clicking onto it - having shown for example his office number which I obviously enter in advance. Is that possible? Bear in mind that the document will be restricted.

Cheers,

Alex

Effects on a picture in word 2013

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 07:31 AM PDT

I don't have the tool for adding effects on a picture in word 2013.

How can I add this tool to the toolbar for pictures? I tought it was standard in this toolbar, but it's probably not at my computer...

Can anybody help me? Thanks!

Microsoft Word 2007 - crash after custom font installation

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 07:08 AM PDT

Hi there, 

I tried to install a custom font in MS Word. Everything went well up until i was prompted: 

"You are about to change the default font to (Default) fontfont sizefont style.
Do you want this change to affect all new documents based on the NORMAL template"

I accidentally clicked cancel, and now my Word crashes every time I try to select a font. I already deleted the font and have re-installed MS Word. 

Please help!

windows 2013

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 06:21 AM PDT

I have tried several times to get windows word 2013 to work and all I get is this message

We're Sorry, but word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly. Word will need to be closed as a result

Word 2013 table corruption

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 02:35 AM PDT

Hi,

I have a word document, which is generated by third party software. The document contains a table, which looks fine in word 2010. I highlighted the affected area:

But in word 2013 the table is corrupted:

Des anybody has an idea what could be wrong?

Thanks!

Word crashed when trying to define new multilevel list

Posted: 03 Jun 2014 01:56 AM PDT

Hi Expert

I have some problems defining a new multilevel list if the cursor is placed within a paragraph using the List Bullet or List Bullet 2 style. If I do the following Word crashes:

  • Apply List Bullet style to a paragraph
  • Apply List Bullet 2 style to the following paragraph
  • Modifying both styles, e.g. changing the font size to 9
  • Place the cursor in the first paragraph with the List Bullet style applied
  • Click Define new multilevel list...

However it seems that this behaviour is only related to Word 2007 - I have tested on three different machines which all do the same. But when testing on a machine with Word 2010 or Word 2013 everything seems to be working fine.

Any ideas?

word 2010 how do i save autocorrect entries in word 2010

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 11:24 PM PDT

word 2010 how do i save autocorrect entries in word 2010????

Microsoft Office 2013 Has Stopped Working

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 11:06 PM PDT

My brother attempted to open a Microsoft 2010 word file from his flash drive when this error occurred. When I attempt to open any Microsoft Office 2013 application, it first tells me "Word failed to launch in safe mode. Do you want to start repair?" I click yes, then, it proceeds to say that "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed." When I try to open a file already created in, for example Microsoft Word 2013, it tells me "Microsoft Word is trying to recover your information..." that dialog box disappears. I then attempt to open the file again, and a new dialog box appears, saying, "Word couldn't start last time. Safe mode could help you troubleshoot the problem, but some features might not be available in this mode.   Do you want to start in safe mode?" I click yes. and then the process repeats. When I went to Start > Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features, I then right clicked the Office Home and Student Suite 2013, and clicked "change" Office then opened a window to repair it's programs which also failed. It says "Something went wrong. Sorry we ran into a problem. Go online for additional help. Error Code 30029-4"  I am no longer sure of what other options I have short of uninstalling and reinstalling the Office Suite. I have also checked the computer for viruses and the like from my brother's flash drive via Vipre, possibly ruling out malicious software. I only know so much about these kind of issues however.

Google Map URL Fails in Word

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 10:29 PM PDT

Office Pro Plus 2013

Word version (15.0.4615.1000) MSO (15.0.4615.1000) 32-bit

Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

 

Obtain a Google Map URL like

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Golden+Gate+Bridge,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.815141,-122.474513&spn=0.03075,0.066047&sll=37.269174,-119.306607&sspn=15.837074,33.815918&oq=golden+gate+bridge&t=h&z=15

 

Obtain the Google Map short URL for it.

http://goo.gl/7E5ILR

 

When you click on either link in a Word document, you get in Google Chrome

"https://maps.google.com/maps?output=classic&dg=ntvo"

which is not your location.

 

If you paste either url directly into Google Chrome, it works fine.

 

Why do the links not work in Word?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Key tips and enhanced screen tips accessibility

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 09:09 PM PDT

Hello,

I teach Office to vision impaired students to assist them in gaining employment.

To assist our blind students I am currently trying to create a document that lists all the key tips (keystrokes) and enhanced screen tips (descriptions) for each of the commands on each of the ribbon tabs in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, both 2010 and 2013.

At the moment I am manually checking each tab and typing the information into an Excel spreadsheet.  This is a very tedious process as I first need to list all the individual button names then the enhanced screen tips and then the keytips.

Is there an easier way to create this list i.e. by using a macro to extract the information into a Word document or Excel spreadsheet etc.

Looking forward to your assistance,

G.

New bibliography does not appear in the list

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 07:54 PM PDT

I need this type reference style in MS word as I have created the .XSL file and place it in style folder but my bibliography list does not appear in the list even I have exit the word totally and also restart my computer. How can I overcome this problem?

Walter, S. and S. Birnie. 1991. Mapping Mortality and Morbidity Patterns: An International Comparison. International Journal of Epidemiology. 20: 678–689.

garbled email documents wont open in Word 2007

Posted: 02 Jun 2014 05:36 PM PDT

Hi I would like to know how I can get my email documents sent over email( pdf )to open in Adobe Reader at the momnet for some reason they are opening in Word and it is all numbers and garbled and I cant print out  or read rubbish.??????????? The documents always used to look like english and print out that way but for some reason it has diverted the email documents through Office word 2007.?  I have windows vista and toshiba 2008 laptop 2 ram memory.Thanks Rosie L

Selecting the Correct Edition Microsoft Project

Selecting the Correct Edition Microsoft Project


Selecting the Correct Edition

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 01:11 PM PDT

Project in any edition is installed as single user software. There is no
difference between the two versions as far as the number of people who can
use the software or access a file at the same time. Basically it is like
word or excel or other microsoft apps. If it is installed on the machine you
are at, you can run it. The first one to open a file with that software is
the one who has write access to it. Others can open it for reading, but they
won't get to see any changes until the person with it open saves changes,
and then the person who is reading closes and re-opens the file. Judging by
what you say, Project Standard should be sufficient. It is up to them to
decide how many licences they need for active users.

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Assigning Multiple resources to a task

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 12:26 PM PDT

Lak,

Please also check your Duration and Work fields by inserting them into the
table you are viewing (if not already viewable there). My guess is that the
Duration is 40 hours or 5 days, and the Work is 200 hours. This would happen
if you did not remove your resources from the task prior to changing the
Duration to 40 hours. This can be corrected by changing the Duration to "1d"
or "8h", leaving the resources in place (and assuming that the task type is
fixed units with the effort driven box checked).

I hope this helps.... :)
--
Don L.


"LS" wrote:
 

Creating work bucket tasks

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 10:45 AM PDT

Ahhh, never mind.
I think I got it.

THANKS

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Date Range Work Formula

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 10:00 AM PDT

Not Really. Ultimately what I'm trying to get to is a view that shows by
task, the number of FTE's needed broken down by total and by month. I've been
able to calculate and FTE for the year because I can create a formula using
the total work field. I'm not able to create my formula broken down by month
because I'm not able to calculate the work being performed for a specific
range of time.

I have been able to export the Resource Usage view into excel and perform my
calculations there but I'd like to be able avoid doing that each time I want
to see the data by FTE.

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Schedule report analysis

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 08:38 AM PDT

Dale:

Thank you very much for the quick response. Your answer was very helpful and
confirmed my suspicion about that particular feature. Also, thanks for the
link. If anyone else out there has any ideas or other links, I would
appreciate your input and suggestions.

Again, thanks Dale.

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Setting Gantt Date Range

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 08:29 AM PDT

And what happened?
If you are just wanting to display (ie: present on the screen) then double
click on the timescale header and adjust it until two weeks covers the
screen.

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SELECT ALL and ROW buttons are not showing

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 07:37 AM PDT

Perfect.
The column size was set to "0".
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Thanks!


"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Removing Team Status requests

Posted: 24 Jun 2005 02:57 AM PDT

Hi David,
You are very welcome and thanks for the feedback.
Julie

"jumpsystems" wrote:
 

hiding summary tasks with no groups and sort by start

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 02:49 PM PDT

No problem. Glad to help

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Urgent! Project Summary question

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 01:19 PM PDT

Jack:
Thanks! for your reply.
I'm talking about in PWA.....
Project center->projects->gantt view.....

Thanks!
Sankar



"JackD" wrote:
 

customize bars by groups or names

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 11:04 AM PDT

Haha, why not?

"JackD" wrote:
 

Timescaled Baseline & BCWP Output

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 10:31 AM PDT

1) If you have added any tasks then those additions do not get rolled up
into the topline baseline, but they will show in the export data. Sumary
task baselines are NOT changed when you edit or change existing baseline
data from their subtasks.
That could be a reason.

2) Is the "baseline" valid? If you get good data from one baseline
(Baseline5) and not from the other it would suggest that the other baseline
has a problem of one sort or another. Perhaps the values in that baseline
are bad. I'd insert the relevant baseline fields (start, finish, cost ) for
both baseline and baseline5 and see if there are any discrepancies.

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Can Resources Work More Than 24 hours Per Day?

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 10:29 AM PDT

If I have one request of the Project world it is that there is eventually a clear universally
accepted notion that Resources can be people, teams, robots, machines, bacteria etc.
The fact that the ones that can't report for themselves must have agents to do it for them, does
not mean they can't stand alone or in groups; that they do not have profound effects on Project
outcomes and in know way should they have to suffer levels of abstraction as to their productivity.
(100% is absolute.). I would never schedule or plan anything in other than a 24 hour project calendar.
It makes no sense and only works if you are willing to accept a large amount of variation
in you resource availability or restriction to the application of them.





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Applying a custom calendar to a project

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 09:16 AM PDT

Hi Dave,

Create the custom calendar (Tools>Change Working Time> New).
You will also want to make sure that the definition of hours per day and
hours per week matches the calendar you created and change the default start
and end times in the Tool>Options calendar tab.
Apply the custom calendar to the project in Project>Project Information in
the calendar drop-down.
Change the Gantt chart to display the nonworking time from the custom
calendar. Format>Timescale and select the custom calendar from the Nonworking
time tab.
If you have created resources, check the Resource Sheet and change the Base
Calendar for the resources to the custom calendar as necessary.
Tasks without Task calendars will use the custom calendar for scheduling.


Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie


"Dave Shaw [MVP]" wrote:
 

Forums for MS Project professionals Jobs

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 09:14 AM PDT

> Northrop Grumman is always looking for 'experienced' project 

Ha! I just left NG.
Actually, I'm looking for a scheduler:
with EVMS experience
with a clearance
with moderate to advanced Project skills
who lives in the Denver area

dave

Milestone

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 08:10 AM PDT

A summary task summarizes the tasks below. The duration of the summary task
is the elapsed duration from the earliest of the tasks it summarizes to the
finish of the latest task it summarizes. You can not edit this duration.

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sorting

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 07:44 AM PDT

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how do i represent ongoing tasks?

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 06:59 AM PDT

There is no such thing as an unending task in a project. Tasks are defined
as physical activities with an observable beginning and ending point. Some
tasks may be indeterminate in that they extend for the duration of the
project however long it lasts, such as the project manager's own job, and
Julie's suggestion to look up hammock tasks is how you can handle them, but
even hammock tasks will have a definite, albeit flexible, scheduled end
date.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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MSP extends the dates of my task.

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 06:24 AM PDT

There is only a limited amount of mind-reading that Project can do for you.
You've said your task is a fixed duration task. The duration is the number
of working time units between when work is first performed and when it ends.
"Fixed duration" for a 5 day task that is presently starting on Monday does
not mean regardless of when it starts it will always end on Friday - it
means that whenever it starts it will always finish 5 days later. My task
is to assmble 50 widgets and I can assemble 10 widgets a day. If I start on
Monday, I'll finish the last widget on Friday, 5 days later. But if I get
delayed and don't start until Wednesday, that doesn't mean I only have to
assemble 30 widgets - I still have to do 50 and I still can only do 10 per
day. So the finish date has to change to the following Tuesday because
that's when my 5 days of duration will pass after the start on Wednesday AND
that really is the earliest possible date that I could finish all 50 of the
widgets I'm required to assemble in order to complete the Project's
deliverable. If your task is to do 150 widgets and you assign 3 resources
to it, that means each resource will do 50 widgets. Whether they work
together or separately, each resource will be required to do 50 widgets.
99% of the time that is an accurate description of the physical nature of
the work and Project has no way of knowing if this is one of the 1% that are
the exception.

A second misconception evident in your post is just what the task type means
and where it has some effect. Fixed duration, fixed work, and fixed units
all refer to the identity W=D*U that is at the core of all Project's
resource calculations. Remember your basic high school algebra - any linear
equation (y=mx+b) such as this one has a constant, an independent variable,
and a dependent variable. You change the independent variable and the
equation calculates the dependent variable. In Project, "b" is zero and
so the equation is "y=mx". Project lets you pick what term is the constant,
the "m", and what term is the independent variable, the "x". When you're
editing a resource assignment, that is changing one of the terms Work,
Duration, or Units, the item you are changing is the independent variable
and the task type setting instructs Project what to hold constant. If
you're changing Units and you want MSP to recalculate work, set the task to
fixed duration. If you're changing the Units and want Project to
recalculate the duration, set the task type to fixed work. If you're
changing the Units and the task type is left on Fixed Units (the default)
Project behaves as if the type were Fixed Work this go around. But if
you're NOT changing one of the values W, D, or U for resource assignments
that have already been made, the task type setting has absolutely no effect
whatsoever. In your "problem" example, you weren't changing any of those
values when you change the date he starts on the task - the work he's
required to do is the same, the duration for your resource is the same, and
the units he's assigned are the same - you've merely delayed the start date
when he begins to assemble his 50 widgets. And this is crucial to remember,
as far as these computations are concerned, Project doesn't know that any
other resources assigned to the task even exist.

When you have multiple resources each of them is considered to be
independent of all the others and the task duration shown on the Gantt chart
is measured from the time the earliest starting resource begins until the
latest finishing resource is done. But the W=D*U formula looks at each
individual resource in a vacuum. If Joe, Bill, and Fred are all scheduled
to start together and work for 10 days, then Bill is delayed a few days, Joe
and Fred will start their 10 together and Bill will come in a couple of days
after. After Joe and Fred have done their 10 days they go away. Fred
continues work by himself after they're gone until he's done his 10 day fair
share of the work. The durations for each resource's task have not changed,
they're each working for 10 days at 100% doing 1/3 of the total output of
the task, just like before and so task type settings have no effect at all,
there's nothing to recalculate. What has changed is the total time between
when the early bird gets started and the slow bird finishes, ie, the date
when all the required work of the task finally gets done. Anything else is
going to require hand adjustments on your part.
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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total work?

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 02:52 AM PDT

I don't know of any way to show work without assigning resources. However, I
have used the following technique for years to determine how many resources
are needed on a project.

I manage I.S. projects so there are multiple skill sets involved: Business
Analysts, Systems Analysts, Developers, QA staff and business reps. It is
important for me to know how much work belongs to each of these groups so
assigning a skill set to each task is a useful exercise. If you set up the
plan properly you can adjust the "max units" for each of the skill sets to
assign different numbers of resources to the project and see the effects on
end date.


"Itai Raz" <com> wrote in message
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Simultaneous task resourcing

Posted: 22 Jun 2005 11:16 PM PDT

If you have 2 tasks and 1 resource can work on both of them them
simultaneously for two hours and complete them, that implies he could
complete just one of them in only 1 hour, in other words, it requires 1
man-hour of effort to produce each task's deliverable. A 2 hour duration
task that produces 1 man-hour of output means that the resource works on it
at a 50% allocation - each hour of task time produces 1/2 hour of work
output. So for your 2 tasks, 1 resource, with work on both tasks together
completed in 2 hours, enter them as 2 2-hour duration tasks and assign your
resource at 50% units to each one.

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"Nathan Jones" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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98 & 00 Version Comparison

Posted: 22 Jun 2005 10:37 PM PDT

In addition to what Jan mentioned, 98 is limited to a maximum of 9 levels of
indent in the WBS outline and material resources don't exist (as I recall).
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"meljay" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Data validation in MS Project 2003?

Posted: 22 Jun 2005 06:17 PM PDT

Project lets allows setting it so that it must be in the predefined list.
That is about it.

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Task Start/Finish Days

Posted: 22 Jun 2005 02:54 PM PDT

I don't want to specify a date, the finish date could be any Friday or also a
Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, depending upon where the previous task ends.

I have gotten around this for now by coding a 1 minute predecessor task with
a calendar where all the Fridays are blocked out. That way it can only start
on a Mon, Tue, Wed, or Thur, and will finish on Friday or before.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Betty

"Nathan Jones" wrote:
 

Deleting a calendar in MSProject 2003.

Posted: 22 Jun 2005 01:33 PM PDT

Thank you for the quick response.

However, I had gone there prior to posting the question. What I am seeing
are the default calendars and a calendar I added. However, there are other
calendars that were added by a client who gave me this schedule. There are
about 4 or 5 of these added calendars. None of these calendars are showing up
in the tools/organize/calendar tab. And, none of these have been assigned to
an activity (with the exception of the one I added). Why aren't these other
calendars showing up in the above add/remove tab?

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote: