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Microsoft Word - Templates notloading

Templates notloading

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:17 PM PST

I just installed Microsoft Office 365 University.  When I click on a template in Word, I get the error message that there was a problem downloading the template.  Any suggestions?  Other than that it works fine. 

Printing a blank a page with no number showing

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:57 AM PST

I am using Word 2010. I am printing a blank page with no number showing

 

First, I have the hidden formatted characters showing and I do not see two consecutive page breaks.

 

 

Here is the sequence:

- an automatic 3 page TOC with the last page printing only a few lines at the top.

 

After the last TOC I inserted a Section Break (New page) because I wanted on start a new number series on the next page.

 

In the footer I can see the correct page number ix.

 

What appears to be the next page is fine with the number 1.

 

So all looks good, BUT when I create a pdf file I get blank no number page between ix and 1.

 

When I do  Print command to see the Print preview, I see the print counter for the ix page as 11.  When and i scroll down in print preview, I see the blank page with the overall page number on the print counter shows as 13.   It shows no print counter for page 12.

 

Whew, I hope you understand this because I had a difficulty explaining why I keep getting a blank page betwee page ix and page 1.

Integrate with Outlook 2010

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:34 AM PST

Does anyone know if Word Starter will function as the editor in Outlook 2010?

Thanks

Need to know

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:27 AM PST

I installed Office Home and Student 2007 on a laptop which has now given up the ghost. I now have a new laptop. Can I install the same programme, using the previous disc, on my new laptop, or do I have to buy a new one?

Recording A Macro In A Template

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:22 AM PST

I have figured out how to record a macro in a template but wondered if there were any, "standard" or, "usual" way of doing this.

 

Thanks in advance for any replies.

macros in word 2013 stopped working

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 06:48 PM PST

I had created a small macro using the 'record macro' service in Word2013.

 

Now, when I try 'record macro' and try to 'assign macro to button' I get:

 

The function you are attempting to run contains macros or content that requires macro language support. When this software was installed, you chose not to install support for macros or controls.

 

I did create one macro and assigned it to a button. I get this same message when trying to execute it now. It had worked.

 

Don't know what I have done to start to get this message.

 

 

Normal won't stay on Styles Gallery

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 10:18 AM PST

From the Home tab, Styles group, with Normal selected, at some point I did something to make that disappear from the list permanently. I can get it to display temporarily (Styles dialog box launcher; Styles pane, click Normal list arrow; Add to Style Gallery), but when I open a new blank document, Normal is gone again from the gallery. How can I get it back. Thanks in advance.

Microsoft Word - thin line across the Word 2010 page cannot remove

Microsoft Word - thin line across the Word 2010 page cannot remove

thin line across the Word 2010 page cannot remove

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 04:25 AM PST

I am using Word 2010.  I have a thin line across the page that shows when print.  However, I cannot remove it.  What is it and how do I remove it?

Thanks.  Steve

Automated Method of Removing Read Only Recommended Option from Document Repository - Word 2007

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 05:56 PM PST

We are running Word 2007, Windows 7 Enterprise Sp1 2 Bit.  We have a document management system Opentext Hummingbird DM 5.2.  Years ago someone set the Read Only Recommended check box when we had Word 2002 on a subset of form documents. Up until recently, the users were able to work with the documents as they received a prompt when they opened the document which allowed them to ignore the Read Only option. Now with some of the recent versions of our DM users are no longer prompted with the option to say Yes or No to the read only option, instead the document opens Read Only.  They have to perform a Save as, cancel the document management profile screen, save the document locally, click the Tools, General Options and uncheck the Read Only Recommended option and import the document back into our document management system.  I am looking for a way to search through a document repository to find the Read Only Recommended option in the Word documents, uncheck the option and save the document back in an automated fashion?  Please note, this is not a Read Only option on the file.  This is the Read Only Recommended option you see when you go to save a document and click the Tools menu, General Options.

Message - 'Configurating Microsoft Home & Student 2007'

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:56 AM PST

During the last few days - when I open a Word file, whether it's an attachment to an email or it's accessed through Windows File Explorer, I get a message 'Please wait whilst setup prepares the necessary files' followed by Configurating Microsoft Home & Student 2007', this takes approx 30 seconds.  This is so annoying as it is so time consuming.  What is causing this and how can I get my PC to revert to work as it used to?

I  carried out Windows and Office updates a few days ago, is there any connection?

 

M. OFFICE UNIVERSITY 2010

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 10:04 AM PST

HI: In Microsoft Office University 2010, using WORD. Right about the BLUE "FILE" Box Tab, there is a few small icons. One of which when you hold your mouse over one of them, it  shows "SAVES", and saves the work you have just done. I know you can hit "FILE" and brings up the 'area's of which you want to do, such as, save. HOWEVER, when you 'hover' over the smaller icon and SAVE your work, how can you make sure that it is SAVED. Does microsoft have a 'sound' for this so that you can 'hear' it and be rest assured that it is SAVED.

THANKS,

Microsoft Word - Unable to remove letters that show up when I open Word

Microsoft Word - Unable to remove letters that show up when I open Word

Unable to remove letters that show up when I open Word

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 05:22 PM PST

Every time I open Word the blank page has the letters kjl on it.  I have tried to remove them without success.

opening Word causes Office configuration

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 01:34 PM PST

Whenever I open my MS Word program, I get a screen that says "Please wait while Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 is configured. Configuration Progress...configuring Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007."  Then MS Word is opened and operates normally.

 

I have already tried the following to no avail:

1) Opened Control Panel, Programs and Features, Selected Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Selected Change, Selected "Repair" for Change your installation of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007.  Repaired MS Office Enterprise 2007.  Rebooted computer.

2) MS Word, Word Options, Resources: Ran Microsoft Office Diagnostics - Diagnostics run: 5, Diagnostices that identified problems: 0, and Diagnostices that took corrective actions: 0.

 

The problem is recent and occures upon each try to open MS Word.  I have run Office 2007 without incident for over two years.

 

MS Excel, MS Access and MS Outlook open without any issues.

 

Running Windows 7

Updating office xp

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 05:36 AM PST

I am trying to update officeXP. I am given two choices: 1.OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-client-enu.exe and 2.OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe. Which do I choose? Thanks.

Ruler is in Centimeters

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 02:42 AM PST

In my WORDS2007, everything has been changed to inches (WORDS OPTIONS/ADVANCED ...  etc) including CONTROL PANEL/REGIONAL SETTING. But the Ruler in WORDS still remains as centimeter. (The paper size and Margins are also shown in Inches)

Please help to change it back to inches

Thank you very much.


Lee CC

Problems with saving new files from another programme into Word 2010.

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 04:55 PM PST

Can someone assist with this problem please? I have reposted from Word banter.

Background to this post. ... I had a lot of help from this site with setting up macro but at the time it was beyond me. It was too advanced and I cannot take a concept and re-apply a different fix. I apologise and thank everyone for their help.  It is extremely difficult for me to work with the macro concept given that a lot of the information is old and I cant do it without screenshots. It is not my main task to become an expert in Word but just to do this one thing. Doug Robbins kindly wrote up a code for me  based on my docuument  to change my footnotes from superscript and I paid to have someone show me how to install it step by step using screenshots. I was lucky to find someone to do this. I  was using it for some time but forgot my programme that uses charts is saved into word. This has created a new problem for me. I was warned it would be a permanent fix and svaed my new macro in global template. end of background to this post.

 

NEW POST

I will have to do this post in stages because I know what is happening but need to sort out this problem first.

I made a new footnote macro and saved it in Word global template. It was working fine but then it didn't because of another programme that uses Word to open some charts is using the same template. I forgot about this programme when I set a global template and I have just started using it again. I made some mistakes and couldnt even close the files without saving it. I really didnt know what to do.

When I want to just file this programme it is fine and get saves as a Word Doc. However when I close it I get the message "this file is in use by another application or user C:\users\AppData…normal.dotm. I press Ok and it opens a window to save it to templates. The file name is normal. But this thropws up other messages.

What do I save it to, "Word Macro enabled template"? If I choose Word document I get a message that" it cannot be saved in a macro free document. dot VBA project." ( I know this refers to visual basic) I am then asked to save it to a macro enabled file type in the drop down menu or continue to save it as a macro free document. If I don't save it then word closes down or shows it is closing down but actually doesn't . After trying it again just now I just got a message that it is "a read only" document. If I save it to a macro template I stell get errors and I have a stack of normal templates in the "roaming files".

 I will be using the charts a lot from now on. I knew how to change the normal template in earlier versions but hadnt used macros before.

What should I try and save it in please? I have written down a variety of messages I get and not all the same. What is the best process of handing these charts please?

Or does the answer lay in changing the global template. I believe this may be a permanent fix.If it is gloabal template should I repost my question.

Stefan I went to the link you gave me http://word.mvps.org but I really couldn't relate to much of it as the ribbon was different and I couldn't recreate the same ribbon. So without this I couldn't follow this.

 

I didnt want to jump ahead to far but the macro is still there and no longer working.  Can someone  you please explain this using "dummy language" and/or is it possible to send screenshots as an attachment

 

I was taken to tak for not litening to you before but I really tried to follow your advice but it was beyond my skill level.  and didnt hep because the information I was gien was old. Stephan acknowledged this and showed me additional code but by then I was thouroughly confused and stressed. I am now moths behind in my project so would apprecialte your assistance.

kind regards.

 

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mailmerge pulling in blank rows from excel source file

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 09:33 AM PST

Hi guys, I'm hoping someone can help me out.

 
I've got a word mailmerge tied to an excel source file.  Everything has ran well for the past 6 months with everything until now.  I'm running into a problem where the mailmerge is creating extra records that are blank.  The source file (I've confirmed this is correct) has only 20 rows of data.  I've gone as far as highlighting the rows complete to the end of the book, right click, and deleting the rows complete and saving prior to retrying the process, (not just hitting the delete key to clear data).

 

But I'm still creating 1000 records that word wants to send emails for where only 20 exist.

 

How do I get the mailmerge to pull just the active rows and no more?   

 

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

 

how to mailmerge to unique managers with atleast 5 unqiue associates data under them

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 08:45 AM PST

Hi,

 

I want touse mailmerge to do the following: i have the excel in this format:

username  managername   groupname

dave         abba                admin

eric           abba                admin, user

michele     sue                  admin

chasse       kevin                user

 

 

now i want to use mailmerge to send emails to the managers(in this case Abba, sue, kevin) giving them the other 2 columns details about their reports only.  the problem here is becase abba is repeated twice...i dont want to send her 2 emails either. can i send her just one email with her reports details in a table to some other format?

 

how cani do this? is this possible?

 

Office 2013 apps won't load

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 07:27 AM PST

Loaded Office 365 and have Office 2013 icons on my start page, but they won't run. When I click on any of them, the wait cursor appears for a few seconds then stops. If I start run as administrator, I get the UAC message, then the wait cursor, then nothing. I watched in task manager and could see the UAC window load, but there was never a process for the Office 2013 app. This is true for all of them, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point.

I also tried putting a shortcut to Word 2013 on the desktop and dragging a Word document to it. Nothing. I was able to install Office 2010 and it seems to be working, but I paid for the use of 2013, and I would like to use it. I need Access.

Just another frustration with Microsoft's latest version of ME.

Changing administrator rights on for Word 2013

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 07:31 PM PST

My Word 2013 on Windows 7 automatically opens as administrator.  How do I remove this setting so it opens regularly?

MS Word header styles are showing black boxes instead of numbers--how can I fix this?

Posted: 17 Feb 2013 12:18 PM PST

I modified the default headers for a large document. They looked fine when I set them up, but after I saved the document and came back to it, some of the outline numbering showed up as black boxes. The instructions for setting up list styles was very confusing. I had particular trouble selecting the multilevel outlining--it keeps going back to the default setting.

 

 

Microsoft Word - How can I find and use my multiple style sets from Word 2010 now that I have 2013?

Microsoft Word - How can I find and use my multiple style sets from Word 2010 now that I have 2013?

How can I find and use my multiple style sets from Word 2010 now that I have 2013?

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 12:44 PM PST

I had a large number of style sets in Word 2010. When I upgraded to 2013, they disappeared from the ribbon. I see them in my personal templates. How to a apply a new style set to an existing file? For example, I have a library style set for documents I put in my on-line library. If I want to apply the library styles to a document with no styles, or with different style set, how to I tell Word which style set to use?

I typed a line of *'s between 2 paragraphs, now I can't delete it. Help!

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 11:46 AM PST

Apparently, Word changed this into a 'border' and I can't get rid of it.

Tab dot leader issue in Word 2010

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 06:54 AM PST

How do I get Tab dot leaders to work in Word 2010? I have clicked the Paragraph dialogue, Tabs, and selected the Leader radio button 2. However, I cannot get any response with ....... Where do I go from here?

Word 2013 Default View/Layout

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 06:47 AM PST

Hi all,

I would like to ask is it normal when you open Word 2013, the default view for the print layout starts right at the top (like it is just beneath the ribbon toolbar) unlike Word 2010 where there is a header and footer space before you see the cursor starting a few centimetres below the ribbon toolbar? Thanks!

Why can't I hyperlink to a Heading (appendix)?

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 06:29 AM PST

Hi,

 

I've had some success w/ hyperlinks, but for some reason I can't "find" an appendix in the hyperlinks list, even though its style is set to "Heading."  (I have other Headings (1, 2, etc.) but the appendix ones aren't numbered, of course.)  All it shows are my numbered headings, and a bunch of "Bookmarks" (OLE's). I'm using Word 2007.

 

Thanks!

 

Mark H.

Age Calculation Using Word Mailmerge

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 03:25 AM PST

I'm trying to create a mergefield formula to calculate a person's age.  I have the birthday in MM/DD/YYYY format.  Is there a way to somehow subtract from the current day and calculate a numeric age?

How can I maintain the formatting pattern when adding extra rows to a Word Table?

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 03:00 PM PST

I'm trying to add information to an existing Word Table but whenever I click to add extra rows below the table, they're all the same colour instead of alternating light and dark bands as in the original rows.

If I create a completely new Word Document with a table, I can easily add the extra rows retaining the alternating format.

Can anyone tell me what's happening here??

greyed out "text to table"

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:51 AM PST

I am trying to convert a listing in Word to an excel table but it is greyed out.  please help!

MS Word program

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 04:00 PM PST

MS Word program is continously swithing from Eng. Canada to French Canada. All the obvious setting don't hold it on Eng.Canada.

Any Ideas ?

what is af0bbc.msi

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 08:43 AM PST

I've been having this occur ever since I had to reformat my HD a few months back and reinstall Office.  Every time I go to open Word or Excel or anything like that, I get a popup (since I'm using my limited account, not the Admin account) asking me for admin permissions to install C:\Windows
\Installer\af0bbc.msi.

I went and looked at the file and it looks like it's a plain old regular MS file, but not a soul online anywhere seems to talk about it and I find it odd that Office didn't install everything it needed at the beginning. 

What is this file?  Can I tell it to just install?  Should I worry?

I'm using my old Office 2000 but I'm on a Windows 7 machine with XP compatibility. .  I've been using it like this for a very long time with no issue.  Like I said, the issue only arose on the recent reformat.

Thanks!

how do I configure my signature in Word 2003 Professional

Posted: 17 Feb 2013 06:09 PM PST

In don't want to use a digital signature.  I want to configure a signature like I have for my Outlook email but Word does not give me this option. Does anyone know how to do it? I would appreciate your assistance with this. Thanks in advance.

Microsoft Word - Capital vs. lower case

Microsoft Word - Capital vs. lower case

Capital vs. lower case

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:18 AM PST

why does Word automatically capitalize the beginning word of each new line when it's not the beginning of a sentence?

Check boxes

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 10:05 AM PST

Hi Everyone,

 

Is there a way I can add in some check boxes in my form and use keyboard to make it check or uncheck without clocking the form?

 

Thanks

Chi Huynh

2010 Word docs t/f'd to new laptop are now 97-2003--help to t/f these back to 2010

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 06:58 PM PST

Hello,

 

I just purchased a new Lenovo G580 laptop with Windows 8 64-bit and installed MS Office Professional 2010 on it. I stored my 2010 Word docs from my old computer by emailing them to my Yahoo email account.

 

When I downloaded them from Yahoo! and saved them to my Documents folder and my Desktop on my new computer, many of them are now Microsoft Word 97-2003 docs with .doc extension. Some of them are still .docx from 2010; any new doc I create in my new computer is a 2010 .docx file.


Does anyone know what happened and can anyone tell me how to get these 97-2003 docs back to 2010? I tried to Save As to save as file type '.docx' but it wasn't an option in the drop down. As an aside, I don't see '.docx' as an option on any of the docs, and I thought for sure it was there before. I remember choosing Save As from MS Word 2010 on my old computer and the file type drop down being longer, I may be wrong (maybe I haven't downloaded all the MS updates that I had on my old computer??)

 

Thank you for your help.

 

P.S.

Printer locked up.

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 06:35 PM PST

When printing what I thought was a small article, I had to turn off my printer to prevent an entire book from printing.  Since then I have had an "error" light and cannot print anything --even though I cancelled all items in the print queue, etc.  Local friends could not help.

Lost Document, somewhere between Word and Sharepoint...in the Twilight Zone!

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 03:14 PM PST

An Office 2010 user checked out a word 2010.docx from a Sharepoint 2010 document library and proceeded to spend several hours editing it.

Then he saved the document and closed Word without checking the file back in. When he opened the document again from Sharepoint, it was the original version, with none of his work. We explained to him that since he still had the file checked out, it would not be on the server.  So, here's what we tried:

1. We looked in his MyDocs\Sharepoint Drafts folder, but the file wasn't there.

2. We had him check the file in.  THis should have flushed it up from his PC to the Sharepoint server from wherever it was hiding...but this didn't help.

3. We checked is Word/Options/Save settings and found that they were set to save checked out files to the Office Document Cache, not the Server Drafts location on this computer - which was properly defined as C:\Users\username\Documents\Sharepoint Drafts.

4. We figure that his draft should therefore be in the Office document cache.  But ...where is that???

5. After considerable searching, we found the office document cache but the file was not there.

6. We assume that the files in the office document cache, are what appear in the list when we open Word and see the 'recent documents list....but his draft is not in that list, either.

We thought that Word and Sharepoint were engineered in a way that makes it virtually impossible to 'lose' one's work....if we assume that this user is correct in saying emphatically that he saved the document numerous times during his editing session, as well as having saved it just before he closed it, then it appears that it may be possible to 'lose' your work....at least, so far, we have no clue how/where to find his draft!

What are we missing?

when I want to open word or excel file it says I need office 2010 when I have been using Office 2007 happily for the last 2 years. Is it something to do with windows file associations being changed?

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:19 PM PST

All my office icons have automatically changed to orange boxes including all the files in their folders. Since yesterday when I try to open a word or excel file it states that I need office 2010 to proceed. I have office 2007 installed and have had no problems since installation over 2 years ago. When I purchased the PC it came with office 2010 pre installed. Please can anyone shed any light on what has happend and how I can resolve the problem. 

Shapes

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 11:38 AM PST

I have a particular shape with specific attributes that I use a lot in documents (rectangle, fill color = orange, transparency = 60%, line color = blue, line dashed = square dot). Is there a way I can make a style, toolbar button, etc. that will format a shape this way without by having to go to Format Auto Shape and change the attributes each time.

Microsoft Word Photo Mail Merging from Hyperlinks

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 09:37 AM PST

I am trying to run a mail merge from a Microsoft Excel workbook into a Microsoft Word document.  I have been able to make all the fields work, but the photo field is giving me a headache.

My data is formatted in Excel as a set of hyperlinks, and the column name is "Photo."  Here is the field I created (using ctrl+f9 to create the field):

{includepicture "{mergefield photo}"}

This returns me the first photo from the Excel sheet, but when I preview the document or create the new document for the completed merge, every photo is the same as the first one; it's as if it doesn't move to the next cell in the spreadsheet.

This might just be an issue where Microsoft Word is a deficient product; I can't imagine why it wouldn't work, other than that.  But maybe I'm doing it wrong.  But it just seems odd to me that the mail merge can read from one data row to the next when it comes to text, but can't read from one data row to the next when it comes to a hyperlink.

How do I change a word in all occurances in a document in Word2003, E.g., change all the "we"s to "I".

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 09:36 AM PST

How do I change a word in all occurances in a document in Word2003, E.g., change all the "we"s to "I".

can I have different tab settings on the top and the lower part of one page

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 07:43 AM PST

need left tabs up here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

need decimal and right tabs down her

Very slow respose and application crashes

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:49 AM PST

Since I upgraded from Office 2010 to 2013 I have noticed a massive general performance drop, and Word and Outlook hang for long periods of time. The screen is usually greyed-out and/or with a "waiting" cursor. The only option is either to wait for ten minutes or more, or to kill the application from the task manager.

 The worst aspect of this is if you try to re-index an existing document, what used to take two to three minutes can now take up to ten times as long, and often the application crashes and the document cannot be repaired.

Is anyone else having these issues, or do you have a solution as this is really causing me a lot of grief?

Summary Tasks not 'Rolling Up' Microsoft Project

Summary Tasks not 'Rolling Up' Microsoft Project

Summary Tasks not 'Rolling Up'

Posted: 21 May 2004 03:41 AM PDT

Thanks Rob, I spent ages looking in my 'Bible' and in Projects Help pages but could't find the info that you supplied
Cheer
Have a good weekend !

MSP Versus Primavera

Posted: 21 May 2004 01:21 AM PDT

Hi, Rod

Thanks for that. What you've said concurrs with my general experience. Personally, I think it's more an "education" issue for the bosses. The company's history is steepd in "politics, pretty pictures and gut-feel" as opposed to quantifiable evidence provided by a correctly administered programme. According to some bosses, the project data is only right "...if the client says so"...therefore, if the client is using Primavera, by defintion the software must be right.

If you could make the same living out of either MSP or Primvera, which would you choose, and why?

James.

Handling TBA

Posted: 20 May 2004 08:01 PM PDT

Thanks a lot !
Gérard

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Project to Excel

Posted: 20 May 2004 01:21 PM PDT


Kevin,
Just a caution. Paste links will work but they have to be used with care
because they are prone to corruption. It's been a long time since I used
them but as I recall, if the Project file or Excel file is moved to a
different location the past links may not follow. Also, whether is is
apparent or not, a paste link has a component in both the source
document and destination document. When links are broken, the source
document should be saved first and then the destination document. If
both documents aren't saved there will be fractured link segments
remaining.

John

Gantt chart export?

Posted: 20 May 2004 12:16 PM PDT

Hello David,

If you like the format and look of the webpage but would
like to add the graphic image of the Gantt, you can.
Zoom out of the Gantt chart using View --> Zoom -->
Entire project.
Use the select all of the tasks in the task sheet.
Click the Copy picture button on the Standard toolbar and
capture the screen as a GIF image.
Save the file as a Web Page. Use the existing export
map "Export to HTML using the Standard template".
In the Export Wizard - Map Options page, click the option
for "Include Image file in HTML page".
Browse for the Gif.
Finish and now the Web page includes the Gantt chart
image.

Hope this helps.
Julie
 
timelines for the installations of multiple, yet seperate
pieces of equipment. I need to be able to transmit the
graphic image of the Gantt chart to coworkers in Europe
that do not have Project, in a form they can work with
for basic understanding of my schedualing. I have
published it as a PDF file but they complain things are
too small with the detail I am using in each timeline. I
looked at exporting to webpage, but I can not keep the
graphic nature of the Gantt. 

Installing Project 2003 on Windows Terminal Server

Posted: 20 May 2004 12:10 PM PDT

Once installed, there is not much management of Project 2003 standard...
are you using it for remote access? If not, best, IMHO, keep it on the
desktop (or at least same place as rest of Office apps ... if on Term
Server, then so be it).

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




gf wrote: 

reallocation of work for person on vacation

Posted: 20 May 2004 09:55 AM PDT

Kevin --

It sounds like you planned with good intentions, and then the "real world"
impacted your project plan! :) If you are not doing so already, I would
recommend that you conduct a variance analysis session after every reporting
period to determine what is happening with your project. I personally
perform three types of variance analyses: Schedule variance (Start and
Finish date slippage), Work variance, and Cost variance. The Schedule
variance analysis would have caught your situation. After analyzing the
schedule slippage on that task, and its cause (scheduled vacation), I would
then conduct a plan revision session to determine what is the best method of
deal with the variance. In your situation, it was to reapportion the work
to the two available resources on the task.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Project simply is not capable of doing the high
level thought required to reapportion the work the way we did. Frankly, if
it WERE capable of doing it, why would they need us to manage the project?
HA! :) Anyway, thanks for asking the question, and thanks for your kind
"thank you" as well. Good luck, my friend!

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Kevin Neher" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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manually. I can see how that would not be too bad for planning purposes
(one time setup). I guess in simplifying my question, I didn't tell the
full details, which is that I originally planned this task to happen earlier
when it didn't conflict with the vacation, but now upstream tasks are
sliding, which is causing the date for this task to slide into the person's
vacation. As things upstream adjust left and right on a weekly basis, I was
hoping that I wouldn't have to manually adjust the effect on the schedule,
but it looks like I might. 

Resource allocated to ongoing task

Posted: 20 May 2004 09:23 AM PDT

Hi Lynne,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

You could try changing the availability for that resource. From the
Resource Sheet view, double click the resource in question, and enter his
start date in the first Availabe From.. cell.

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

lynne baker wrote: 

Remove Vacation day

Posted: 20 May 2004 08:21 AM PDT

Hello George,

Instead of date constraint on the followinfg tasks, haven't you some actual
start ?

Gérard Ducouret

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Master Resource Pool

Posted: 20 May 2004 07:32 AM PDT


Cheryl,
I did some more research with the master resource pool concept and here
is what I determined.

When I said I thought a master resource pool worked when I tried it a
couple of days ago, I was only half right. To better understand what is
happening, the basic structure of a Project master file must be
examined. A dynamically consolidated master (i.e. master file with
linked inserted projects) is only a file of pointers to the subproject
files. Unless data is specifically entered into the master file itself a
master consisting only of subprojects has no data in and of itself. When
that concept is applied to a master resource pool with inserted
individual resource pools, the master resource pool has no resources
itself. That is why you do not see any resources when you try to assign
resources from the master. However, if one or more resources is entered
onto the Resource Sheet of the master itself, those resources (and only
those) will be available for assignment. That is actually what I did two
days ago so I got misleading results.

Basically the bottom line is that because of the structure of master
files in Project, a master resource pool made of up individual resource
pools will not work.

Ok, now that you can't get there from here, here is my suggestion. Even
though you did not want to have a single common resource pool for all
functional areas, that is the way to go. I would identify each
functional area as a resource group and create filters for each group
such that functional managers can apply the filter and see only their
resources.

I hope this clarifies what is happening and gives you a viable
alternative.

John

Uninterrupted task?

Posted: 20 May 2004 07:00 AM PDT

Hello Mike,

Very interesting trick !

Gérard Ducouret

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Salaried Exempt Employees vs. Actual Hours

Posted: 20 May 2004 06:57 AM PDT

Hi James & John,
Another possible option is to change the way you are
tracking the actual work. Track anything over 40 hours
per week using actual overtime field. If you set the
overtime rate for the resource as zero any work over 40
will cost nothing. You will still have the total amount
of actual work, but only accrue costs for the 40 hours.

Hope this helps.
Julie 
Number1 or 
exempt. You could also 
actual hours and 
cost tracking 
an hour paid. 

Columns Cut off

Posted: 20 May 2004 06:46 AM PDT

You could try these approaches ... but I expect you will find the results
unsatisfactory.

First, change the display resolution to something like 1600x1024. That
should give you a resolution that will enable you to display all the columns
you want. Unfortunately, at that resolution, the text will be so small as
to be almost illegible.

Alternatively, you might want to try using word wrap. Make the columns
narrower and make the row heights larger. Wordwrap will occur at a space.
This works for fields such as "Task Name" and date fields, but won't work on
Precessors or Successors since a space is not used as a separator.





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wrong date on gantt chart compared to project dates

Posted: 20 May 2004 02:44 AM PDT

You're welcome, Lynne :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


lynne baker wrote: 

Confusion with BCWP

Posted: 20 May 2004 02:21 AM PDT

Morning Julie

Thanks for responding with such a comprehensive answer. I understand what you mean and have some additional questions. I've emailed you off-group

Hope you don't mind

Thanks again
Vers

Gantt tracking controlled by something besides time?

Posted: 19 May 2004 10:11 PM PDT

Interesting question. I developed a maintenance scheduling system (for
buses, but the general issues and approach mirror your issues).

The glib (and, actually, accurate) answer is the project is for projects
(PMI defines them as unique occurances) not for processes (repeated
operations). While it _is_ possible to make Project work for processes, it
isn't the appropriate tool. As others will tell you, you can "force"
project to handle processes, but it isn't pretty.

Your real issue is that you are looking at two separate (actually 3)
processes: flight schedules, maintenance schedules (which are both
dependent on and independent of flight schedules) and crew schedules.

I strongly advise you to research other software applications for these
areas. Although you can put a lot of effort into making Project handle
these items, you will get much more "bang for your buck" (or hours of
overtime <sad grin>) by investing your time and effort in researching and
implementing a product tailored to your industry's unique requirements.

If I were the regulatory agency (you don't say where you are) I would regard
your current scheduling approach as workable but marginal. I think you
might find it useful to talk with agency staff to see if they can put you in
touch with similar-sized carriers (not competitors, obviously!) to discuss
with them the approaches they have successfully used.

You came to the Project newsgroups to find out how to use Project. I'm a
strong supporter of MS Project but this is one occasion when I would
enthusiastically encourage you to search elsewhere for a solution.

Regards
JLB, PMP


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scheduling and planning aircraft maintenance for a fleet of aircraft. 
most (hopefully all!) is scheduled and is based on one of three things -
date, aircraft flying hours, or aircraft cycles (number of landings.) 
aircraft is going to be used when, how much it is going to fly, etc. 
(I'm using 2000, incidentally) and let it show visually in a Gantt chart
(and resource graphs), so I can see when aircraft flight requirements
conflict with aircraft maintenance requirements and what work is going to
happen when. 
provided in the flight planning (approximate times and cycles) turn into
automatic "target dates" for maintenance actions. And off hand, without
getting DEEPLY into VBA (which I'm not good at), I don't see how to do it. 
flight times of the flights accomplished since last update, and
automatically be able to see how that affects my maintenance plan (what's
going to slide or move up based on more or less time on the aircraft?) 
overtime. 
flexible program there's got to be a way, somehow..... 

what's the usage of estimate duration

Posted: 19 May 2004 08:16 PM PDT

There is no difference except 2d? is means that the 2d is an estimate and
not yet confirmed. 2d is confirmed as a best prediction. There is a filter
for all tasks with estimated durations.

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example: duration is 27 day?). when I ajust the duration manually, the
duration will be removed "estimate" sign automatically ( for example,
duration is 25 day). 
the usage of "estimate"? any body can bring me out? thanks in advance :)

how to use LinkedFieldID to show linked field ID

Posted: 19 May 2004 10:39 AM PDT

You're welcome, Denis :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Denis wrote: 

How do I handle tasks that finish ahead of schedule?

Posted: 19 May 2004 09:31 AM PDT

OK, that explains it. I will try out your ideas. Thank you for your help.

Henrik

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