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Office 2004 (Stud & Tea) wont run on MacBook Microsoft Office for Mac

Office 2004 (Stud & Tea) wont run on MacBook Microsoft Office for Mac

Office 2004 (Stud & Tea) wont run on MacBook

Posted: 13 Nov 2007 11:50 PM PST

On Nov 15, 3:34 am, "CyberTaz" <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> wrote: 

Yup, I did that, installed them all... but still it does the same
thing. The icon bounces for a moment... then disappears!

Doh!

upgrading

Posted: 13 Nov 2007 11:47 AM PST

On November14Wednesday11/14/07 4:29 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"net" <net> wrote:
 

Try applying the latest Apple combo updater for Tiger:

You might have to use "Remove Office" and reinstall Office then UPDATE!
After running the combo to get working again.

Running the combo updater from Apple overwrites potentially problem-causing
files. Combo updaters will install on the same version as they¹re
applying‹no need to roll back or do a clean install.

Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update (PPC)
<http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx10410combo
updateppc.html>

Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update (Intel)

<http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx10410combo
updatev11intel.html>


--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Use over a network/community calendar/address book

Posted: 13 Nov 2007 10:26 AM PST

On Nov 14, 6:34 am, John McGhie <name> wrote: 

John: thanks for taking the time to respond with such a detailed
answer. Not what I wanted to hear, but good to find out now before I
buy 6 copies of MSoffice.

Bought Office 2008 Beta and now it says it's about to Expire

Posted: 12 Nov 2007 09:56 PM PST

Hi Jim:

Let's be a little realistic, shall we? You can "pay money to some crook for
a beta version of Microsoft software". That's like buying a stolen camera
in a pub. Paying money for something that is stolen in the first place is
not the same as "buying" it.

When you buy something, you get the legal right to use it.

You have paid money for the right to go to jail :-) As Jolly Rodger said:
not to bright :-)

In this case, I advise anyone who has a copy of Office 2008 to get it off
their machine SOON.

It may APPEAR to "activate normally", but I also know that if you allow it
to do so, you WILL regret it :-)

Surely you are winding us up? Surely you do not actually believe that the
largest software company in the world is going to issue beta versions of
(what may be the next release of) its software in such a condition that they
can be safely cracked? Really?

I cannot understand why anyone who sets out to steal from a company that has
a larger security team than many police forces, thinks it's a good idea to
post announcing the fact, to a server owned by that company! Did I miss a
news report? Has the H5N1 Chicken Flu virus finally mutated to a "Darwin
Virus"? (The Darwin Award is given posthumously to the person who finds the
stupidest way to remove themselves from the gene pool each year...)

Cheers


On 14/11/07 4:40 PM, in article C35FED7E.4EA%net, "Jim
Graham" <net> wrote:
 

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Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
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Office 2004 update 11.3.9 weirdness

Posted: 12 Nov 2007 06:39 AM PST

In article <microsoft.com>, JE
McGimpsey <org> wrote:
 

I'll third that. Also, as a preventative measure, one might consider
hopping into in Finder preferences È general to inhibit display of hard
disk icons on the desktop.

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Installation of Office 2004 on OS X 10.5 Leopard

Posted: 12 Nov 2007 01:25 AM PST

Hi Ratliff,

The framework error is a result of not installing the office updates. Did
you attempt to manually install any updates? The way to launch the
autoupdate utility is from the Help menu of any office application.

EndNote X has no known compatibility problems with Word or Leopard. I just
installed Leopard, then Office 2004 and Endnote on a new laptop today.

By any chance do you still have the trial version of office on your
computer? If so, use the Remove Office tool to get rid of it, as the trial
version may be trying to be the default application instead of the actual
version.

-Jim


Quoting from "com" <com>, in article
googlegroups.com, on [DATE:
 

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Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

New Installation & Update

Posted: 12 Nov 2007 12:00 AM PST

On November12Monday11/12/07 1:16 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Check the Microsoft Component Plugin in the Office folder. It will show what
update has been applied.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

New Macbook with OS X Leopard won't load Office 2004

Posted: 11 Nov 2007 08:47 PM PST

Was the Office packaging sealed? I have a sneaking suspicion that someone
bought the package, swapped the disks, then returned it for a refund.
Examine the labeling on the disk to verify that it *is* 2004.
--
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Jim Gordon MVP" <com> wrote in message
news:C35E546F.25109%com... 

Powerpoint presenter tools

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 06:56 PM PST

Hi,

Yes, this is possible.

You would create a visual basic macro (very short) that would activate
presenter tools for you.

Here's a problem with me answering your question - my own time crunch. I
started to work this out and now I am leaving on a trip till next week.

So that you can see how far I got with your answer I'm posting what I have
so far. Essentially, my plan is to programmatically open the powerpoint file
and then programmatically click a Presenter Tools button.

Here's a the beginning of the set of steps you could take. I hope someone
fills in the rest while I am away. Otherwise we will have to pick this up
again on Thanksgiving weekend:

From the VIEW menu choose TOOLBARS then CUSTOMIZE TOOLBARS/MENUS

Click the NEW button and name the new Toolbar (for this example I'll call it
Presenter).

Click the COMMANDS button and then drag the PRESENTER TOOLS icon from the
menu to your new toolbar.

Click the TOOLBARS button (back to where you were a few seconds ago)

Click MENUBAR in the left side then click the RESET button (that restores
the PRESENTER TOOLS command to the menu without removing it from your new
toolbar). Don't worry if the menu disappears or looks screwy at this point.

Click the OK Button

From the VIEW menu choose Visual Basic to see the VB Toolbar

Click the VISUAL BASIC EDITOR button.

From the menu choose INSERT then MODULE

Paste the following into the module:

[VBA code goes here]

-Jim



Quoting from "com" <com>, in article
googlegroups.com, on [DATE:
 

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Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

C:\ExchSrvr\mdbdata\Priv.edb - VBS.Bagle.X worm. - Microsoft Exchange

C:\ExchSrvr\mdbdata\Priv.edb - VBS.Bagle.X worm. - Microsoft Exchange

C:\ExchSrvr\mdbdata\Priv.edb - VBS.Bagle.X worm.

Posted: 06 Sep 2004 06:09 AM PDT

You are scanning the priv.edb with flat-file AV software?



On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 06:09:39 -0700, "Kay Kay"
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 

9GB of exchange logs in MDBDATA folder.

Posted: 06 Sep 2004 03:38 AM PDT

Do you have the Exchange agent installed? What version of Exchange are you
using?

"Leon" <ap76_at_email.com> wrote in message
news:ugUG$phx.gbl... 

configuring Exchange 2003

Posted: 06 Sep 2004 12:45 AM PDT

Not without third party software called a POP connector...not recommended.
Do you have a registered domain name? You can host your own mail on the
Exchange server very easily....perhaps want to wait til you decide to go
with Exchange or not.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF002.html is written for E2k but will
work with E2003 as well. Read it for an overview of how this works.

alanwforbes wrote: 

Priv.mdb

Posted: 05 Sep 2004 10:39 PM PDT

try ontrack ...
cheap and speed, in the site you find a demo to recover data from exchange,
without log file.... only with a copy of your db.

"Cold_Boot" wrote:
 

UN-INTENDED EMAIL

Posted: 05 Sep 2004 12:36 PM PDT


<microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:65f601c49384$89f30db0$gbl... 

No. BCC doesn't show up - that's why it's 'blind".
 

Not sure what you mean. If you had/have service-account level access, you
have access to everything in a mailbox. If your company is serious about
security, they will have enabled audit logging, though. And probably not
allow people to have full mailbox access. How are they saying you got access
to this message?
 

 

Rejected Mail

Posted: 05 Sep 2004 07:12 AM PDT

You can still have a copy of undeliverable mail sent to whatever mailbox you
like - set in the properties of your SMTP server. I personally don't
bother - I think it's the recipient's responsibility to address mail
correctly and if they get an NDR, they'll try again. If you have a user with
a commonly misspelled email address, you can add another email address with
the misspelling if you want.

Postmaster Bob wrote: 

Unable to reply in OWA

Posted: 05 Sep 2004 05:02 AM PDT

No pop-up blockers and XP SP2 not installed yet.

 
returns me to the inbox 

Changing the Sent From Field in Exchange Outlook 2003

Posted: 03 Sep 2004 12:30 PM PDT

dankim wrote: 

Correct his Display Name in Active Directory Users & Computers.
 

This one's fine - but note that a lot of things in SBS are different, so
m.p.windows.server.sbs may be a better place in the future. 

Badmail problem

Posted: 03 Sep 2004 09:35 AM PDT

The sender did not get anything back. As far as I can tell the events must
have been as follows:

1. Our Exchange 2003 server go the message for the 3 users but did not
deliver it to them.
2. It generated the exact NDR yoiu see below in the .BAD file but did not
send it to the original sender.

This concerns me because I see this message which should have been
delivered, but was just dumped in the badmail folder. I find it strange
that it also tried to create an NDR, but failed to send it to the valid
sender.



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

NUL characters are not allowed

Posted: 02 Sep 2004 02:02 AM PDT

Yes, the email was sent in HTML format. But if we would to
send the html format to another domain eg yahoo.com, there
is no problem.

So we are trying to find out how to check if there is a
NUL character in the email.


Cheers,
May
 
the articles were 
message 
for 
not 

Delayed and bounced mail woes AAaaarrrrghh

Posted: 01 Sep 2004 03:19 AM PDT

Thanks Glen.

OWA Stops working

Posted: 30 Aug 2004 10:06 AM PDT


"Mike" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5f5d01c49223$30c34230$gbl... 

We have had extremely good luck with owa in about 15 installations, as well
as our own. These, however, are small installations < 150 users. We always
use ssl, denying access through port 80 at the router or firewall, and
typically do forms based authenticaion. OWA 2003 is, in my opinion, a good
selling point due to its unified look and field when compared to OL2003.
Honestly, I can't remember a single crash, or even having to do iisreset. I
wonder how many others out there have owa horror stories.

Microsoft Word - How do I get a blank document template when I open Word?

Microsoft Word - How do I get a blank document template when I open Word?

How do I get a blank document template when I open Word?

Posted: 04 May 2013 11:08 AM PDT

I don't like to see dozens of templates that I'll never use when I open up my new 2013 Word. Is there a way that I can customize the program when I open it so that only a blank document is visible. I don't mind the material in the left pane, but I'd like the right pane clean on opening.

Word 2010 text-to-speech stalls

Posted: 04 May 2013 10:11 AM PDT

I have Word 2010 in a Windows 8 operating system. When I use Text-to-speech in Word, it will work fine for a few paragraphs then stop. I have to re-highlight and start again. Is there a way to fix this?

I cannot open Attachment in email.I get the message Microsoft Office Word requires tje file msointl.dii to run Run set up again--How do I do this?

Posted: 04 May 2013 09:37 AM PDT

The programme is Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007  12.0

Set justified para alignment as a default

Posted: 04 May 2013 09:15 AM PDT

By default, the para is set to left alignment.  Can someone advise me how to change it to justified para alignment as a default.  Thanks!

Urgent question - how do I print seven pages of same label without having to redo everything and still only getting one copy printed. Going nuts!!!!

Posted: 04 May 2013 04:17 AM PDT

Trying to print ordinary labels on Avery Laser Code L7159 or Inkjet Code J8159 on Canon MX870.  Never had problem before.  All the 24 labels on the one page are the same.  So I put the details in on the label heading, checking print same label on full page, put 7 sheets of labels in rear tray and only one sheet is printed.  The big pain here is that if I want to do the seven pages, I have to go through all this another six times.  With the 200 pages I have to complete urgently, I am going absolutely crazy.  Have been working on this for 36 hours.  Tried all options I can think of but still one at a time.  Can someone help me PLEASE.    Thank you.

Office upgrades cause my OS to shut down Microsoft Office for Mac

Office upgrades cause my OS to shut down Microsoft Office for Mac

Office upgrades cause my OS to shut down

Posted: 11 Nov 2007 09:49 AM PST

In addition to Bill's comments see the in-line below:


On 11/11/07 12:49 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Did you do this because of some specific symptoms or just because you had
nothing better to do one rainy Sunday?:) Details?

OS X 10.4.what? When you reinstalled everything did you also *re-update*
everything? Reinstalling effectively sends you back in time & if all updates
don't get reapplied - in the correct order - you might experience this type
of behavior.
 

If you mean that the Mac is automatically rebooting itself every when you
start up this can be a symptom of what was referred to above.
 

Like Bill wrote, it is a virtual certainty that Office is not at fault here.
It may appear to be since it sounds like you've applied Office updates which
are dependent on OS X updates & that those are not being found. So, again,
updating OS X completely & correctly along with the other diagnostics Bill
suggested should correct the problem. 

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Remote Desktop in Microsoft Office 2004 folder

Posted: 11 Nov 2007 08:40 AM PST

Hi Prof -

I'm guessing here, but to offer you a less technical "insight" - Is it
possible that you had the Mac (or at least Office) set up by the IT folks?
If so they may have simply used the same "standard" installation procedure
as they would for in-house Macs which might include the RD software -
especially if the school has a mixed bag of Mac & PC users.

That may explain how it got there, but like Bill says there are at least 2
different "remote desktop" apps, so it isn't certain which one you have.
Neither should be of concern other than whatever amount of disk space it
occupies... Have you noticed any anomalies?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 11/11/07 2:31 PM, in article
com, "College Professor"
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Icons missing and quitting unexpectably

Posted: 09 Nov 2007 09:32 AM PST

Additional to John's suggestions:

Reapply the Apple OS X Combo update
Reapply the latest QuickTime update
Repair Permissions
Make sure Office is fully updated

If no change you might also run Disk Utility - Verify Disk & proceed
accordingly if errors are found.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 11/9/07 12:32 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Office 2008 monaco 9 pt anti aliased

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 11:13 PM PST

Why would you even ask?

The Office 2008 suite isn't scheduled to be available for another 2 - 2 1/2
months. As John points out anybody who replies would have to be using a Beta
version - probably not the latest and most likely an illegal/pirated copy at
that. How reliable, useful or informative could such "information" possibly
be?

The purpose of the newsgroups is to help users resolve issues with versions
of the software *currently* in use, not to speculate on what may or may not
transpire in future versions... There are plenty of "chat-rooms" out there
for that type of pointless banter:-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 11/9/07 2:13 AM, in article
googlegroups.com, "formulateaffinity"
<com> wrote:

Anyone have 2008 and can get monaco 9pt and tell me if it is not
busted like it was in the Office 2004?

Can't install Office 2004 on Leopard

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 09:00 PM PST

On Nov 9, 4:29 pm, Diane <entourage.mvps.org> wrote: 

I found the problem: An alias for the folder Microsoft User Data
pointing to a non-existent folder (as the new installation hadn't
created it yet.

But thanks for your time!

Upgrade question, Office X to 2004

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 08:23 PM PST

Thank you Diane, i will give it shot...thanks.

i will note the updates too.

On Nov 8, 11:56 pm, Diane <entourage.mvps.org> wrote: 

Update 11.3.9 for Office

Posted: 07 Nov 2007 04:10 PM PST

On Nov 8, 10:43 am, JE McGimpsey <org> wrote: 

Just ran update, WordPDE shows 11.3.9 Word still shows 11.3.8, still
crashes with networked users.

Office Update 11.3.9

Posted: 06 Nov 2007 06:11 PM PST

Send your suggestion via Help --> Send Feedback.

--
Diane
 

Annoying visual glitch with vertical toolbars in Excel/Word 2004.

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 06:18 PM PST

On Nov 6, 11:05 am, JE McGimpsey <org> wrote: 

Just updated and it did not solve anything.

Problem still exists in:
Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac 11.3.8 (070817)
Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 (070724)
Microsoft Powerpoint 2004 for Mac 11.3.5 (070411)

Microsoft Word - Have just recieved the disc for Word 2013. Put disc in comptor, press install, then allow but nothing happens. disc just stops. Cost $149 whats going on ?? Is their something I am not doing ?

Microsoft Word - Have just recieved the disc for Word 2013. Put disc in comptor, press install, then allow but nothing happens. disc just stops. Cost $149 whats going on ?? Is their something I am not doing ?

Have just recieved the disc for Word 2013. Put disc in comptor, press install, then allow but nothing happens. disc just stops. Cost $149 whats going on ?? Is their something I am not doing ?

Posted: 03 May 2013 07:19 PM PDT

Have disc form Microsoft Word 2013 with instructions. Insert disc, click on run & install, click on allow & then nothing happens the disc just stops. What am I doing wrong ?? Cost $149 not impressed. Got the disc because internet connection sometimes stops so thought this would be easier. Instructions are very simple but not working. !!!

I am trying to create an IF function in a word table. I keep getting Syntax error.

Posted: 03 May 2013 05:52 PM PDT

There is little information on the web about it.  I want to do this.  =IF(Boomark)="R",0,0.1)  This is to be able to give a conditional result depending on the letter entered in a bookmarked field.  Unfortunalety no combination of code, spaces, commas, brakets, inverted commas or the like will give me a result. 

I am using 64 bit operating system.

{=IF{Bookmark}="R",0,0.1},  or any combination I have tried does not work.  I most get syntax error but also get bookmark error in some combinations.

Any help much appreciated

Squares in my page.

Posted: 03 May 2013 04:22 PM PDT

Recently I have tried to use my Microsoft word program, but every time I open it, the page has a huge square divided into little squares in the whole page. I don't know how to take that off the page.  Does anyone knows what that is? or how to make it disappear? 

what is package

Posted: 03 May 2013 03:21 PM PDT

I am trying to merge WORD 120 files into one word file. I get the call for package?

bullet points without content?

Posted: 03 May 2013 04:49 AM PDT

Can we have bullet points without any content?
I have a client who for some reason would like to have a list of bullet points but no type...is it possible?
Thanks
Jen

The instructions to change Normal.dot do not work. How do I change Normal.dot

Posted: 03 May 2013 02:02 AM PDT

I have followed the instructions to change Normal.dot to the letter FOUR TIMES and they do not work.  Does anyone have the instructions to change Normal.dot that work?

DocX Weirdness

Posted: 02 May 2013 05:29 PM PDT

All of a sudden after several years, docx files don't open in Word, but my photo program tries to open them.  What the heck?  How do I fix this?

printer kodak

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 02:36 PM PDT

Microsoft office 10 and adobe acrobat  xl pro will not pint in windows 7 Kodak printer set as default  

Printing Gant Sheet... Microsoft Project

Printing Gant Sheet... Microsoft Project

Printing Gant Sheet...

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 08:25 AM PDT

Hmm.. it works on mine - try:
http://tinyurl.com/47a29

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Jonathan wrote: 

Total Project Progress

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 08:08 AM PDT


"Sergio Mogollon" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le
message de news:com... 
total budget I would get the % completed of the whole project.

Tools / Options / Views / Show Project Summary task
 

Try the Analyse Timescaled Data in Excel feature (display the Analysis tool
bar)

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret
 
dans 
does 
the 

Resource sharing problems

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 07:51 AM PDT


Hi Jan,

Thanks. I figured it out: 1)I had to have the resource
pool project open, 2) Share the resources (from resource
pool project' in subproject1, 3) Share the resources
(from resource pool project' in subproject 2, then 4)When
using the master file (or any subprojects), the resource
pool file has to be open as well. #4 was the trouble for
me....

Anyway, thanks for your response.

KJS
 
select the pool, not 
bericht 
When 
(Tools>Resources>Share 

Gannt Chart and Start Date

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 07:08 AM PDT

That works. Thanks much and thanks for the great website! 
as I want it by 
When I open it again, 
information can be seen at 
and 

Big problem with printing

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 06:43 AM PDT

Hi Marijan ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 44. Printing Problems

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on:-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP

Marijan Glavac wrote: 

Should I be using estimated durations?

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 06:04 AM PDT

Jeremy,

To add to Steve's comments, if you don't have historical performance, then
all you have is an estimate.

To the best of your ability, try to get directly comparable experience when
making your estimate. And if you don't have the experience, find someone who
does or find someone who can find someone ...

And, as you run your project, keep track of actual results. Use the actual
results to improve your future projects.

FYI I teach a great program on estimating (he says modestly)...

Mark
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__________________________________________________ _______
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Principal, Oak Associates, Inc, www.oakinc.com
"Advancing the Theory and Practice of Project Management"
__________________________________________________ ______

The nicest thing about NOT planning is that failure
comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by
a period of worry and depression.

- Sir John Harvey-Jones
"JeremyE" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 
take. For example, I have a task "Database Schema Design" that I guessed
would take 31 hours and sure enough it only took 15 hours to complete. At
this point to track my progress and I am going into the Task Sheet and
entering "Actual Work" for that task. Then I go to the Gantt Chart/Work
View and set the remaining work to zero which automatically sets the %
complete to 100 %. But did I make the mistake of not setting ALL of my
durations to estimated? I wasn't clear on when estimated durations should
be used when I created the project plan, and I think that was a mistake.
Could anyone give me some guidance? I can easily change all the durations
to estimated, but I want to make sure that is what I should be doing. 

Project Progress Lines

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 02:28 AM PDT

Hello Steve,
I totally agree with Rod Gill's principles of tracking. I never use the
Progress line for traking a project. These Progress Lines are an heritage of
the elastics used in the old days wall slot-in planners.
But if you really want to say that today you already worked on the next
week, you can check the following option, before entering the actual data :
Tools / Options / Calculation / Edits to totals task % complete will be
spread to the status date.

Gérard Ducouret [Project MVP]
PragmaSoft ® - Paris

"Steve Webster" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le
message de news:2c54201c46984$f4da4000$gbl... 

daily cost

Posted: 14 Jul 2004 02:10 AM PDT

You've stumbled over one reason why I frequently say Project is not a
replacement for accounting software. It's the accounting system that should
be tracking the overall finances of the firm. Project's budget is only a
small part of that, one contributing expense out of many. If I have a
resource that gets $100 per day and I use him for 4 hours on one of the days
in my Project, the cost to the firm may well be $100 but the specific cost
of using him in my project for that day is $50. The other $50 is part of
the firm's overhead (if he didn't do anything else) or part of the budget
for whatever it was he did the other 4 hours of the day but emphatically
should NOT be included as part of the project's costs. MS Project does a
good job of tracking the actual budget of the project but it's not intended
to track the impact of those costs on the overall budget of the firm. Look
at it this way - the project budget, which consists mainly of resource
costs, is the cost of doing that specific project. If we didn't do it at
all, the budget *for that project* would be zero even though the firm would
still have to pay out the same amount of money in salary to the resources on
staff.

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


"Maileen" <com> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

Duration vs Work Effort in Overallocations

Posted: 13 Jul 2004 10:00 PM PDT

You have a couple of options. The fundamental identity in Project is
Work=Duration*Effort and you cannot under any circumstances violate that.

Assuming here that Mary is available for a maximum of 100% thus she is
overallocated when she is used more than that over any time period, even one
minute. In your example you have Mary's work is 1/4 hour on each of two
tasks and each task has 1 day duration. At face value that corresponds to
an effort percentage of about 3%. So if the two tasks are scheduled on the
same day she is only being utilized a total of 6% and the overallocation
will go away by making her assignment to each task 3% and the duration one
day.

Another way to resolve it is to set the duration of the task to reflect the
actual time that you expect it will take each one to complete when it
starts. IMHO, this is the preferred way. She may only need to get the task
done sometime on Tuesday but that does NOT mean that the task is one day in
duration. If the task requires 1/4 man-hour of work to do and when Mary
starts on it she will devote her full attendtion to it, then the duration is
..25 hours. The fact that she could do it anytime on Tuesday that she likes
is irrelevant. I'd make the task's duration 1/4 hour, her assignment
percentage 100% and let Project calculate the work. If both tasks are
placed on Tuesday by a predecessor that finishes Monday, as an example, they
will initially both start at 8am and Mary will be overallocated. But
resource leveling on a minute-by-minute basis will take care of that,
shifting one task to start when the other has finished with a resulting
schedule showing Mary working a total of 30 min, task A from 08:00 to 08:15
and task B 08:15-08:30. This way Mary shows free for another 7 1/2 hours of
work that day and whatever follows on after those two tasks can get
scheduled on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, generally a good thing to get
your project done sooner.

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



"John Mc" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Master Project problems

Posted: 13 Jul 2004 03:53 PM PDT

John,

Thanks so much! It worked like a charm!

The sharing information was very useful as well...

Thanks again,
Kelley 
found that two 
but I generally 
select all 
reason this is not 
Then select the row 
subproject2. 
same indenture 
subproject2 first or 
been inserted. 
as to what 
However, if a master 
tasks of its own) 
occur. For 
subprojects themselves, it 
do sharing, you 
and do the sharing 
hopefully it 

task lenght doubles when second resource is allocated

Posted: 13 Jul 2004 11:30 AM PDT

The percent is the percentage of the resource's workday, not the percent of
the task's total effort that each one does. If someone is doing 1 man-hour
work on a task whose time extends over an 8 hour workday, they're working at
13%. They may be the only person on the task or one of a hundred people, it
doesn't matter. 13% means the task requires 1 man-hour to do but extends in
time over about 8 hours because the resource is doing other things at the
same time. If he works at it 100%, he will do the required 1 man-hour in
one hour time start-to-finish. 100 resources doing 100 man-hours of work at
100% effort is entirely possible and that task too will run for 1 hour on
the clock.

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



"Jim" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 
ona task? IE, if I have 2 resources each doing half a task, should it be
50%...4 resources allocated at 25% ea, etc? 
have a task that I've estimated taking 10 hours. I'd like to allocate two
resources to it, with the task length split between the 2 resources. When I
allocate the resources, however, the length of the task double to 20 hours,
with each resource allocated for 10 hours ear. If I add 4 resources,
instead of allocating 2.5 hours each, the task time increases to 40 hours. 

Saving Task Usage View as PDF ????

Posted: 13 Jul 2004 11:26 AM PDT

Hi,

See FAQ item #16: Project Viewer on the Project MVPS
website :-)

http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

HTH,
--Jason
 
attachments sent to them. 

Estimate duration from man-months remaining

Posted: 13 Jul 2004 08:59 AM PDT

Did you try my "rough" approach? What answer did you get? I'll bet you won't
like the answer because it will make your project much later than hoped.

BTW Jan is right, your queston is too complicated for us :-)

Mark


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__________________________________________________ _______
Mark Durrenberger, PMP
Principal, Oak Associates, Inc, www.oakinc.com
"Advancing the Theory and Practice of Project Management"
__________________________________________________ ______

The nicest thing about NOT planning is that failure
comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by
a period of worry and depression.

- Sir John Harvey-Jones
"terrapinie" <com> wrote in message
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Duration Box

Posted: 13 Jul 2004 08:45 AM PDT

Always been kind of curious about this option. I thought they were all
estimates until they became actuals....

David G. Bellamy
Bellamy Consulting


"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message news:<phx.gbl>... 

What's the best way to track progress?

Posted: 13 Jul 2004 08:06 AM PDT

Thanks Jan, that is what I am using now. I have a problem with estimated duration that I am going to create a new post for since it is somewhat unrelated to this...

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Resources Overallocated with .08 hours/day!

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 10:10 AM PDT

How many total hours do you have allocated to that
resource per week? I hesitated to respond to this because
I vaguely remeber the nightmare this gave me. It seemed
as if MS Project 2002 had a bug in this area. I remember
going to resource usage (or allocation) and manually
deleting the areas that were red. Add another resource if
everyone else is overloaded. Also check to see if the
resource is assigned 100% to your project.

 
I have to clarify. 
are only set to work for 7.2 hours/day. Their typical
work day is 8 hours (as is set in the calendar).
Sometimes they show as overallocated when they only have 1
hour of work per day! 
them it fixes things, and the overallocation is gone, but
I shouldn't have to do this! 
the plan to the "higher-ups"! 

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Numbering. Right-align numbers before paragraphs.

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I would like the numbers for numbered paragraphs to be right-aligned before the paragraph, I would get:

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  9. Paragraph 9
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I haven't figured out a way to do this with automatic numbering.

What I get instead is:

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