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Microsoft Word - Word 2010: Select Word-Only, Without Any Spaces


Word 2010: Select Word-Only, Without Any Spaces

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 02:32 PM PST

Here is the situation that annoys me more often than not. I click on a word to copy and paste. I want ONLY that word, without the space after it. I know, it is useful sometimes, but rarely to me.

I copy one word from one document and paste it to another document. Word 2010 automatically expands the word by adding one space at the end. The quirk is serious when I work with HTML pages. Even when I copy a group of words, like a URL, Word 2010 grinds my nerves with its over zeal. It adds one space to the left and one space to the left! That's catastrophic! The web address is not recognizable.

 

I've had this problem with all versions of MS Word I remember of. I know, I go to Settings, but the process is cumbersome. Incredible as it sounds, it doesn't even work! I start Options, Advanced, Use Smart Copy and Paste, click Settings, and then I deselect that stubborn Adjust word spacing automatically. Nothing changes! Sometimes, the Options come back to their previous settings after I restart Word. Sounds like the bullish software mocks me…

 

Anyway, is there a way to set this kind of preference without resorting to macros?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Ion Saliu,

Writer At-Large


shaperange inline shape conversion

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 02:14 PM PST

I need to be able to convert ole embedded objects from shaperange to inline shapes and from inline shapes to shaperange.

The question is how to do it when you do not have the application installed

Horizontal scroll or scroll lock not working in Office 2010/Win 7

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 02:06 PM PST

I have a Logitech g700 mouse that has a horizontal scroll option on the wheel. It does not work for Word or Onenote 2010 or Wordpad or desktop explorer. It does work for Notepad, Chrome and Explorer. This is the case with or without the Logitech software. And the case for my older MS 5000 mouse. Using the scroll-lock option and arrow keys gives the same results. But Excel 2010 allows horizontal scroll on both the wheel and the scroll-lock (!) 

 

What gives? [Yes, I've talked to Logitech support...you guessed it: they said "go ask MS"]

 

thanks,

 

Win 7 x64 SP1 (up to date)

Office 2010 doesn’t recognize the word “symbology“

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:20 PM PST

It seems strange that the word "symbology" would be left out of the MS dictionary.  "Symbology" exists in the Webster dictionary and while not commonly used it doesn't seem like a fringe word or a technical term used in a niche area.  Just wondering if it was left out or maybe a bug exists that doesn't allow it to be recognized. 

On a related note, Office wants to correct "Symbology" to Zymology: a science that deals with fermentation

Word restores/pops-up one of the previously-minimized open documents when opening a new document. How can I stop/prevent this?

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:18 PM PST

This is very, very annoying when frequently opening/closing documents when there are one or more already open/minimized documents (which are not grouped on the task bar, for easier switching back and forth, etc.).

The last time or two that I migrated to new versions of Word on a new PC, the problem didn't occur, and then it returned after a few days. It took are a few weeks this last time when migrating to Office 2013, which I though had at long last fixed this.

I've done lots of searching and found no solutions, despite going through lots of postings on this problem (which are described with slightly differing terms/phrasing, which makes searching a challenge).

Older supposed fixes (like removing "/dde" switch from word 8 & 12 registry entries for the Word command line for opening a file) aren't applicable.

On the earlier Microsoft forum discussions I've found, Microsoft appears to be totally unresponsive after running people through the same elementary checks. Very frustrating to read through a bunch of dead-end threads.

Does anyone else have any new information on this issue?

The left edge of my Reviewing Pane extends past the edge of the document window

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:23 PM PST

When I turn on change tracking and show the reviewing pane, the left edge extends past the left edge of the window so I can't see the first few characters.  I've tried opening and closing it, moving it from vertical to horizontal and back, minimizing and maximizing the Word window, changing the view and zoom level of the document, nothing changes.  The left edge is still obscured.

 

This hasn't always been the case.  I've used the reviewing pane a lot in the past, and have never had this problem until today.

Email Document Drirectly from Word 2007

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 11:48 AM PST

I have Win7 pro and Office 2007 pro. I want to email word documents directly from word, using my hotmail account, and I've enabled the email shortcut in the word rapid access toolbar. It doesn't seem to be working after configuring as follows:

-Installed (and updated) Outlook Hotmail Connector
-Configured my hotmail account in Outlook, using advanced options and selecting Outlook Hotmail Connector

I don't normally use Outlook, but simply access hotmail from a browser, so I don't know Outlook very well. Is there something else I need to do to make this work? Can someone provide me a link how to set this up?

Problem with captions in Word 2010 Pro on Windows 7 Pro

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 11:20 AM PST

Just today, during final editing of a large document with many cross references of headings and captions (tables, figures) I realised that as I inserted a new caption (table or figure, it does not matter) all the previous captions were modified according to the latest one. If it was "figure" everything prior to that became a "figure" as well. If later I added a "table" all previous captions (which were turned into "figure") turned into "table" as well, and so on.

I reopened the document, tried to see if there was any update to apply (unfortunately none, as I regularly apply updates), tried to open and repair the document (again no success). Apart from the table of contents, I also have a list of figures and a list of tables, one of which is empty while the other one contains all of them (figures and tables, depending on the latest caption with common numbering).

The document is large with enough (not a lot) of pictures and a size of approx. 20MB. Until a total number of 20 captions (again approx.) everything seemed to be in order and figures were separated from tables with different numbering. Any ideas?

Inserting a Caption Issues

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 11:14 AM PST

I am having an issue when inserting captions in to a document. I want the caption field to point to the section header, displaying the section number with a letter following. I am able to get this to work perfectly, however, every time I add another caption on another image, the previously completed captions reset to Balloon Style and will not register the section header. This is becoming increasingly agitating. We are using the section header formatting style. I am using the multi-level list option for numbering. Below in bold is the message that comes up on the captions when it resets. I tried changing my formatting style to the Balloon Text the caption defaults back to but receive the same error message when adding another caption. I am at a loss on this. Please let me know if you would like more information. 

Figure Error! No text of specified style in document..d

Word 2013 not working...incompatibility with another program

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 10:33 AM PST

I suddenly am unable to access Word 2013.  I get a message that there is an incompatible program, but I cannot get any information about what program is incompatible with my Word and I don't recall downloading any new programs.  My 2013 PPT and Excel are working.  My Word was working through Sunday November 10, when I shut down my computer.  When I started up the computer on November 19 (it was not on during the interim time) Word didn't work.

Please advise.

Thanks.


Right Tab Stop to the right of the Right Indent - Not Working

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 10:08 AM PST

You used to be able to place a right tab stop outside of the right indent, so that the tab actually appeared on the ruler to the right of the right indent. This was how a table of contents would be formatted so that if the heading title was longer than one line, the text would only go as far right as the right indent as it wrapped onto multiple lines, and then the page number would align farther right of the heading text at the tab stop. It now appears that Word 2013 (when it is not in Compatibility Mode) cannot recognize a tab stop if it is to the right of the right indent, so I cannot figure out how to get this alignment if the heading title is longer than one line.

 

The only way I can find that you can is to use manual returns at the end of each line of text with a dot leader tab on the last line, like this example:

 

   Really long heading title that is tremendously long so it goes longer than one line of text (RETURN)

   and in fact just keeps going on and on so that it spans multiple lines in the document (RETURN)

   instead of all fitting on one line of the document……………………………………………………………..............……….…3

 

How do I create an alignment like this within the paragraph settings without manually adding returns?

BEX - SHELL32.DLL - WINWORD.EXE

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 10:02 AM PST

I get this error message when I try to save sometimes in Word and program crashes. It is not every time but several times per day. 

I have tried using Microsoft FixIt, and changing DEP settings but it does not work. 


Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: WINWORD.EXE
Application Version: 15.0.4551.1001
Application Timestamp: 5234103e
Fault Module Name: SHELL32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.18222
Fault Module Timestamp: 51f1d731
Exception Offset: 0005d452
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033
skulcid: 1033

Default Settings in Word 2013

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 09:37 AM PST

Hi,

How do I set Word to open in Portrait orientation by default, it used to , but now it always opens in horizontal orientation.?


Also how do I set the default Font (Arial), Font Size (12 Point) and Colour (Blue)?


Regards,


Robin

FIND/REPLACE IN A WORD FILE

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 09:35 AM PST

I need to replace the abbrevation MSDS with SDS in 2,000 files saved in a Word folder.  Is there a search/replace tool that will do this?  I don't have time to open each file and manually replace MSDS with SDS.  I have Windows 7 platform.

Agonisingly slow typing in Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 09:12 AM PST

I've just bought Word 2013. Typing is agonisingly slow. I've seen people have problems with this elsewhere and it appears there is no solution? Can this be right? At the moment I can type almost a paragraph before the cursor catches up with me and I don't type that fast. It's getting ridiculous. Seems to be worse in a table, which seems to be a specific problem that others  have had. Is there any solution?

Microsoft Office Word won't start up.

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 08:53 AM PST

It says that it's updating and that it "shouldn't take long". It's been updating for two days now, and nothing has changed. What do I do to fix this and how long will it take? 

how to open docs from email with MSO Starter 2010

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 08:25 AM PST

I get the same message but when opening docs from an email, you cannot right click to change the properties or to save it on the computer.  when I follow the prompt to register the product key from the laptop which has the starter program, I get an error.  How can I save the doc from my email to be able to open it with the starter program?

Office- something went wrong. We weren't able to start your program.

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 08:10 AM PST

This is the third time this has happened this month when I have tried to open Microsoft Office University/365/whatever it's called. Point is, it tells me to go to the control panel and fix it. Quick repair doesn't work, and the online repair won't even try to fix the problem, and yes I do have internet connection. What should I do so that I can open office and hopefully not experience this problem in the future? 

How to ungrade justified alignment option in word file?

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 06:29 AM PST

Hi,
Recently I downloaded an university file-'word doc', in that most of the option are graded. When I type the sentences in file, I can't 'justify align' it. Could anybody let me know, how can I ungrade this option?

Regards,
Prajwal

Emailing Microsoft Word document for signature(s).

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 06:17 AM PST

I have a Word document I need two others to sign in addition to myself. 

I have inserted the three needed signature lines and signed my part. 

 

When I go to attach the doc to an email, it says all signatures will be stripped. 

Is there a way to route this doc for signature via email and retain each signature?

 

Thx, Jon

Help with a "text box"

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 06:11 AM PST

I am working on a document that was set up with, what I call, text boxes.  If you think of a document that contains the terms and conditions of a contract, but the wording does not go totally across the page, but stops midway, that's what I mean.  It's like there are two big columns on the page and the information for item 1 is about 5 lines, then item 2 underneat that, 10 lines, item 3 underneath that, etc etc.  The wording goes to the center of the page only.  Then item 7 jumps back up to the top of the page and the cycle starts again.  I hope I am making sense.  My problem is, the box that the words are contained in is fixed.  I need to be able to expand the size of the box to add some additional verbiage.  When I try to just insert, the new words just type over, it doesn't insert.

 

Anyone know how I can fix this?

 

Thanks so much.

Doc file(generated with a tool using a template) setting is getting changed in Office 2010

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 05:46 AM PST

Earlier we were generating some doc file with a tool using a template. When we are generating doc file in the system with Office 2003 it is coming in single page. But when we are generating the same in the system with Office 2010, in some system it is coming in single page in some system it is getting split into two pages, which should come in single page.  But in print preview it is coming in single page for those system also. As we are going to upgrade to Office 2010 we need to fix this issue. Kindly provide us the required information to fix this issue.

Correct

Incorrect

Cannot find heading in cross reference dialog (Word 2013)

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 05:36 AM PST

Hello,

I cannot find certain headings in the cross reference dialog box. After reading community and support posts and performing web searches, I'm now asking this question. I have tried a few thing to see if I can resolve the problem:
  • I have spot checked some of the missing headings and they appear to use the included headings styles.
  • I have selected the text of a missing heading to see if using a different heading style leads to an appearance in the cross reference dialog box.
None of this helps. The headings that are missing in the cross reference dialog box do show up in the headings listing side pane and do show up in the document's table of contents. Any suggestions on how to debug this problem?

Thanks.

Imbedded chart in a Word document

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 05:17 AM PST

I have a Word document that is created using Mail Merge. At the bottom of this document I have totals for certain products that are imported using the mail merge program. Within this document I have a chart that displays these prices in chart form, however I have to put the prices in by hand on the excel portion of the imbedded chart. Is there a way for the excel portion to read the prices that were imported during the mail merge?

Unable to save a word document (2013)

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:46 AM PST

Hi,

When I try to save the changes into existing word file, i'm unable to do it. When i press the save -button, the system goes into save as -mode. When I give the same name or different name and press the save button it come back asking the name. This is an ongoing loop going around and around withouot end. Well, it ends when i close the document without saving, hoping that in anothet time it will save the changes. And this happens if i try to use save as -form to save the document. There is no way to save any changes into the documents. And no, I am not using the read-only-document form so that is not the problem.

Any suggestions what might be causing this problem and how to fix this?

Br Maria

Adding column in table resizes other columns

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 02:25 AM PST

I prepare a table with custom size columns according to my requirement. But whenever I add a column it resizes all other columns and then I have to set the columns all over again.

In Table Properties, I keep Preferred width unchecked.

Please help me to avoid this problem because I use a lot of tables in my Word documents and I face this problem a lot.

Problem printing in Windows 8.1

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 02:22 AM PST

I have just upgraded to Windows 8.1.  My two printers have shrunk and wrongly centered Word 2013 documents.  I am in the middle of printing a newsletter so am desperate.  I rang Microsoft support, got transferred to a French answerphone, it rang off.  I am not allowed to ring again.


Update:  I have transferred my Word documents to my laptop Windows 7, attached the printers, and now am printing OK - but still need to know why Windows 8.1 is not printing corectly.


Update 2:  I converted word to a PDF, as suggested in one post, and it still prints small. 


Eureka:  I found hidden parameters in the printer profiles that had set paper size to letter.  I have changed these to A4 and now everything is working OK.  No problems any longer.


Windows 7 product key?????

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:59 AM PST

hello,

I have recently purchased Office 365 university and have completed the download successfully and it works fine, but yet when i try and open documents from my uni page it asks me to enter a product key for Windows 7 and it says that i only have 25 chances to open until i to renew my windows 7..
sooo how does that work?? My office 365 is only 2 days old so i know its not expired.. plss help ive got exams next week and this thing is not helping..

Trial subscription to Office 365 Home Premium

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:24 AM PST

I had a trial subscription to Office 365 Home Premium which has now expired but all my Word docs are now in Corel.  I want to put them back into Word - I was using Office Professional Plus 2010. Please can anyone help?

Composing and Printing.

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:54 AM PST

Hello,

I have to compose a document that was initially hand drawn on a 20 x 20 inch sheet (and it fits it completely), a time table;  Now, we got two different paper sizes one is A4 & the other is abit smaller than the legal page that's 8.5 x 13 inches. I'm trying to compose this document on MS Word 2007, How do I format the page so that it fits it completely?Should I try composing it in MS Excel maybe? I have an HP Laset Jet 1300 PCL6 printer running on a windows XP machine.

Please and Thankyou 

Not Responding

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 05:24 PM PST

I use Word everyday, a lot. I'm forever seeing "Not Responding", as I wait and I wait and I wait . . . .Why is Microsoft Word not responding on a more than regular basis? Thx

 

 

Moved from Windows 7 Programs Forum.

microsoft works suite 2006

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 05:23 PM PST

I  purchased  this  in  2006 .  it  came  with  6  titles/disks.  the  only  thing  I  use  or  need  is  the  title / disk  with  microsoft  word  2002  on  it.  I  am  looking  to  purchase  a  new  computer.  can  i  install  this  disk  with  microsoft  word  2002  on  it ,  into  my  new  computer ?

Uninstalled 365 2013 and install 2007 - word not working for Quickbook

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 04:31 PM PST

I installed Office 365 2013 and Quickbook.  Then uninstalled 365 and installed Office 2007.  After that the Quickbook cannot find Word.  How do I fix this?

Sharing Quick Parts

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 03:57 PM PST

I've made several useful quick parts that I want to share with my colleagues. They're currently saved in my normal.dotm. I've considered saving my normal.dotm as a .dot template and putting it in a networked folder, and pointing everyone's Word startup folder to that location. And I've considered saving my normal.dotm as a .dot template and emailing it to my colleages, but I'm not sure how they'd then make the quick parts from the template available to all their documents.

What is the easiest way to share quick parts? Am I on the right track?

And here's a subsidiary question: I recently tested out changing the location of the word startup folder for a colleague, and noticed that some (not all) of the quick parts had formatting changes. Any idea why that happened?

Get rid of em dash followed by a period at the end of a line.

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 03:53 PM PST

Hello, fellow Word users,

I need a little help with a query that I can't figure out. I need to get rid of em dashes at the end of lines. The em dashes are followed by a period. Like this: —.  I tried with ^+ which finds all the em dashes but I'm struggling to find only the ones at the end of a line followed by a period. In the wildcard list I don't see something like "end of line". Just "end of word". I tried: ^+> but it doesn't produce any results. Do you have any suggestion for me? Right now my only work around is to do it manually.  Thanks for any ideas you might have. Cheers.

Can I set a watermark in the print background of Project 2003 Microsoft Project

Can I set a watermark in the print background of Project 2003 Microsoft Project


Can I set a watermark in the print background of Project 2003

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 12:39 PM PST

Hi Patrick,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

I suggest you use File/Print Preview and then Page Setup where you can add a
Header or Footer to your prints.

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



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Differnce between Save and publish all information?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 09:33 AM PST

If you use Microsoft Project Server for team collaboration, you can publish
the most current project information so that others (such as team members,
project managers, or other stakeholders) can have access to it.

Project information published to Microsoft Project Server can be viewed in
the Project Center page in Microsoft Project Web Access.
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Microsoft PSS

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How to control order that resources are listed per task?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 09:03 AM PST

Thanks Davegb. Seems in the Assign Resources box (alt+F10) it keeps them in
alpha order, but you're right, when they display at the task level they seem
to be in order of assignment. I was looking in two places and it seemed
inconsistent.

"davegb" wrote:
 

Project timescale Half-Day?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:53 AM PST

Dave White wrote:
 

You could set your timescale to hours and set the count to 4. If you
have an 8 hour day this will be roughly half day.

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Project MVP
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Convert the units of Work from Dys to Hrs?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:37 AM PST

It is essential to understand that duration and work are not the same
measure. Duration measures time but work measures sweat. That is why I
always try to refer to duration by "hours" but work by its proper unit
"man-hours." If you had 1 man working full speed for 1 day, you have 1
man-day of work. If you have 1 man working full speed for 10 days, you have
10 man-days of work. BUT, if you have 10 men working full speed for 1 day
you ALSO have 10 man-days of work. Work measures the total useful output
you're getting and duration measures how long it takes to get it.

The units is a percentage that reflects how much of the duration is getting
translated into useful work output and so indicates the rate that work is
getting done. The Prime Directive is Work=Duration*Units. If I work 8
hours duration at 100% units, I do 8 man-hours of work. But if I do 8 hours
of duration at 50% units, I only do 4 man-hours of work. Maybe I'm talking
with my buddy and not working at full speed. Or maybe I'm juggling two
things at once and can't really devote full attention to either of them and
as a result each of them takes me longer to complete than if I was working
on just that one thing. If I have 1 person doing 10 days duration (80
hours) at 2% units, he does 80*.02 or 1.6 man-hours of work, spread out over
the 10 days of working time. In other words it has taken him 10 days to
achieve what WOULD have only taken an hour and a half if he had devoted his
full attention to it. 11 people working 48 hours duration at 2% units each
is 48 * .02 * 11 or 10.56 man-hours of work - the team is taking over a week
to accomplish what should have taken them only an hour if they had got their
act together and pulled together as a team to get 'er done ASAP.
--
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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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Viewing old MS Project files (pre 98) without the old software

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:15 AM PST

Nope - but you can probably get copy of P98 on eBay for just a few bucks.

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Problem with dates/durations on a plan containing imported data

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 08:05 AM PST

Hi Peter,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

On another tack, decimal durations often spring from a mis-match between
workin hours set in your calendars and those imposed by settings in
Tools/Options.../Calendar tab. You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default
Working Hours

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


Peter Rooney wrote: 



Calculated Field Overide?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 07:41 AM PST

Use two fields.
Example Text1, Text2
Use Text1 for manual entry
Put a formula in text2 which uses Text1 if it is not blank, otherwise use
the formula you wanted.

iif([Text1]<>"", [Text1], (whatever your formula is here))

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How can I allow shared edit access to a Project file?

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 07:19 AM PST

OK. ;-( Thanks, I'll start learning about linking .mpp files. ;-)

"Sarah" wrote:
 

Project allocating duration/resources

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 02:35 AM PST

Someone suggested creating a calendar showing Saturday and setting that as
the task calendar for that specific task and that's certainly a good way to
do it. As long as all resources have Saturday as a valid work day according
to their calendar you could also introduce a manual delay into the two who
are initially scheduled earlier in the week so they're moved to Saturday.
This is one of those special cases where manual methods take over.
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Can I use workgroup email in project 2003

Posted: 13 Jan 2005 01:43 AM PST

Once the add in has been installed the workgroup feature works as previous.
According to Microsoft the next version will not have the email capacity at
all. Backward step in my view as many small businesses can't afford to run
Project Server

"ALEE" wrote:
 

how do I constrain a task to a day of the week

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:31 PM PST

thankyou, that's perfcect :)

Paul

"JulieD" wrote:
 

How do I enter calender dates from 1960 in Project?

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:21 PM PST

Interesting application. I wouldn't have chosen Project for this. Would
probably use Excel, or a roll of butcher paper!

Sharing resources from a subproject inside a master project

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 02:33 PM PST

Hi,

This sounds different from what I am used to.
Are you using Project Server? Or a very old version of Project like 4.X?

Greets,
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assignments 
master 
and 
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tracking work and cost independently -- bug in MSP 2003?

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 01:39 PM PST

I see what you mean. But if you do set the task to 100%, the total cost
drops out the original cost of the resource work and reverts to just the
value you have manually entered into the actual cost. Using your figures
and setting work to 10 hours and entering $2000 as actual cost, your second
table there, it does in fact show remaining cost to be 22500 and total cost
to be 24500. But if you now set the task to 100% complete and enter $5000
in Actual Cost, remaining cost become zero, actual cost is your $5000
manually entered, and total cost is also $5000. While the total cost is
bogus while the task is in progress, once the task is complete it appears to
resolve itself and get back to reality.

As an aside, even if you don't know which resources will ultimately be
assigned, I'd suggest listing generic resources - senior engineer,
technician, etc - and doing the resource assignments anyway. The project is
a triangle of scope, duration, and resources and leaving off any side means
you only have part of the picture on hand to work with. You may not know
which engineers you'll have but if you know certain tasks need those skills
and you know how many you have to draw on, you can schedule your project
accordingly and avoid rude surprises later when you have more work scheduled
in a certain time period than you have resources available who have the
required skills. You can always come back later and fill in the names when
they're known.
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% work completed for subtasks

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 01:23 PM PST

First thing to check is to make sure automatic recalculation is turned on.
Tools menu, Options, Calculation tab.


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"Laney" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Don't laugh - need help w/basic reporting questions

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 12:23 PM PST

Great Matt. Glad to know you have your answers and thanks for the feedback.
Let us know if you have further questions, we'll be happy to help.

Julie

"Matt Kennedy" wrote:
 

Duration dates change when e-mailing to coworkers

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:35 AM PST

Can you give some more specific information - like what are the start and
ends dates and times of representative tasks in question and what is the
duration showing on each computer? What do the calendars have as the work
hours settings? Is automatic recalculation turned on (Tools, Options,
Calculation) with each computer?

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"Samantha" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Tracking Fixed Costs

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:23 AM PST

In the example you give, IMO the licenses and the servers would be materials
since they are incorporated in the project final deliverable. If I buy a
$5000 laptop to use as a workstation in our new network, the workstation is
part of the cost of the network and that makes it a material cost and all
$5000 is part of the project budget. It remains a part of the network after
the project is complete. OTOH, if I buy that laptop for an engineer to
carry around to various sites to test the network communications as we do
the installation it, its use in the project terminates when the project is
finished and we can then use it for other things in our organization or even
sell it if we wish. Its purchase price is not part of the project cost but
the portion of its value that is used up over the course of the project
would be. If we buy it for $5000 and resell it for $3000 6 months later
after our network is up and running, the cost to the project is $2000. We
can actually track that sort of cost by treating it as a work resource,
weird as that sounds. If our laptop will depreciate $2000 in its first year
of ownership, its "salary" is $2000/year or about $1/hr. If we use it for
10 hours setting up the router in location X, the cost to our project for
the laptop in that task is $10. That doesn't represent the total cost to
the firm but it does represent the portion of that cost that is part of our
project's burden. The rest of it has to be accounted for elsewhere.

In any case I would never track it as a task against which you book time.
Tasks are always, without exception IMHO, observable physical activity of
some sort. Rather it is either a material resource that is consumed by
tasks, a work resource that does work in tasks, or perhaps part of the
project overhead itself and carried as portion of the fixed costs for the
tasks or project phases where it is used.

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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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"ProjectUser" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Cannot change % complete after finish date has passed

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 10:15 AM PST

It sounds like what you are calling "tasks" are really summary tasks - they
are in bold and have sub-tasks indented underneath them, right? The real
tasks are the sub-tasks and that's where all the work takes place. Most of
the properties of summary tasks are calculated values only and things like
their start, end, and duration cannot be edited directly. The summary task
is complete when all of its subtasks are complete and not before. The start
and end of a summary are determined by the start of the earliest subtask and
the finish of the latest ending subtask.
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"Samantha" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Exporting a project into Visio as a flow chart

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 08:09 AM PST

What's wrong with the network diagram? That *is* a flowchart of the project
process if your WBS has been done correctly. If it's not, you really need
to re-examine the identification and linking of the tasks in your project
file before doing anything else because your WBS probably isn't a valid
model.

You didn't mention which version of Visio you're using. Since Visio 2000,
there has been a macro that imports Project mpp files and creates Gantt
charts, PERT charts (network diagram), or calendars in Visio from the data.
Unfortunately it was broken in Visio 2000 and I've never seen it work
properly in that version - the problem is in Visio itself and not dependent
on the Project version. But the good news is that it was fixed in
Visio2002/XP and later and works fine in the more recent versions. You'll
find it under Macros in the Visio Tools menu.

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"Rachmur" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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task type definition

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 07:45 AM PST

Probably should be "waxing fids" instead. Fids have to be nice and smooth
and well-polished. LOL


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"davegb" <com> wrote in message
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Can I Change the Calucation for Percentage Complete?

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 07:25 AM PST

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

Laney,
I'm not sure what you mean by "high-level task" but I assume you mean a
Summary Line. Also when talking about percentage complete I assume you
are referring to "% Complete" and not "% Work Complete" or "% Physical
Complete" (later versions of Project). I also don't know what you mean
by "least percentage complete" value. A Summary Line does not show the
least percent complete of its subtasks. Rather, it calculates % Complete
by the formula:
Summary % Complete = (sum of subtask Actual Durations)/(sum of subtask
total Durations) * 100%

The validity of % Complete at a Summary Line is always of questionable
value although I personally believe the formula shown above is more
valid than an average value would be. For example, what if one subtask
is 2 weeks in duration and all other subtasks are 2 days in duration?
More than likely the 2 week task is of more importance but in an
averaging scheme, its weight would be the same as the lesser tasks.
However, you can use any formula you wish to calculate % Complete for a
Summary Line. You will probably have to use VBA because a formula in a
custom field wouldn't know how many subtasks to include in the averaging
equation.

Now that you've go my take on the averaging method, If you still want to
pursue an averaging technique for % Complete at a Summary Line and need
help with the VBA code, post again and we can help.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Some of the Summary bars in the file contain different dates!!

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 06:41 AM PST

You might check to see that the file is sorted correctly. Do this from
project menu and sort by ID.

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Resource Group Question

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 06:37 AM PST

You are welcome Roman. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Roman Benko" wrote:
 

office 2008 and 2004 together Microsoft Office for Mac

office 2008 and 2004 together Microsoft Office for Mac


office 2008 and 2004 together

Posted: 13 May 2009 10:50 AM PDT

Additional to what the others have written: If the corresponding 2004 is
already running & you double-click a .doc or .xls in Finder the file will
open in that version - it's only if the 2004 app *isn't* running that
they'll open in the 2008 version.

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



On 5/13/09 1:50 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

ms office key displayed location empty

Posted: 13 May 2009 04:11 AM PDT

One more reason to get a mac! Thank you for your reply, I appreciate your
effort getting back to me.
Christel
future mac owner
--
forward


"christel" wrote:
 

Office software available

Posted: 12 May 2009 09:43 AM PDT

Office for Mac & Office for Windows have *never* been identical, nor have
the programs produced for the two ever been identical on a
feature-for-feature basis. I'm guessing that by the "version with the tabs"
you mean Office 2007 which is a Windows-Only radical departure from the UI
traditionally used on either platform.

If you intend to teach that version that's the version you need to have.
Office 2007 will run on the Mac in Boot Camp or using Parallels or VMWare
fusion... All of which require you to have Windows XP or later as well as
the Office 2007 software. Another Mac app called Cross Over - which doesn't
require having Windows installed - may be another option.

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac




On 5/13/09 11:01 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

transferring office suite from desktop to laptop

Posted: 11 May 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Joseph Piasek wrote: 

Hi,

Right click on the border of the chart. From the pop-up menu choose Edit
in Excel.

-Jim

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Mac MVP

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microsoft and apple

Posted: 10 May 2009 11:04 PM PDT

In article <caR9absDaxw>,
<com> wrote:
 

Oh, but you'll miss out on Vista v.2 - I mean...Windows 7.

MSO Cross-Grade Licensing From Windows To Mac

Posted: 10 May 2009 10:16 AM PDT

Yeah, the key phrase there is "support services" so I would say that it
"technically" would be a violation. If you're not actively using an Office
app on both systems simultaneously it's more a matter of conscience than
prosecution - I doubt you will be hunted down [although I'm not encouraging
you or anyone else to knowingly violate the EULA].

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



On 5/12/09 7:03 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Upgrade from 2004 Student & Teacher Editionto 2008 Professional Special Media Edition

Posted: 08 May 2009 01:03 AM PDT

Hi Guys,

Thanks for writing in, i am glad to hear from all of you.

I might just go for the version with Entourage since i have got use to it.

Really thank you all for writing in.

Cheers

XML File Converter app not installing

Posted: 07 May 2009 07:22 AM PDT

It isn't clear whether you've actually *installed* the converter. If you
have not yet installed it follow this procedure:

How to Install

To install this download


Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when you are offline.
Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications,
Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere
with the installation.
Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements.
Click Download, or click the link for the language version that you want.
Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk. If
you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop unless you
specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. To
check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then
click General.
Double-click the file that you downloaded in step 5 to place the Open XML
File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.2 volume on your desktop, and then
double-click the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.2 volume to open
it. This step might have been performed for you.
In the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.2 volume window,
double-click the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.2 application to
start the installation process, and then follow the instructions on the
screen.
If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the application
installer from your hard disk. To remove the application installer, first
drag the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.2 volume to the Trash,
and then drag the file that you downloaded to the Trash.




If you have already installed it but it doesn't run, this is from the
Mactopia Downloads:

If you have trouble installing this download, or using the converter
application after you install it, try the following:


Restart your computer and try installing the download again.
Make sure that the user account you use to authenticate the application
installer is an administrator account. For more information about
administrator accounts, see Mac Help.
If you experience problems opening the converter application after you
install it, make sure that /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office
Converter Support is installed on the startup volume. If it is missing, or
if any of the files listed above are missing, try installing the converter
application again.
If you continue to experience problems opening the converter application
after you install it, restart your computer, or try installing the converter
application again.

--
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
Office:Mac MVP

<com> wrote in message
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Hi all need to know how-to make protectedareas within a document that won't change no matter what!

Posted: 06 May 2009 11:21 PM PDT

ha, i see your point, but i am not really editing html, i am trying to write. in other words, the tags never change, just the text does, for hundreds of these. if i could just lock them into position, i would be fine, but ur right, the nature of processors is that they flow stuff around. isn't there a way to create a form in word, enter the text with editing capabilities, and then spit out the html/text? I guess this would be best done with a web app eh? but then i just have to cut and paste the text into that...hmmmm....

how do i use outlook under mac

Posted: 06 May 2009 02:45 PM PDT

On 5/7/09 3:53 AM, "Bob Jones" <cast.net> wrote:
 

If your complaint is you don't like the color, then that is out of our
control.

I suggest you install Parallels or Vmware and run Outlook under it. There is
nothing on the Mac that is like Outlook at this time.

Entourage is not Outlook

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/articles/entourage.html>

Office for Mac is not a Clone of WinOffice

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/articles/not_clone.html>

--
Diane

Safari History Question

Posted: 05 May 2009 11:04 PM PDT

From what I can tell, No, when you clear the History the History.plist file
is cleared & its HistoryIndes.sk is deleted. However you'd do best to
confirm that in the Apple Discussions group that deals with Safari:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

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



On 5/6/09 2:04 AM, in article C6267677.373C%net,
"Rafael Montserrat" <net> wrote:
 

12.1.7 breaking PPC binary?

Posted: 05 May 2009 01:38 PM PDT

Here is the problem. The permissions are being set incorrectly when running the standalone updater.

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/

drwxrwxr-x 9 root admin 306 May 12 10:12 .
drwxrwxr-x@ 3 root admin 102 May 12 10:16 ..
drwxrwxr-x 20 root admin 680 May 12 10:07 Frameworks
-rwx--x--x 1 root admin 20450 May 12 10:16 Info.plist
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 May 12 10:12 MacOS
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 9 Dec 1 2007 PkgInfo
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Dec 1 2007 Plugins
drwxrwxr-x 981 root admin 33354 May 12 10:16 Resources
-rwx--x--x 1 root admin 146 May 12 10:16 version.plist

If I change access permissions on the Info.plist and version.plist files, the applications will open without a problem.