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Tracking % complete for fixed work task Microsoft Project

Tracking % complete for fixed work task Microsoft Project

Tracking % complete for fixed work task

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 01:55 PM PDT

In addition to Mikes comments, make sure you're clear on the difference
between work and duration. % Complete in Project refers to duration, not
work, even on fixed work tasks. There is a whole different field, % Work
Complete, that refers to the work progress. They may be the same, perhaps
one could even say they usually are the same, but that's by no means
universal. Consider a task that starts Monday at 8am and requires 1 hour of
work on each of Mon, Tue, Wed and Thur, with a full day to finish it off on
Friday. Perhaps it's paint that has to dry overnight between coats. The
duration is 40 hours, the time between when work first happens and when it
ends (8am Mon - 5pm Fri). The work is 12 hours (1+1+1+1+8). It is now 5pm
Thur and everything has gone according to plan. We have passed 32 out of
the 40 required hours of duration so the task is 80% Complete. But we have
done 4 out of the 12 hours of work required, so the task is 33% Work
Complete.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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EV Formulas

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 10:50 AM PDT

We don't use these fields for real earned value but here are the calculations:

BCWP: When a task is first created, the BCWP is $0.00. As soon as a
baseline is saved and progress is reported for the task (as actual work,
actual duration, or percentage of work complete), Microsoft Project
calculates BCWP. This calculation is based on the percentage of work
complete, as compared with the task's baseline duration. Microsoft Project
then calculates the cumulative baseline cost and provides the value of what
the task's actual costs should be, given the task's progress to that point in
the task's baseline duration.

BCWS: To calculate BCWS for a task, Microsoft Project adds the timephased
baseline costs of the task up to the status date.

ACWP: When a task is first created, the ACWP field contains $0. As
progress (percentage of completion or actual work) is reported on the task,
Microsoft Project calculates the actual cost of work performed (ACWP). This
is the cost of actual work plus any fixed costs for the task to date. By
default, how and when ACWP is calculated depend on the assigned resources'
Standard Rate, Overtime Rate, Per Use Cost, and Cost accrual settings in the
Resource Information dialog box, as well as the actual work reported, fixed
costs for tasks, and the status date or today's date. Microsoft Project can
calculate ACWP even if you do not have resources assigned. In this case, the
calculations are based on progress (percentage of completion or actual work)
and fixed costs to date for the task. If you prefer, you can have ACWP
calculated based on your entries in the Actual Cost (timephased) field. On
the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Calculation tab. Clear the
Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project check box.




"bauer172uw" wrote:
 

Alll Gantt bars are grey in MSP2003

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 10:22 AM PDT

That is a good (tres bien) suggestion. I know the Gantt draws in 'layers'. I
am away from my pc, but I will verify first thing!
Merci mille fois.

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Gant Chart View

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 09:56 AM PDT


Hi Harry,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Scroll the Gantt chart horizontally until the first task (Project Summary
task?) begins at the left edge of the chart.

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



Harry wrote: 

break in task bar with different resource allotments

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 07:48 AM PDT


Hi redlurered ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You could use the Resource Usage view and type in the Work hours you want
when the resource is available.

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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Multilevel Resource Grouping Functionality

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 07:27 AM PDT

I see what you mean. Well we're not gonna buy AXTAPA, we are already on JD
Edwards, so I'll just hope for the best and muddle through in the meantime.
Maybe I'll see if I can code something that will work. In my non-existent
spare time

Thanks again,

Kevin

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

How do I use initials in Gantt chart?

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 03:53 AM PDT

Hi Boris,

In the hours to come I'll reply to that one. Promise.

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project MVP
+32 495 300 620
http://users.online.be/prom-ade
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Make a group of Ressources.

Posted: 09 Jun 2005 02:58 AM PDT

Hi Mat,

You have to give them all 3 each tilme.
The good news is that this is very easy through the resource assignment
window:
Select all tasks for the group
select the 3 resoureces
Click Assign
HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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custom report

Posted: 08 Jun 2005 10:04 PM PDT

Hi Boris,

(a) I know next to nothing about Project's reports. I doedcided I don't like
them, I print from views.
(b) Dop you have a column Level1 as well? I honestly do not remember my
macro. is it in Text2?
I'll suppose so.
Try this
Draw the Split bar to the right such that you will only print characters and
figures
View, Table, More Tables, New, give a name, define columns as follows
Text1
Text2
Name
Start
Finish
Resource Names
Notes

OK, Apply
Adjust column witdth as appropriate.

Project, Sort, Sort by...
Name
Start
And verify "Keep Outline Structure" is on

Tell me what's wrong.

HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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Breaking up Master Projects

Posted: 08 Jun 2005 06:02 PM PDT

In article <com>,
D Pingger <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Ping,
Basically, my macro takes a dynamically consolidated master file with
external links between subprojects and converts it to a static master
wherein the external links are converted to standard Predecessors and
Successors. I'll tell you up front, the macro is not freeware but if you
want more information write me direct. Note: I suspect a problem with my
e-mail recently so if you send me a note leave a response to this thread
saying you did.

John
Project MVP

Using Tasks to Force MSP to Consider Vacation Time

Posted: 08 Jun 2005 04:51 PM PDT

2003 - I will look into this further

BTW, I wasn't sure what you meant about "giving everyone a full-time
Calendar". Also, what I was finding is that if someone goes on a long
vacation which initially conflicts with a work task, MS Project forces the
task into the vacation and splits the vacation, which will surely upset the
employee! The only way around this I found was to set the priority of the
vacation to be 1000 so it took precedence. Is this the right approach? How
will levelling resolve it (as your article suggests)?

tx


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Colored Text does not appear in Reports

Posted: 08 Jun 2005 01:57 PM PDT

seth wrote:
 

Reports do not use the same formatting as views.

You might try looking at creating views that group, sort, filter the
data in a way to where it looks like a report. Then the coloring you
did would show.

Sorry

--
Brian K - Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com
--
Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts
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QuantumPM Associate
http://www.quantumpm.com

How do I sum multiple rows of different colors

Posted: 08 Jun 2005 08:49 AM PDT

JackD wrote:
 

Sure but then dont call it 50% complete. Call it "In Progress". It
seemed as if his request would have made a summary task with 5 complete
tasks and 5 tasks that were either not started or in progress 50%
complete. This is just wrong data even if all the 'yellow' tasks were
99.9% complete the summary would only be close to 50% complete if all
the tasks were the same 'size'. If all the complete tasks were 1 day
and the 'yellow' or 'red' tasks were 20 days then it gets even worse.
The other side of the same bad coin is true if the complete tasks were
really long and the incomplete ones were short. It would say 50%
complete when really it was almost 100% complete.

My fear with this is that someone (an exec or upper manager) will not
get that these numbers are approximations. I am against using what
appears to most people as an exact measure (50%, 75%, etc) for
something that is behind the scenes only a very rough and inaccurate
measure.

--
Brian K - Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com
--
Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts
--
QuantumPM Associate
http://www.quantumpm.com

What is Project Capable of...?

Posted: 08 Jun 2005 06:27 AM PDT

You have all be very helpful and for that I thank you. I just wanted to make
sure I was getting my moneys worth out of project, it will do a great job
scheduling our many tasks. Thank you all

Steve Budzynski

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

which version to get?

Posted: 08 Jun 2005 02:39 AM PDT

Adding a note to Mike's answer, Project Professional only adds functionality
to what you'd get with Project Standard when it's being used in a network
with Project Server installed. Without Server, the two are essentailly
identical. With Server, the Project Managers who create and maintain the
plans all need to have MS Project. Resources who access the plan, perhaps
update it, but who will not be modifiying it access the plan with Project
Web Access through their browser.

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

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S Curves for milestone reporting

Posted: 07 Jun 2005 06:51 PM PDT

Excel is made for calculation and graphing. Project does not offer that sort
of function. That is why they made it easy for Project to export to excel.
In my opinion that is the simplest and best ways. You could certainly cobble
together code which would graph within project but that would be a fairly
serious development effort and would not offer the wide functionality that
excel offers.

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http://masamiki.com/project
or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html
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Tutoring agreement or contract.

Posted: 07 Jun 2005 02:09 PM PDT

In article <com>,
arenee <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

arenee,
This is a newsgroup dedicated to Microsoft Project. Unless someone here
has first hand experience with tutoring, I doubt you will get much
response. I suggest you either consult an attorney or perhaps do a
search on the internet for "tutoring", "self-employment contracts" or
similar.

John
Project MVP

License change on same workstation

Posted: 07 Jun 2005 11:49 AM PDT

Thanks Steve,

We came to the same conclusion here. The problem was that my CD drive
wouldn't read the new CD (it had been acting flakey for a while). I
canabalized a DVD burner (and software) off of a newer machine destined for a
temp and installed it in mine. Did the uninstall and re-install in less than
3 minutes.

Best regards,

Kevin

"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote:
 

Microsoft CRM - Tutorials

Microsoft CRM - Tutorials

Tutorials

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 05:58 AM PST

The MS CRM SDK is a good place to start. I'm sorry - but I don't have a
link for you.



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Autonumbering

Posted: 12 Jan 2005 04:21 AM PST

For anyone interested I sussed it - all the numbers are stored in the
OrganizationBase table. ;-)

"Ruthie" wrote:
 

Integration with FoxPro

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 10:57 PM PST

Yes, its posible

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Business Intelligence Specialist
Caracas - Venezuela

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I need to move my CRM data files

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 05:03 PM PST

Agreed,......depending on your SQL admin expertise its a rather simple
move,.....literally just a few clicks. Either way, give yourself plenty of
time (the system will be down, and these files will likely be huge and
depending on the speed of your server, it could take a while to migrate the
files), and make backups!!!

-Gary

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SFO Activity - Monitoring Sync

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 02:45 PM PST

> Is this the first time your'e gone offline with this machine?

Yes.
 

It is still running right now, we're 2 hours short of 24 hours now. The
Task Manager on the client shows plenty of Outlook activity, so for now I
will still assume that it is working.

We've had other clients go 4 hours for the first sync, but nothing like
this. This laptop is definitely the dog in terms of performance, but the
difference in hardware is not on par with the difference in sync time.
 

Yes.

 

I was thinking I would see a lot of activity like that, but as of yet I
haven't seen it (in 2 roughly half-hour long traces).

Thanks much, if you learn any more specifics I would love to hear them.

Customize Home page

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 11:28 AM PST

If you're new to MSCRM, you'll find much more strange things along your
adventure!

:)

-Gary

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Document Control

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 10:37 AM PST

Looks interesting, but I need something more advanced, something that can
maintain revisions, approvals, etc.....

thanks though,
Gary

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HTML Side in php

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 09:13 AM PST

Best bet would be to write a webservice that uses the CRM SDK to process the
data and then call the webservice from your PHP app.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:13:02 -0800, Robert <microsoft.com>
wrote:

Hi,

How can I get information from a HTML side and which uses also php on some.
On that webpage interested contacts put their name and address on the side,
so they can get more information from the company. How should the information
be transferred that it goes directly into the MS CRM system and automatically
a contact is created? Are there any Tools? Is it possible that the
Information can be transferred to the SQL Database?

Thanks

Startside in MS CRM

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 08:57 AM PST

Each user can select which section(Workplace, Sales, Home Page,etc) is loaded
when they start CRM via the Options.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:57:03 -0800, Robert <microsoft.com>
wrote:

Hi,

Is is possible to change the startside of MS CRM for different usergroups.
the arrangement of the side? and can the user himself adjust the startside as
he wants it?

Thanks

crm and outlook - popups

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 07:09 AM PST

Hi Jen:

This is an Outlook security message. Download the free programme
"ClickYes" to stop this happening.
http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/
Cheers
Cathy Allington

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Apply Rule

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 04:43 AM PST

Can you me more specific, please?

I have a client that wants know how can deactivat a rule for some accounts.
The idea is: he apply a rule for one account and later e wants to deactivat.

"Matt Parks" wrote:
 

Windows authentication

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 04:01 AM PST

go to:
control panel => internet options => security tab,
choose the local intranet then click the custom level,
scroll down until you see user authentication (the last option), click
the "prompt for user name & password"

Sample Java Sales process needed

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 03:36 AM PST

Hi John,

Thanks very much for your help! I am definetely goign to test this. However,
where in this code do I enter my stages, e.g. 'Contact' , 'Proposal' etc etc.

I am not an expert here, so please bear with me...

This sales process is done using the salesstagecode field, right?

Thanks

Michiel

"John O'Donnell" wrote:
 

filtering records by custom criteria

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 10:59 PM PST

You should have the option from the Actions menu in Advanced Find to "Send
Direct E-mail". Is that not available to you? You can select all the records
on the current page, all records from current view, or just selected records,
and send an email template. (This is available from the web UI Advanced Fnd.
From the Sales For Outlook UI I believe you only have mail merge available.)
You can also Apply Rules manually from the same Actions menu.

Matt Wittemann
http://icu-mscrm.blogspot.com

"Lutz" wrote:
 

crystal report printing problem

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 01:45 PM PST

Well I re-published and did an IIS restart as well as a verify database
within the crystal tool. Unfortuanly for me, the outcome is still the same.
With any instance of the CFScreatedby within the report, I receive a 'Query
Engine Error' when the report attempts to open. Comment out the field name,
works like a charm.

Any other ideas?

TIA

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Customizing Stage and Status Reason and other "Action" items

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 01:23 PM PST

The change stage action will only present the stages of the Sales Process
associated with the Oppy. Thus, by changing the Sales Process you change the
drop down.

The reasons in the "Close" opportunity form can be changed by editing the
Opportunity form. By default, the Status Reason field is on the Admin tab. If
you modify the values in this field, you can select the values based on the
various states. This modifies the Close Oppy picklists.

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:23:06 -0800, Kim <microsoft.com> wrote:

When an active opportunity is open and you choose the action menu, one of the
choices is to change the stage and another is to close an opportuinity.
However the picklist associated with these tasks are not what we need. How do
you modify these picklists? I know how to modify a picklist on items on the
default opportunities form. I know accounts and contacts, etc have "actions"
also that I may want to customize. I need to know where in the
customizations, I can alter the "actions" items schema, etc.
thansk in advance,
Kim

The basics of mail merge - quote.dot

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 12:45 PM PST

Tamar,

Using Quote form:
When in the outlook client you need access a created quote and open it, in
the menu you will need to select the "mail merge" option which will then take
you to the template screen (which you will need to place your quote) so you
can then insert the details into the quote.dot or your custom one.

Customizing quote form:
We hit our heads against a wall a lot attempting to customise the quote.dot.
Microsoft guy:
As I understand correctly, you want to insert text between the address and
the product listing, effectively creating a title screen, some corporate
information, and finally the product listing on the last page.

If that is correct, then the trick is to ensure that all your corporate text
is included in the MERGESEQ=1 block, since that indicates that the content
will only be produced once for the entire document. Alternatively you can
insert it in the MERGEFIELD=lastitem section, since that gets generated only
once when the last list item is produced.

He sent a revised quote to me. If you want it then just e-mail me:
com.au

Hope it helps
Nathan

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Microsoft Word - Index of Defined Terms

Microsoft Word - Index of Defined Terms

Index of Defined Terms

Posted: 14 May 2014 03:40 PM PDT

In creating an Index of Defined Terms for large leases in my law firm's real estate department, I need the location of the defined term to be identified with the Section or paragraph number (i.e., Section 4.01) rather than the page number.  I have been highlighting the defined term, selecting "Insert Index/Mark" and then selecting the cross-reference button in the secondary window, and typing in the Section or paragraph number.  While this will generate an index giving the Section number location as opposed to the page number, it also results in a hidden field code in which the Section number doesn't update because it is typed in and not entered as a field.  To overcome this limitation, one must then replace the typed Section number within the hidden filed by inserting a cross reference field code in place of the hard typed number.  This is unbelievably time consuming and cumbersome.  Does anyone have a magic bullet to accomplish this more efficiently?  I would very much appreciate any help.  Thanks.

Word 2003 doesn't remember printing shortcut

Posted: 14 May 2014 03:10 PM PDT

I'm still using Word 2003 at work (I know, I KNOW!) and I print a specific type of document that I want printed on both side of the paper.  I've saved these settings as a printing shortcut and for awhile it works.  Now my shortcut isn't listed in the box of shortcuts but when I remake it and try to save it, it says I already have that shortcut; do I want to overwrite it.  If I already have the shortcut, why can't I see it listed so I can use it? 

Why does my MS Word open only toolbars instead of a complete new Word document page, when I click on 'New Office Document' in Start menu?

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:01 PM PDT

Starting from Sunday I can't start my MS Word, as I used to. If I try to open a new MS Word document by clicking on the 'New Office Document' link in the Start menu, then a file with Templates pops up. One of its Templates is 'Blank Document'. If I click on it, then instead of a complete new Microsoft Word document, only toolbars with gray background without cursor are displayed, which makes any typing impossible. What should I do to solve this issue?

table shading not working

Posted: 14 May 2014 12:30 PM PDT

I'm using Office/Word 2013 on a PC. When I insert a row, the row is already shaded. Commands to shade any other color do not work, nor does clearing the shading. I tried it with another table, in a different document - new rows inserted in that table begin as clear/no shading, and shading commands work fine. Obviously I'm missing something, but what?

Multiple steps required to change a document's theme (apply a new theme)

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:58 AM PDT

These are the steps I have to follow to apply a theme and get it working on an existing (old) document.


1) Go to the Design tab on the ribbon bar and select the theme. In this case a custom theme.


2) You will notice that the heading did not pick up the new theme, but that the following several lines did - although not the whole document. Notice when the italicised  Calibri font shows in the paragraph following the Chapter 1 text


3) On return to the Home tab, notice that the document's existing style theme remains. (This step is only taken to illustrate the theme has not 'taken'.

4) On the design tab, select the document title and then select the Heading 1 style.

5) On the Home tab, notice that the document title still does not show the new theme style

6) This time, when Heading 1 is selected, the new theme is applied to the selected heading.

7) Note in the screenshot above (6), that the text following Chapter 1, still displays the old Body style which is Calibri (and because Calibri font was not actually installed with Office 2013, the font shows in italics).

Selecting the text following Chapter 1 to the end of the document, and then selecting the Normal or Body font, does not always work. Then I have to try a few times before it works, or change the text to the new style in smaller chunks.

Note that if I select text from anywhere after the first heading (the title) and Chapter 1, from that point to the end of the document (or even just a few paragraphs down, the new theme style (Normal/Body) is never successfully applied.

-------------------------------------------------

I'm really hoping that there is a simple solution to this...

Anchoring a Watermark

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:28 AM PDT

My watermark moves when I adjust page margins.  Is there a way to anchor or lock the watermark in MSWord 2010?

Thanks!

SpellCheck Change All often doesn't

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:23 AM PDT

It is inconsistent, but I have noticed that SellCheck often does not remember that Change All was selected and just changes once.

In this example, I noticed the word artifact was one I had selected to change more than once, from artifact to artefact.

Because I am aware how easy it is to get confused when lots of changes are going on, I only reported this because I am certain. In fact, because I had become aware of the problem, I was specifically looking out for a few words where I had corrected the spelling more than once already - in the same document. and without SpellCheck coming up with the message that it had finished checking the selection, and did I want to continue checking the rest of the document.

This is, as I mentioned at the top, inconsistent in that sometimes it will change more than once, but other times it will only change once, or change two or three times, and not on the fourth occasion.

Office 2013 freezes

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:22 AM PDT

My office has several people who are using Office 2013. All of them have found that while scrolling through their document (using mouse roller button or scroll bar), Word sometimes freezes. This has happened in Excel also. When the "recovered" document is opened, it's not the time saved version but the version that was last manually saved. How can we prevent Word and Excel from freezing while scrolling?

Microsoft Word tile on Start Screen missing icon image.

Posted: 14 May 2014 09:52 AM PDT

I'm running WIndows 8.1 and I notice that when I pin Microsoft Word 2013 to the Start Screen, it is simply a solid blue tile. It does not have the Word icon. The shortcut works fine, but just doesn't have an image to associate to the tile. What would cause this?

I have already tried removing the shortcut from the Start Screen and readding it.

MS Word Table of Contents includes E-mail headers from the Document - How To Stop This? - E-mail Header Style is Normal, so should not be included as TOC1 Style

Posted: 14 May 2014 09:18 AM PDT

MS Word Table of Contents includes E-mail headers from the Document - How To Stop This?

- E-mail Header Style is Normal, so should not be included as TOC1 Style

I've been frustrated by this for years, but only just now reaching out to this community, as I haven't been able to figure this out on my own or by asking others I know.

This issue is that I have multiple documents with e-mails copied into them.

This is an example of what was copied into the document, followed by the e-mail text.

From: Brandt, Bryon E [mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 5:24 AM
To: Trent; Sam Adams

Cc: Mahesh; Kevin; 
Subject: RE: Inspection by Vendor - Site Visit Expectations?

When copying the e-mail, each line of the e-mail header has a soft return at the end, not a paragraph mark.

The header paragraph has a Normal style assigned to it, so should not appear in the Table of Contents, but the entire header shows as a Table of Contents entry, as one line, with TOC1 style used.

How to stop the e-mail headers from appearing in the Table of Contents?

Thank You!

Bryon

continue text to top of next column after a continuous section break

Posted: 14 May 2014 08:59 AM PDT

I'm so baffled with columns and continuous section breaks - and I can't find previous discussions about it. I'm probably not wording the search question correctly, and now I'm starting to lose it!

- I have many pages of text in 2 columns.

- The pages need different headers for different sections.

- Despite section breaks (for headers), text needs to continue flowing down one column to the next without leaving white space. So there can't be part of the page left blank to continue the next section on the next page.

- Inserting a continuous section break, splits the page into 2 parts. this gives me 2 columns from one section at the top part of the page, and 2 columns from the next section at the lower half of the page. This seems like it would be very confusing to the reader who is reading straight down the column.

- If for example I need a continuous section break in the middle of the first column, is there a way to continue the text down the rest of the first column, then to the top of the second column, and onward?

I tried to use: "Don't balance columns at the start of continuous sections" but that still breaks the page up into 2 horizontal parts.

Is it a matter of just putting the section break in a different location where it won't disturb the columns??

Thank you for any help with figuring this out!

Header & Footer Problems in Word 2013

Posted: 14 May 2014 08:45 AM PDT

Hi..

Running into a brick wall with this, as follows:

  1. I have a 1 page blank Word 2013 document set up with a header & footer. The header comprises my company logo (top left) and address details (top right). The footer contains 1 line of centralised text. The document is in essence my company letterhead stationery.
  2. The idea is that I will save this as a template for all my business correspondence, just saving the unique changes under a new file name every time I create a new letter.
  3. This 'template' is fine for 1 page letters, but should the text spill over onto a second page, the H&F contents are carried over as well.
  4. I want to have a separate header for the first continuation page and all subsequent continuation pages (smaller version of the logo - top right). There is no requirement for a footer on the continuation pages.
  5. I have searched online for advice on how to set this up and have followed all the steps regarding 'breaks' and 'navigation' and have successfully created what I need.....until...
  6. ...I insert or write my text. As soon as my text spills onto the first continuation page, the header and footer from the original page is inserted and the 'continuation' header is pushed onto a 3rd sheet.
  7. Ref Point 5, see this for details: http://wordknowhow.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/how-to-create-different-header-and-footer-in-same-word-document/

I consider myself to reasonably competent in the Office suite, but his is driving me nuts and I've spent way too long trying to self-diagnose and fix the issue.

Throwing this out to the community and would appreciate any support in return. 

Thanks.

Unable to open document. Semicolon expected

Posted: 14 May 2014 08:03 AM PDT

Hi i am using Word 2013,

i have tried opening by document but it comes up with this message:

Semicolon expected.

Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line:2, Column 76062

I just took it to the IT department at university, and they tried to repair it but to no avail.

Any help?

I have placed the file onto dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwtfl3by5t0jjbb/Building%20Anaylsis%20-%20Individual.docx

Why do Word track changes from multiple reviewers sometimes get combined when I save?

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:48 AM PDT

I'm noticing a glitch with Track Changes lately (doesn't seem to make a difference if there are edits from only one other reviewer or multiple), and I've confirmed that I'm not the only one experiencing it.  This has become a huge headache -- any help would be be GREATLY appreciated!  On Word 2010, I'm editing a document that was sent to me (sometimes from someone in my department, sometimes from someone in another department in my company, and sometimes from someone outside the company) with some redlines already in the document.  The previous reviewer's changes are in red, his name shows up in the Reviewers list in the "Show Markup" sub-menu, and when I hovor my mouse pointer over his changes, it gives me his name and the date/time of his edits. 

When I make my edits, they initially show up as blue. and if I go into the "Review" tab and select "Show Markup" and see the list of Reviewers, the previous editor(s) and I show up in different colors as separate reviewers.  However, sometimes (and I don't see any rhyme or reason to when it happens or doesn't) when I save (quick save or Save As, doesn't matter) the document, my edits change from blue to red.  Now, in the Show Markup" Reviewers list, the only reviewer is "author," and if I hover my pointer over my changes, or the previous editor's changes, both show "author" and all show the latest save time/date.   

This never happened until recently, and it's extremely problematic when I am trying to incorporate changes from multiple reviewers (some of whose edits "trump" the others' edits), or when I'm adding my changes to a multi-party document.  It doesn't matter if I'm saving to my desktop or to Sharepoint -- sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, but if it happens once in a particular document, it will always happen in that document. 

Please help!

Unable to open Word 2003 with its own office program when opening it from 64 bit Internet Explorer 8

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:21 AM PDT

I am using 64 bit Windows 7 machine, Internet Explorer 8 and Office 2003.

When I am trying to open a Word document from 64 bit IE, it is always opening in the browser windows instead of opening in its own office program.

But when using 32 bit version of IE, it is opening correctly with office program.

The same problem happened for Office 2007 and upon modifying the Registry value this problem is resolved.

But changing the Registry entry for Office 2003 is of no use.

Any help is appreciated.

PROBLEM TO OPEN OFFICE

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:01 AM PDT

I can't open office, word, excell and power point. Error Code -2147483634-8. What can I do?

Embedded word document on Word for Ipad

Posted: 14 May 2014 05:48 AM PDT

My company is moving to using Ipads for documents at meetings. Their preferred way to operate is to create an agenda in a word document and then embed all of the relevant supporting papers (i.e. more word documents) within that agenda next to the relevant item. So on a laptop they would see the agenda itemw with a word document icon beside it.

When attempting to view on an ipad the icon is not visible and additional documents can't be opened.

i know that there are other solutions but wanted to confirm that their preferred method won't work before exploring the alternatives.

Stop Table of Contents Auto Update

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:42 AM PDT

I have a table of contents, table of figures and a list of tables.

I have deleted specific entries from these.

I need to be able to save my document to OneDrive and export it as a pdf, but whenever I do all these tables update themselves and insert back in the deleted parts.

How do I stop the table of contents from updating unless I expressly tell it to?

Please help, answer required urgently.

Mail merge from excel to labels - wanting one column per record rather than for next record to be by row

Posted: 14 May 2014 01:25 AM PDT

I am looking to use mail merge to print labels and have been able to get to the end of the process. But I would like to have one record fill up the first column of labels (7 labels in total for Avery 21 label sheet), then for the next column to be the next record. The mail merge process only allows next records to be the next cell filling up row by row.

So is there any way to change this direction i.e instead of labels being filled row by row they are filled in columns?  Am really stuck and really need to be able to have them in columns as the labels will be used in a particular order.

i.e I would them merged as follows:

Box 1  Box4 Box7

Box 2  Box5 Box8

Box 3  Box6 Box9

and not as

Box1 Box2 Box3

Box4 Box5 Box6

Box7 Box8 Box9

which is the current default setting.

Many Thanks,

Word TAB INDICATOR missing

Posted: 14 May 2014 01:16 AM PDT

The TAB INDICATOR now shows only as a blank icon and no tabs show on the ruler. My tab indicator and tabs were fine until recently. Running Word 2013 on Win 8. How can I fix this, please?

How to count Yes/No answers and calculate points of Yes/No drop-down lists in Word 2013?

Posted: 14 May 2014 12:47 AM PDT

Hi,

I am designing a simple Yes/No questionnaire in Microsoft Word 2013 and would like to know how to count all the Yes and No answers in order to calculate a score based on the answers.

Basically I have inserted a table in word with a column for the questions and a column for the drop-down list controls, each yes or no answer may be equal to more than one point in the scoring system. I want to calculate the points of the yes and no answers separately and subtract the one from the other to get the score.

I would greatly appreciate anyone's assistance.

Kind regards,

Arthur Durand

Formatting Help

Posted: 14 May 2014 12:22 AM PDT

Could anyone point me in the right direction for the below.

Automatically format any words within ( ) to a different color ie red.

Automatically make certain words be caps, bold and underline.

Automatically put in numbering to normal text only, ie not text under say header.

Automatically change all text to a certain font and size.

Many Thanks

Matt

Word 2013 crashes whenever saving to OneDrive

Posted: 13 May 2014 08:45 PM PDT

I have Office 2013 installed on my PC.  Whenever I save a word document to OneDrive, it saves, and then Word crashes, restarts, and recovers the documents that were previously opened.  This does not happen when I save an Excel spreadsheet to OneDrive.  I've tried restarting Word completely, restarting my computer, updating Office, and going through the Microsoft "Fix it" troubleshooter.  This happens for both "Save" and "Save as," but only when saving to OneDrive (saving to my desktop creates no problems whatsoever).

Linking chapters in Word to multiple Word docs

Posted: 13 May 2014 08:16 PM PDT

Hi,

I have 6 MW files with approx 10 chapters in each file. However, 6 of the 10 chapters in each file are exactly the same.

What I would like to know is, is it possible to link a chapter from one MW file to the other 5 MW files and when updated in one file, the link between the other 5 is live and will update the other 5 MW files automatically keeping the 6 identical chapters the same.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

Craig

Change Word Outline Numbering via VBA (Word 2010)

Posted: 13 May 2014 06:10 PM PDT

I autoformat tables based on options that the user selects in a UserForm that pops up when the user runs the macro.  Some rows in the table are are just text, and some rows are outline numbered headings.  Sometimes the headings have manual numbering, and sometimes they don't.  One of the options I would like to provide to the users is to turn on or off the outline autonumbering in the Word document if the heading rows have manual numbering. 

It used to be easy to do before Word 2010 - I could turn Outline Numbering on or off for all the heading styles just by changing Heading 1 because all my other heading styles are based on Heading 1.  But with Word 2010, which has the new List Style Gallery for Outline Numbering, I am having a heck of a time figuring out how to apply (or remove) outline numbering from all 9 heading styles using VBA, and there doesn't seem to be much discussion about how to do this anywhere.  I have a named multilevel numbered list style in the gallery called "Headings" (as suggested by Shauna Kelly in her very informative tutorial about setting up list styles), but as far as I can figure out there isn't a way to apply a named list style to the selection using VBA.  Even if I could, I don't think the change would propagate to the remaining heading styles so that all the headings in the document inherit the numbering scheme. 

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

Susan

Microsoft word 2010 problem with slow opening and slow closing (saving) .DOC on network takes 20-30 sec across network to sever.

Posted: 13 May 2014 02:40 PM PDT

Microsoft word 2010 problem with slow opening and slow closing (saving) .DOC . On the network takes 20-30 seconds across network to sever.   NOTE: Word works fine if saving to local drive as a .doc .  Works fine if you open or close as a  .docx across the local network or if you change the .doc to .docx.  If i open a or close in work pad no problem.   If I open or close a .rtf in Microsoft Word 2010 no problem.  NOTE:The problem is from 2 of the work stations. The 3rd workstation has no problem with this at all. I believe this means there is no problem with the network.  Also pinged the server no lag time at all on all work station. Running MS windows server 2012 on server 64 bit server.  Workstations all 32 bit.  Thank you for your help.

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