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I don't about the rest of you, but the shortcuts sure speed up my work with project... Action Keyboard Shortcut Indent a task ALT + SHIFT + RIGHT ARROW Outdent a task ALT + SHIFT + LEFT ARROW Link tasks CTRL + F2 Unlink tasks CTRL + SHIFT + F2 Scroll...
Here is a quote from a mail that I recieved from James Terris from UK: " The problem is... the project plans and the resource pool have different working hours. When I try to associate the plan to the pool all the start/finish dates are shifted....
In my last post, I mentioned that I will describe the plan protection. So... here it goes... First of all, there are two ways to protect your project plan: 1) Protecting from unauthorized access 2) Marking the plan as "Read-only" Both ways require...
This morning I received an email from Mark Walhimer. I'll copy/paste his text, 'cause I'm lazy :) Quote: " Thanks for the great blog, lots of good information. Do you have any suggestions about sharing Microsoft project schedules with...
If you tried to set the resources availability in the resource information dialog (see the picture) you might have thought that it will influence the task duration, but it doesn't. One might think that if you set the resource availability to 0% it...
I read on Microsoft project blog, that you can make the project summary task show itself on every new project plan that you create. This way you don't have to add it each time through the Project menus. The downside is that you will have to do it...
I suppose not many people experienced “out of memory” message from the MS Project 2007. While doing some reading, I came across a Microsoft article which lists MS Project 2007 limitations. These limitations are supported only if you are running Project...
Yeah, I know that it's been a while since my last post...You know how it goes Christmas...Birthday, New year etc. :) So to make it up to you, I went and investigated how to access MS Project 2007 programatically. Why? A lot of people asked me if they...
A friend of mine emailed me about a problem with changing the project calendar. To make a long story short I'll jump right to the point. He said that his Gantt chart is still showing Saturdays and Sundays displayed as nonworking (dotted gray background...
A lot of people are having trouble changing the calendar for their project in MS Project. Most common problems are: they create a new calendar but they don’t select it as a project calendar they create a new calendar but the week still starts with Sunday...
I have some good news for those of you that would like to create your project WBS using graphical representation of elements. Microsoft has enabled this feature using Visio / Project integration tool available as a free download . The Application enables...
I know I've said that I would take the exam two weeks ago, but then I got sick (read: hospitals etc.) so I had to reschedule it for a while :( The exam was registered through Prometric test center. And after this experience, I have to say that they...
Many of you will have to decide which version of MS Project 2007 tool to install. To help you out, I will write the main differences between MS Project versions. Office Project Standard 2007 is the latest version of the desktop project management program...
For those of you that are using Project Server 2007, this post should be interesting. There is an issue in Project Professional 2007 that sometime manifests itself when you close a project, which is on Project Server 2007, using the X button in the top...
Since MS Project 2007 is getting more and more popular, there is a great chance that someone will send you a project plan that was created in MS Project 2007. And guess what? YOU HAVE 2003 version!!!. Damn... Don't worry, Microsoft (better late then...