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Speed up your work with keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office Project 2007

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 to Task on Gantt Chart CTRL + SHIFT + F5 Task...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 11-19-2008
Problem linking resource pool to large existing project plans

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. I've tried setting all tasks to "fixed duration"...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 04-29-2008
Protecting you project plan from unauthorized access or change

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 that you enter a password before saving the...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 03-14-2008
Sharing Microsoft Project - Mark Walhimer

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 multiple people without using sever edition? Thanks...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 03-13-2008
Resource availability in resource information only influences the overtime calculation

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 will automatically prolong the resources tasks (depending...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 02-29-2008
Turning project summary task on by default

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 through Windows registry, but if you are fammiliary...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 02-26-2008
Out of memory - MS Project 2007

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 on Vista or on XP Service Pack 2. So for the rest...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 02-11-2008
Accessing MS Project 2007 programatically

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 could get a standard report from all of their...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 01-27-2008
Changing the project calendar / custom working times Part II

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) even thaw he set them as working days in his...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 11-30-2007
Changing the project calendar / custom working times

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 they create a new calendar during the project...

Posted to Luka Gospodnetic - Microsoft Project 2007 Blog (Weblog) by lugospod on 11-23-2007

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