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  1. blooda

    My project was postponed!

    No Problem, Glad to be of Help
  2. blooda

    My project was postponed!

    Hi Fistly is your project fully networked with no danglers ? Secondly have you baselined your Project? Thirdly are you inputing actual start and completion dates, and then resheduling your project? If the answer to all these is yes then when you reschedule your project the start of the...
  3. blooda

    How to move the whole schedule?

    There is little known macro in Project that will move all activities wheter linked or not. i.e you have project that started on 01/01/04 and there is a repeat starting 01/01/05. to get there: Go to "view" - "Toolbars" - "Analysis" There will now be a new tool bar. Press Adjust dates...
  4. blooda

    web base vs enterprise software

    Hi, If you want to do it properly (Which means investment in time and Money - which most places do not want to do) take a look at Primavera P3e www.primavera.com (i think). BFN
  5. blooda

    Hash marks in start field?

    Try Double Clicking the Line between Colums at thr Very Top - This will Auto format the Column to the length of the longest field - This works on excel too Blooda
  6. blooda

    Float Degregation

    Thanks, Yes you got it pretty much. The critical path has no float (usually!) but the float degregation (or utilisation) I think is a good monitor for the rest of the programme. As for the shape of the graph, someone I spoke to thought it would be the inverse of a traditional 's' curve. But...
  7. blooda

    Float Degregation

    Hi ALL Has anyone done any work on float degregration. i.e. the rate at which the float (Slack) of the project degrades throughout the life of the project. Its an area I'm looking into as another way of monitoring the project Status. Would Like to hear any Comments RGDS AB
  8. blooda

    How to prepare S curve in M S Project

    Not as far as know I have same Problem and export data to excel sorry AB
  9. blooda

    Microsoft Project Vs Others

    Is it your view that microsoft Prject is limited as PM software, is their better stuff out there??? Your Views Please Lets get this forum debating!!! RGDS AB
  10. blooda

    Can Project 98 open a Project 2000 file?

    When you try to open a file created in MSP2000 in MSP98 the programme tells you to use a coverter and this is available at WWW.Micr.......etc. When you follw the hyper link the web site tells you a converter does not exist (Thanks agin MicroSoft) WBD is right t say the firs user must save as...
  11. blooda

    Displaying only selected tasks

    Use the Work Break Down Structure (WBS) use codes such as zzz-yyy-xxx-www where the letters are you suppliers. Use the filters new to set up different filters using WBS Contains XXX etc AB
  12. blooda

    different duration - same start/end date

    Set up a blank Project to your calender ; working time etc and keep it. Use it when you start a new prpject AB
  13. blooda

    Activity on Arrow Network

    HI, The only one I know of is Pertmaster for DOS, an ancient programme which had the choice of Arrow or Precendence, If this is for your studies tell your Lecturer that very few people in the real world use Arrow any more and vertually all of them us Precedence, therefore software manufacturers...
  14. blooda

    Adding more than one Task to a row.

    Yo, Try looking at Asta Power Project we used it in the mid 90's as a successful tool for thumbnail planning as it is very graphical. Pertmaster is still quite good and very user friendly, we were using a DOS version in the late 80's early 90's and I was on the Beta test team for PM 4.2 for...
  15. blooda

    move all dates

    Yes, But not just by one click 1) Highlight the Start date Column At the top. 2) Right Mouse Click. 3) Copy 4) Open Excel 5) Paste Special - Values (the contents into a excel column) 6) In the coulmn next to the figures assuming the first cell is A1 type "=A1+x" where x is the number...

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