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Use this generic tag for questions that apply to most versions of Microsoft Project. For version-specific questions, please use an alternate tag instead of the catch-all tag. Version tags currently include: ms-project-2003, ms-project-2007, ms-project-2010, ms-project-2013, and ms-project-2016.
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Responsible Person for a Task
I highly recommend using the Contact (or a custom text or Outline Code) field to represent the task owner rather than making individuals resources in your resource sheet. Resources are better as funct …
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How can I scale project duration in MS Project?
One way to do this without needing to save the file in an XML format or write any scripts would be to do the following:
Hide all of the summary tasks
Select header of the remaining duration column (t …
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Auto-scheduling Milestones Creating Issues
I want the milestones to appear as nicely labeled markers on the Gantt
Chart
I'm not exactly what defines "nicely labeled markers" for you but you can customize the text that appears to the right or …
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How do I Arrange All MS Project Files Side-by-Side?
I'm aware that MS Project does not allow you to have multiple instances of the application open unlike the rest of MS Office. I know that you can view multiple projects at once by clicking the Arrange …
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Resource List Display on Gantt Chart
Is there any way to convert this into a bulleted list underneath the bar?
No, this is not possible. You can switch the view from Gantt Chart to Task Usage and see something like this:
Warning: ente …
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How to stop MS Project from changing durations when adding resources?
The most common fix for the issue described is to set the Task Type to Fixed Duration prior to adding the new resources.
If this doesn't work for you, it's likely at least one of the resources you ar …
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Dynamically linking a date
I would recommend this:
Create a custom calendar that only has Tuesdays as working days
Create a 1 day task in the schedule called "Go Live Start" or something and set it's Task Calendar to the calen …
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Add predecessor to all tasks "x" number of tasks before it - Microsoft Project
The best way to do this would be to copy the values in the Predecessors column in MS Project and paste in an Excel Spreadsheet. Then use a formula to append the predecessor you want to add to each cel …
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Will MSP 2019 add-ins work in Project Online Desktop Client?
MS Project Add-ins, particularly COM add-ins (which is what I believe you are referring to) will indeed work in the MS Project Online Desktop Client. Add-ins will not work in the web-based version of …
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Auto scheduling in MS project
I agree with the answer provided by @john-project. Here is just an image of the task mode column in the Gantt Chart view:
you want everything task to have this icon:
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MS Project Configuration - 80% allocation to project, max of 50% per task per day
You can set values like the Max Units on resources in your Resource Sheet to 80%, and then set the Units of a resource assignment on a task to 50%, but I find MS Project's calculations in regards to u …
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Assigning MSP resources with future availability to tasks
In the later case I was expecting that the auto-leveling would either move the task to the first day of the resource availability or to mark them as over allocated when not available.
MS Project all …
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Microsoft Project Schedules Tasks in the past
Tasks in Microsoft Project can show their forecast start and finish dates prior to today's date and the project's status date. This is a feature, not a bug. It's important to know that the dates you s …
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How can a generic resource be overallocated?
MS Project doesn't know a generic resource from a non-generic resource. To Project, it's just a resource name.
If you are intending for your resources to be generic and do not want to show them ever o …
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How can I get MS Project to display calendar days for duration rather than working days?
For this particular question, I would recommend creating a custom calendar that has no non-working days:
Then either set that as the base calendar of the project:
Or set it as the Task Calendar of t …
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