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Use elapsed days in german ms project
Insert the task Leveling Delay field into a table and read the unit abbreviation from there. Leveling Delay is always in elapsed days.
This will give you the answer in any language. German for ...
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MS Project - One year is calculated wrong
Microsoft seems to have hard-coded 1 emo = 30 edays. There is no setting to achieve your expected date, which is based on the variable human interpretation of "month." For workarounds, I would ...
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MS Project, add hours directly in resource usage
I am not really sure I totally understood the problem; however, I am pretty sure that it's not a version or application problem.
I would give it a try and go to Project -> Change working Calendar and ...
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How to show critical path INCLUDING completed tasks (in MS Project 2010)
You are describing something like an as-built critical path, which is not easily created even in the best of circumstances.
MSP sets the Critical flag based on total slack, but total slack becomes ...
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MS Project compatibility and Office 365
You can't connect Microsoft Project 2013 to Project Server 2010, no.
I don't know how O365 updates are planned, but Microsoft Project Server 2010 and Microsoft Project Professional 2010 are both no ...
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How to turn off auto duration calculation is MS project 2010?
Change your task to 'fixed duration.' Load the number of days you need in the duration column. Because you made your task fixed duration, those days will remain fixed. (In your example, one of the ...
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Calculate Cost Deviation
MS Project automatically calculates those values in the "Work Variance" and "Cost Variance" fields, as far as your project has a saved baseline.
To save a baseline, use the command located in the "...
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Set Undo Level by the use of VBA in MS Project 2010
The property is UndoLevels. For example: Application.UndoLevels = 10 set the number of undo levels to 10.
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Adding a subproject at top level
Collapse all summary tasks before inserting subprojects and they will be inserted at outline level 1.
Note: only the project summary task is at level 0.
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Allocating a single resource with multiple subprojects
Are you using a resource pool? (I.e. a separate .mpp file holding all the resources, which are then shared with the various project schedules.) If not, then the resources in different projects, ...
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Project 2010 schedule a task ALAP using a deadline
The deadline does not affect schedule at all. It only marks a date that the task should finish at. If the tasks is delayed and its finish date is later than the deadline, a red sign appears in the ...
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MS Project 2010 - How to import tasks with dependencies
The task dependency type and lag are all contained in the "Predecessors" and "Successors" columns. Importing data in one of those two is sufficient.
The data in the column is written like this:[...
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Working Day in Resource Calendar Not Showing Up - MS Project 2010
I figured it out. I assigned the base calendar to each task and I guess that was somehow overriding the resource calendar. Once I removed that everything was fine.
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Working Day in Resource Calendar Not Showing Up - MS Project 2010
Exceptions default to non-working. Click on the Details... button and change it to working.
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How can I create a "pool" of tasks to choose from whenener there is available time?
If you have tasks that have no link to other project tasks, then it sounds like conflating both projects tasks with operation-type tasks, i.e., your team is matrixed to both the project as well as ...
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Default Header and Footer, for All Microsoft Project Views?
As you have discovered each view in Project can have its own header and footer. My suggestion is to create a template (it doesn't even need tasks) and store the "defaults" you want in that template. ...
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Move a task to weekend in MPP 2010
However I didn't get any option to assign another calendar for a given task.
Please see Task Properties -> Advanced -> Calendar:
Please note that in the default project you may have a 24 Hours ...
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What is unique about application development projects?
tl; dr
90% of project management is communications. 90% of communications is trust. The more relevant experience the PM has, the easier it is to gain and retain the trust of the team.
discursive ...
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Add travelling time in ms project 2010
Simply link the two tasks together and put a one day lag between. However, I understand, and I am not sure why this occurs, that having leads and lags in your horizontal logic can hose up critical ...
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Difference between max units and assignment units in MS Project
Max. Units is set on a resource level - usually in the Resource Sheet view. When assigning a resource, Project will, by default, use the max units as the assignment units value. However, you can ...
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in MSP 2010 How to change task duration units from weeks to days in bulk
Note Rachel and Marv's solutions do not work with Summary Tasks: Duration1 column shows 0 duration for the Summary Task.
To resolve this, you could:
Perform Rachel's solution above
Hide summary ...
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in MSP 2010 How to change task duration units from weeks to days in bulk
I just had the same problem but easily fixed. I had a mix of days and weeks in the Duration column. Go to Options, Schedule - click on Duration - I changed the Duration from Weeks to Days then saved. ...
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in MSP 2010 How to change task duration units from weeks to days in bulk
Here is a quick way to convert all durations (hours, weeks, and/or minutes) to days; durations already in days are left unchanged.
Insert a numbered Duration field (e.g. Duration1)
Right-click the ...
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Leveling Doesn't Work on Overallocated Resources in Project 2010
If you've selected Manual for "Leveling calculations", you've told MS Project that you will level the tasks manually. If you selected Automatic, MS Project would level the tasks as you created them. ...
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Report to Show Work During Current Week Only
You could also create a custom filter with these parameters:
Status does not equal Complete
And Active equals Yes
And Finish ...
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How do I track resource utilization, but the resource doesn't do any work?
Define the machines (or each individual machine) as a discrete resource, the same way that you would with staff.
The thing is, the machine doesn't do any work against my tasks - it is just consumed ...
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MS project 2010 resource assigning problem - unexpected behavior
Split your screen to show the task form in the lower pane to understand what is happening with the work. When you assigned Alice at 50% - she did not get assigned 50% of the work - she was assigned ...
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Inherited Project Fix or Start Over
Regarding the leading and trailing spaces in the task names (as well as unwanted double spaces between words), it often happens as a result of sloppy typing and sometimes as a result of copying and ...
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Inherited Project Fix or Start Over
I had similar issues in a past project. After some testing i came to the conclusion that it was caused by using different MS-Project version for the same project file.
You can try testing this by ...
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Using ms-project from onedrive
No sorry. The choices in the "new" are driven by the online versions of Word, Excel, PPT, and OneNote. Do you have project pro for office 365 added to your Office 365 subscription?
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