List of Troubleshooting Tips

About the CD

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Chapter 1: Introducing 2003Microsoft Project

Troubleshooting: The Project Guide toolbar is not available

Troubleshooting: The Help pane is covering your Project view

Chapter 3: Starting a New Project

Troubleshooting: You enter project information in Gantt Chart view and your menus and toolbars have all gone gray

Chapter 4: Viewing Project Information

Troubleshooting: You can't find the PERT analysis views

Troubleshooting: The current view doesn't have a split bar

Troubleshooting: You can't get the combination view to be a single view again

Troubleshooting: The field you're looking for is not in the Field Name list

Troubleshooting: Some of your project information is missing

Chapter 5: Scheduling Tasks

Troubleshooting: You set the calendar for 20 hours per week, but the tasks are still being scheduled for 40 hours per week

Troubleshooting: You're trying to remove just the predecessor link from a task, but the successor link is removed at the same time

Troubleshooting: You can't delete a constraint

Troubleshooting: You assigned a task calendar, but it's not scheduling tasks in all the times it should

Chapter 6: Setting Up Resources in the Project

Troubleshooting: You have duplicate resource names , and information is being tracked separately for each instance

Chapter 7: Assigning Resources to Tasks

Troubleshooting: Your Filter By or Available To Work boxes are dimmed

Troubleshooting: You assign two resources to a task, but the work is doubled rather than halved

Troubleshooting: The Assignment Information dialog box does not open

Chapter 8: Planning Resource and Task Costs

Troubleshooting: The rolled-up value for fixed task costs looks wrong

Chapter 9: Checking and Adjusting the Project Plan

Troubleshooting: Tasks scheduled at the same time are causing overallocations

Troubleshooting: Leveling delay you entered manually has disappeared

Troubleshooting: Microsoft Project performance has slowed since you last leveled

Troubleshooting: You told Microsoft Project to level your resources, but nothing changed

Chapter 10: Saving a Baseline and Updating Progress

Troubleshooting: You see nothing in the baseline fields

Troubleshooting: Your baseline information doesn't roll up

Troubleshooting: Your scheduled start and finish dates change when you enter actuals

Chapter 11: Responding to Changes in Your Project

Troubleshooting: Your scheduled values change whenever you enter actuals

Troubleshooting: Your earned value fields are all $0.00

Chapter 12: Reporting Project Information

Troubleshooting: You can't adjust report column sizes

Troubleshooting: Project says there is no data to print

Troubleshooting: My earned value fields are showing $0.00

Chapter 13: Analyzing Project Information

Troubleshooting: I can't find a field I want in the Mapping table

Chapter 14: Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools

Troubleshooting: There are duplicate resource names in your master project

Troubleshooting: You lose text and bar formatting when you insert projects

Troubleshooting: The resource sharing commands are dimmed

Troubleshooting: You don't see an open project file in the Share Resources dialog box

Troubleshooting: The resources are missing from your sharer file

Chapter 15: Exchanging Information Between Project Plans

Troubleshooting: Your pasted information deleted existing information

Chapter 16: Exchanging Information with Other Applications

Troubleshooting: Data isn't pasting into the target file correctly

Chapter 17: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Excel

Troubleshooting: You're getting paste error messages

Troubleshooting: You can't find the Excel Task List template

Chapter 18: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Outlook

Troubleshooting: Only a fragment of the project file is being sent

Chapter 21: Administering Project Server and Project Web Access for Your Enterprise

Troubleshooting: You're getting resource import error messages

Chapter 22: Managing Enterprise Projects and Resources

Troubleshooting: You added an incorrect URL as a trusted site

Chapter 25: Customizing Your View of Project Information

Troubleshooting: Changing the bar style for one task changes the Gantt bars for all tasks

Troubleshooting: A Gantt bar doesn't appear in the chart

Troubleshooting: You can't find the field you want to add in the Field Name list

Troubleshooting: The custom field name isn't as informative as a column heading in a table

Troubleshooting: You can't change the calculation for the value that appears in the group heading row

Troubleshooting: A filter doesn't display the correct tasks

Chapter 26: Customizing the Microsoft Project Interface

Troubleshooting: You can't remove buttons on a toolbar

Troubleshooting: The toolbar doesn't appear where you want it

Troubleshooting: You can't find the custom toolbar you built

Troubleshooting: You can't delete a toolbar

Chapter 27: Automating Your Work with Macros

Troubleshooting: Why doesn't your macro select the right cell ?