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how-to articles - Project 2003

• PRJ: How to Print Specific Tasks from a View
  In Microsoft Project, when you print a view such as a Gantt Chart, it is possible to print only a selected group of tasks and/or a specific timescale.
• PRJ: Pasting Information into Project from Another Application
  When pasting information into Microsoft Project from another program, the columns of information that you are copying must match the columns of information in the table in Microsoft Project that you are pasting into. Like Microsoft Excel, the...
• PRJ: How Fiscal Dates Are Shown on a Timescaled View
  In the versions of Microsoft Project listed above, when the fiscal year is set to start in a month other than January that is also before the current month, the current date may appear incorrect. When a fiscal year is specified, the current date...
• PRJ: How to Change the Font and Font Size of Gantt Bar Text
  It is sometimes necessary to change the font information for labels that appear around Gantt bars in Microsoft Project.
• PRJ: How to Build a Hammock Task
  A "hammock" task is dependent on external dates for both its start and finish dates and, ultimately, its duration. The name, hammock task, is derived from the way a hammock's shape is determined by the distance between the points to which it is...
• How Microsoft Project wraps text in a table column
  Lists the four conditions that must be met for Microsoft Project to wrap text in table fields. Text wrapping in a table field depends on the type of field, the text entered, the row height, and the column width.
• How to print crosstab report with either work or material resources in Project
  In Microsoft Project, in crosstab reports with task details, when you include resource assignment details, both work resource assignments and material resource assignments are displayed. This article describes how to print a crosstab report with task...
• PRJ98: How to Calculate the Schedule and Cost Performance Index
  Microsoft Project does not calculate the Schedule Performance Index (SPI) or the Cost Performance Index (CPI). This article contains a sample macro that calculates SPI and CPI for each task in a project. NOTE : SPI is the ratio of work performed to...
• PRJ98: Macro to Determine If a Project Is Opened as Read-Only
  This article contains a sample macro that determines if a project is opened as read-only.
• PRJ98-2003: How to Include a GIF Image When You Save a Project as HTML
  This article describes how to include a reference to a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) image when you save a project using the Save As HTML or Save as Web Page command.
• PRJ: Can't Format Bar with Bar Command If Multiple Styles Exist
  If your project contains more than one definition for the same bar style, an individual task's bar cannot be formatted using the Bar command on the Format menu. However, you can double-click the bar for that task in the Gantt Chart to format the bar.
• PRJ: Hammock Task Defined
  How a hammock task is defined depends on the how the task is used in the parent project.
• How to hide text in a cell
  Sometimes you may want to hide the text in a particular cell or set of cells without deleting the data or removing the columns in Microsoft Project.
• PRJ98: How Work, Duration are Calculated w/Assignment Changes
  This article describes how work and duration are calculated when you make resource assignment changes.
• PRJ: How to Use Priority to Affect Leveling in Project
  This article describes how to use priority to control how leveling is applied to a project using a common resource pool.
• How to view partial information from a resource pool in Project
  This article describes how to view partial resource information for projects that share resources from a resource pool. For example, if 20 projects share resources from a resource pool, how to view resource data for only 10 of those projects.
• PRJ: Description of the MPX Project File Exchange Format
  The MPX 4.0 file format is an ASCII file format that you can use to transfer project information between different versions of Microsoft Project as well as third-party programs that support the MPX file format, such as Primavera Project Planner and...
• How to turn on the Workgroup Mail feature in Project 2003
  Describes how to turn on the Workgroup Messaging feature in Project 2003.
• How to make a custom toolbar available to all users in Project Professional 2003 or in Project Professional 2002
  Describes how to create a custom toolbar that has a button to run a macro. Includes information about how to make the toolbar available to all users of Project Professional 2003 and Project Professional 2002.
• Description of the Microsoft Project Server architecture and extensibility
  Provides an overview of the Microsoft Project enterprise project management solution. Lists the products that are included in the solution.
• Overview of the Microsoft Project Server security architecture
  The Microsoft Project enterprise management and resource management features include the following products: Microsoft Project Professional Microsoft Project Server Microsoft Project Web Access Microsoft Project Server includes an enhanced set of...
• Description of the Microsoft Project Data Service and the Microsoft Project Server security architecture
  Lists the available links with title and summary to the resources on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) about Microsoft Project Data Service and Microsoft Project Server security architecture.
• Minimum system requirements for Microsoft Project Standard 2003 and Microsoft Project Professional 2003
  Lists the minimum system requirements you must meet in order to install Project 2003 Standard and Project 2003 Professional.
• New development and automation features in Microsoft Office Project 2003
  Provides information about new development and automation features in Project 2003.
• How to view the installation log files and to create verbose installation log files in Project 2003 and in Project 2002
  Describes how to view the installation log files and how to create more detailed, verbose installation log files in Project 2003 and in Project 2002.