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Written by Andy Trainer– Wed 25 May 2011
Microsoft Project 2010 was released last year and many of our clients are upgrading to the new version. Our guest blogger this week is one of our MS Office trainers and she has put together a list of some of the bugs in Project 2010 and (most importantly!) ways of getting around them. In time these bugs will be ironed out with updates but for the time being they can be extremely frustrating if you encounter them.
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As a Microsoft Project trainer I was interested to see the new Project 2010 and how it compares to previous versions. I am always keen to find out what’s new with an application and what benefits it can bring to the users that I train, and how best to communicate these features. There are some great new features such as:
Whilst working with Project 2010, various bugs came to light and a quick “google” and a chat with some other Project trainers reassured me that it isn’t something that I am doing wrong and that I am not the only one to have discovered these problems. For the most part, these bugs affect the display only and if you dig deeper into the detail in other views, the data in the background is correct.
Look out for the release of the Service Pack, but in the meantime, here is a description of the bugs that I have discovered and my suggestions of how to get around them:
Goto Next Overallocation Bug: The 'Goto Next Overallocation' button doesn't find any overallocations.
If you know that there are overallocations on a date later than your current position in the view you are in; my preferred method to find the overallocations is to:
Or:
Check the dates in other views (they will probably be correct).
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