Creating a New Calendar and Assigning it to a Task

Creating a New Calendar and Assigning it to a Task To create a new base calendar to be used in your project, you will need to be an Administrator in PPM or ask your Administrator to create a new calendar. For this example we will create a [...]

Project Crashes When Saving Enterprise Template Locally

Project Crashes When Saving Enterprise Template Locally We recently had a client that tried to save a project made from an Enterprise template locally, and MS Project kept crashing with the Enterprise templates.     Try the below steps: 1. Launch Project Professional 2013 or Project Professional [...]

Preserving Workflow History After the Workflow is Restarted

Preserving Workflow History After the Workflow is Restarted A client of PPM Works recently requested that we find a way to preserve the original workflow history for projects. As many of you already know, once a workflow is restarted the history is replaced on the Workflow History [...]

Deleting an Enterprise Project

Deleting an Enterprise Project Many organizations lock down the permission to delete an enterprise project. If you are unable to perform the steps below, your organization has disabled this command. Caution: Once projects have been deleted they cannot be restored in Project Online. Only delete if you [...]

Modifying the Quick Access Toolbar

Modifying the Quick Access Toolbar As a trainer for PPM Works, I see the struggle new users have when learning how to use Microsoft Project. One of the biggest challenges is learning where all the commands are located. In 2010 Microsoft Project was “ribbonized”. As an experienced [...]