From: pjelliott on
Roland

Thanks for the suggestion - alas, I tried saving as 2007 and it made no
difference.

Any further suggestions out there please?

Kind regards

Peter

"Roland" wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I have not seen the behavior you've mentioned. I might suggest you save the
> schedule as a Project 2007 schedule. Then when you want to create a file to
> send to your client you could save a new file down into Project 2003 format.
>
> I think since your working in 2007 and saving continually in 2003 that
> Project may be getting confused as to what you really want from it. It's
> possible once you save it in a 2007 format that you might be able to fix the
> resource issue.
>
> It's possible your file is corrupted but try the above first. Hope this
> works for you.
>
> "pjelliott" wrote:
>
> > I have a project created in Project 2007 which is saved in Project 2000-2003
> > format as my client only has 2003. Until today this had been fine.
> >
> > However, a really strange problem has ocurred whereby I entered a single
> > resource against a task (on a number of individual tasks) but, on saving,
> > Project allocated the same resource to the task 5 or 6 times. I have
> > attempted to delete these duplicate allocations (by going into task
> > information>resources and selecting & deleting the repeated resource then
> > exiting task information via the save option).
> >
> > Unfortunately, this appears to have no effect as they do not disappear from
> > the project and, on reopening the task information dialogue box the multiple
> > instances are all back again.
> >
> > Has anyone got any idea what's going on and, more usefully, how I can get
> > rid of these duplicate allocations please?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Peter