Microsoft KB Archive/142075

PRJ41: Project Stops Responding Clicking Inserted Note-It Icon

PSS ID Number: Q142075 Article last modified on 01-30-1996

4.10

WINDOWS

= SYMPTOMS =

In Microsoft Project, if you click rapidly more than once on a Microsoft Note-It picture that has been embedded in a Gantt Chart, Microsoft Project will appear to stop responding.

= CAUSE =

Activating the Note-It application from Microsoft Project for Windows 95 takes longer than usual. Double-clicking rapidly stores the mouse actions and attempts to read the Note-It message – only very slowly. Thus, mouse actions get back logged and it appears as if Microsoft Project is not responding.

Given enough time, Microsoft Project will again respond. At any time, however, you can switch out of Microsoft Project to another task.

= WORKAROUND =

Instead of quickly double-clicking the Note-It picture, click the picture once and click Microsoft Note-It Object from the Edit menu and click Read or Edit on the cascading menu. Alternatively, click the picture with your secondary mouse button and click Edit or Read from the shortcut menu. In all cases, you’ll have to wait a moment before any action appears to happen.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post more information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Microsoft Note-It is a 16-bit OLE server shipped with applications such as Microsoft Works for Windows.

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= Additional reference words: 4.10 =

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1996.