Microsoft KB Archive/113985

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Default Formatting Lost Opening View File in Project 4.0

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Q113985

kbusage kbtshoot

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Project for Windows, version 4.0
 * Microsoft Project for the Macintosh, version 4.0

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SYMPTOMS
When you open a Microsoft Project 1.0 or 3.0 view file in Microsoft Project version 4.0, the formatting displayed in some of the views is different than it is in earlier version of Microsoft Project.

CAUSE
In Microsoft Project, if you don't modify the formatting of an item contained in the view file, for example the pattern for a noncritical task bar, the item is not saved to the view file. This behavior is by design. When you open a view file, the default formatting for any item contained in the view file is used if the item is not found in the view file.

The default formatting for some of the items in the view file in Microsoft Project version 4.0 is different from the version 3.0 formatting. Because of this difference, when you open a Microsoft Project version 3.0 view file in Microsoft Project version 4.0, and you have not changed the formatting of any of the items in the version 3.0 view file, some of the items appear with formatting that is different from the formatting they had in Microsoft Project version 3.0.

WORKAROUND
To avoid having the formatting of items in your version 3.0 view file appear differently when you open the file in Microsoft Project version 4.0, if Microsoft Project version 3.0 is available to you, do the following:


 * 1) Open the view file in Microsoft Project version 3.0.
 * 2) Change the formatting of any item in the view file. For example, choose Text from the Format menu. From the Font box, select 12, and choose OK.
 * 3) From the View menu, choose Define Views. Choose the Save button. In the Save View As dialog box, choose OK. In the Define Views dialog box, choose Close.

All of the items in the view are saved with their formatting in the view file. You can change the item formatted in step 2 above back to the original formatting if desired.

MORE INFORMATION
To change the formatting of items in Microsoft Project version 4.0 to the default formatting of the items in the Microsoft Project version 3.0 view file, VIEW.MPV, when you do not have access to Microsoft Project version 3.0 to use the workaround provided above, you must manually change the formatting of the items. The following is a list of the differences in the formatting of some of the default items in the Gantt Chart view between versions 4.0 and 3.0.

Text Styles
 Version 4.0           Version 3.0 --- Row & Column Titles  MS Sans Serif 8 Bold    MS Sans Serif 8 Regular Bar Text             MS Sans Serif 8 Bold    MS Sans Serif 8 Regular (Left, Right Top and Bottom)

Layout
                Version 4.0         Version 3.0

Bar Height          12                   10

Bar Styles
          Version 4.0                    Version 3.0 - Critical    None                      Appearance: Solid Red Show For: Normal, Critical From: Start To: Finish Noncritical None                      Appearance: Solid Blue bar Show For: Normal, Noncritical From: Start To: Finish

Progress From: Complete Through  From: % Complete

Rolled Up    None                     Appearance: Framed Diamond Show For: Rolled Up, Not Summary From: Finish To: Finish Rolled Up Task                        None Rolled Up Milestone                   None Rolled Up Progress                    None

Timescale
                    Version 4.0               Version 3.0 -- Nonworking Time  Draw Behind Task Bars        Do Not Draw

Gridlines
                  Version 4.0                 Version 3.0 -- Current Date   Type: thin dotted             Type: dashed Additional query words:

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Issue type : kbbug

Technology : kbHWMAC kbOSMAC kbProjectSearch kbProject400Mac kbProjectMacSearch kbProject400