Article ID: 178370
Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q178370
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project 98, if you right-click a custom formatted Gantt bar, and then click Format Bar on the shortcut menu, you may receive one of the following error messages.
In Windows 95
When you click Details, you receive the following message:
In Windows NT
CAUSE
This problem occurs when the task bar you right-click is not in the active window. Microsoft Project incorrectly applies text styles from the active window to the formatted task that you are selecting.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, before you right-click the Gantt Bar, use the left mouse button to click the bar and make it active. You can then right-click the bar and click Format Bar on the shortcut menu.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.
This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).
For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
185102 PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1
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