2007 and 2003

[Hfactor]

I'm running XP,Office 2007, Project 2007 and Visio 2007.
Many of my coworkers and customers are running Project 2003.
We've been experiencing alot of compatibility issues.

Here are my questions:
1. When will the product converter be ready? According to the MS website,
it won't be ready until late 2007. Are there any third party products which
can help until then?

2. I created the mpp in 2007 and have saved it as a 2000-2003. Dates are
being extended to the timeline. Is there a list of profile settings or things
to check on each computer to see what could be causing this problem? None of
us have automatic calculation and resource leveling turned on.

3. I had used background colors in the cells to identify Milestones,
Deliverables and critical Dependencies we have on the customer. These are
lost when you open the mpp file in 2003. Any suggestions?

4. I am using the outline feature to show the WBS numbers. They are being
truncated. How can I fix this?

Fortunately, the project plan is only 150 lines long, so it's not a matter
of it being too big and getting corrupted.

Unless I can get these problems fixed, I'm going to have to go back to 2003.
Please help
Thank you

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Hfactor,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Wow! You sure have a lot of problems! You might need to separate them into
different posts. For a start, I don't know what a converter can do - saving
as 2003 should work satisfactorily, though features that are new to 2007
cannot possibly work in an earlier version. For instance, cell colouring was
not implemented before the 2007 version. I can understand why you have
automatic levelling turned off, but you really need to have automatic
calculation turned on, otherwise you're bound to get differences and false
schedules - sooner or later you'll have to invoke calculation.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials