Deleting Inserted Projects

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Richard W

I have a master project (in MSP 2003) within which I have inserted a number
of sub projects to form a consolidated project. However I am now unable to
delete any of the subprojects from the master project. It will delete the
activities within the sub project, but not its "header" that appears as an
activity in the master project. I am not using resource pools on any of the
projects. In my business we have just converted to 2003 from 2000 and was
unsure whether it is a system configuration problem.
Any ideas?
 
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Rod Gill

If you double-click the header, can you deselect the Link to project option
under the Advanced tab? If so click OK. Now all data will be copied into the
master and you can delete it safely.

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com
 
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Richard W

I have already tried that and I still can't delete the project header as the
link seems to become reactivated when I do another action. Reading some
other posts it appears that the problem has been resolved when service pack
updates have been applied. As I work for a large corporation who are have
just done a software update to 2003 I need to check whether all the bug fix
updates have been incorporated.
 
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Rod Gill

OK. The other thing you can try is to have the Master and Sub-project open
together and then see if you can delete it from the master. Make sure both
files are saved afterwards.



--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com
 
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Dip

Hi Rod,

By master projects and sub projects, do you mean the tasks and sub tasks
that have a lot of inter-dependence?

I have been following your thread and would like to be more confident in
using MS PRoject 2003.

Thank you,
Dip
 
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Rod Gill

An inserted project is when you insert one project into another using the
Insert, Project menu.

Tasks and sub-tasks is when you indent one or more tasks under another.

So what is the problem you have? Please re-state it in Microsoft Project
terms so we can understand what's happening.

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com
 

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