Deleting Inserted Projects

[Jon]

We have MS Project 2003 Standard Edition on our PC and we use a Master
Project file to manage and run reports across all of our instered
projects. We have a few inserted projects that are now 100% complete,
however when we delete the rows to remove the projects, they don't get
deleted. If I have the task name selected and hit delete, than only the
task name is deleted.

There is a message that the selected item has actual values and if I
wanted to continue to delete. I indicate "Yes", yet nothing happens.

Any ideas?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Jon,

In Project 2003 you have to select the whole line (through selecting the ID)
before hitting the delete key or go through Edit, delete task.

 

[Jon]

We tried that and the Master file still thinks the link to the inserted
project still exists. It won't go away.

We've even tried deleting the sub-project file from the folder that
they are all colocated in, but that didn't work either.

It used to work fine in Project 98 and 2000.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Did you create the master file yourself (Insert, Project) or is it
generated by opening a resource pool?

 

[Jon]

Its a master file with several inserted projects.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

I'm running out of ideas. YOU may send me the file I shall have a look.

 

[Jon]

I don't know if I can send you the file since it's technically gov't
proprietary schedules. I could make something up and email it however.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Jon,

I don't know if you were able to resolve the problem by sending the file to
Jan, but I believe the specific problem you identified was a bug in Prj 2003
that was fixed. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834684

I recommend installing Service Pack 1 for MS Project as the fix to the above
problem was included.

Hope this helps.

Julie

 

[Jon]

Yes! That did it. Hopefully it was okay for me to download SP1.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Jon,

Glad to know SP-1 worked and thanks for the feedback.
I know many companies restrict what can be downloaded, but working without
all necessary fixes can create more problems than the download ;-)

Let us know if we can help again.
Julie