Modifying the Gantt View Time Range

[Greg Patton]

I am setting up a training project. The project's start date is 1-1-2008.
When I open the Gantt view, the graphics pane always starts by displaying
2005. So the students always start with nothing showing and have to scroll
to the right to see their data.

Can I control where the display starts?

I would have assumed it would default to the project start date or possibly
the project status date, but this does not seem to be the case.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Greg,

Well, that certainly is odd. Project file usually opens to the last way
it was saved. Try this:

1. open the file and on our keyboard press and hold Ctrl + Home to
scroll the left side back to the first task in the project.

2. Then press ALT + Home to scroll the timescale back to the first
project task.

3. Save

4. Close.

5. Re-open.

Is it fixed?

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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about Microsoft Project

 

[Greg Patton]

Hi Julie

This did not fix the problem... When I did the Alt+Home nothing happens,
however when I move the timeframe to the left or right and hit Alt+Home it
comes back to where it was.

I did not create this file from scratch, so is it possible that Project
thinks that the earliest task is in 05? Possibly there was a task back there
at one poinnt that has since been fixed.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Greg,

Sorry to hear that did not fix the problem. A couple of other things to
try/check:

Sort the project by start date and make sure there is no task with a
start date back in 2005.
Check the status date of the Project. Is it set at 2005?
Press F5 and in the date portion of the go to dialog box, set 1/1/2008.
Click OK to re-adjust the timescale to the start date of the project.
Save, close, reopen. Is it fixed?

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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about Microsoft Project

 

[Greg Patton]

Hi Julie

Still no good.

This project was created by someone else from a user defined template file.
Is that relevant?

When I create a new test project it does not do this, it always opens to how
I left it when I last saved, as it should.

Nothing I do seems to change how the view displays when I first open the
project, it always goes to 2005.... Why? What am I missing? What controls
this opening view?

Greg Patton

 

[JulieS]

Hi Gary,

No the template should not play a part in the problem you are seeing. I
tested creating a project file from a template with a start date back in
2004 and could not reproduce what you report.

If the file does not contain any sensitive date (top secret stuff) feel
free to zip it up and email it to me at:
passport 6847 at maine dot r r dot com

remove the space and replace at with @ and dot with periods.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information
about Microsoft Project

 

[JulieS]

For those of you following the saga, the problem was fixed by exporting
to XML and then importing back to a new project file. There were some
issues with the file relating to views based on tables that had been
deleted as well as some other issues. All which *may* have contributed
to a mildly corrupt file.

Julie
Project MVP