Project 2003 "View" Problem

[Charles]

When using Project 2003, I add the appropriate colums of information that I
need (using the Insert Column command). I guess you might say that I have
thus created a custom layout (or view).

If I then select View from the menu bar and select a different view (e.g.
Gantt, or Calendar) and then try to return to the "custom" view that I had
previously established, all of my columns are gone and I have to add all the
colums back again. How can I save my "custom" view so that I can return to
it any time without having to recreate the view from scratch?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Two comments are necessary on this

First, what you created is not a "View" it is a "Table" (vie is just as
logical, but sorry, that is how it is called)

Second, what surprises me is that you lose the table you made. Normally you
don't .... at least in the same file. All changes to a table are stores in
the file. When you open an other file it will have its own tables.

If you want to make a table of your own and make it available to all
projects:

Make the table (i.e. insert/delmete the desired columns)

View
Table: xxxxx
More tables
Edit
Give this table a new name

To make it available to all projects:
Tools
Organizer
Tables
Select it in the file's window, copy it to Global.mpt

If you want a certain view always to use this table
View
More Views
Select< the View
Edit
Table: select
OK

And finally if you want this view to be available to all, copy it tio the
global (you now know how )
HTH

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Charles,
In fact, when you inserted a column, you customized a Table (You can create
Tables from your own too)
Check the name of the active table in View / Table....
or Right click of the upper left angle of the sheet

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Charles]

Thank you! That solved my problem completely.

I appreciate your time!

Charles

 

[Charles]

Thank you. I appreciate your information.

Hello Charles,
In fact, when you inserted a column, you customized a Table (You can create
Tables from your own too)
Check the name of the active table in View / Table....
or Right click of the upper left angle of the sheet

Gérard Ducouret