Steve House said:Or just type the initials you like as part of the resource data. You can
put anything you want in there as it's not actually used for assigning
anything. Project's automatically supplying the first character of the
name is just a 'convenience' that i've never really understood the point of.
--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm for the FAQs
Mike Glen said:Hi toeknee ,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Only by inserting the names the other way round. Or you could insert a
new text column to put in the second name and sort on that.
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
toeknee said:Hi Mike and Steve
Thanks for your replies
It is not really important, but I am doing a project with plenty of human
resources.
I have the names on the Gantt bars, that I retrive in the task row from
the
Resource Name field.
In the Resource Sheet I have sorted the names into groups such as Fitters,
Boilermakers, etc and then sorted by Initial, but rather than have a
person
as Smith John, I have them as John Smith which is a more personal touch.
I overcame the problem by just typing over the original initial and
entering
the initial for the second name manually.
I do have another question, because I have a long list of human resources,
is it possible to increase the drop down box when I click on the Resource
Name field, spo that we do not have to keep scrolling, at the moment when
I
click on the drop down box in Resource Names on the Gantt Chart, I only
see
the first 10 resources.
Thanking you in advance
Steve House said:Or just type the initials you like as part of the resource data. You can
put anything you want in there as it's not actually used for assigning
anything. Project's automatically supplying the first character of the
name is just a 'convenience' that i've never really understood the point
of.
--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm for the FAQs
Mike Glen said:Hi toeknee ,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Only by inserting the names the other way round. Or you could insert a
new text column to put in the second name and sort on that.
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
toeknee wrote:
In project resource sheet, the initial is automatically the first
character of the first name, can this be changed to become the first
character of the second name
Mike Glen said:You're welcome, toeknee
Sorry, that is hard coded.
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials
toeknee said:Hi Mike and Steve
Thanks for your replies
It is not really important, but I am doing a project with plenty of human
resources.
I have the names on the Gantt bars, that I retrive in the task row from
the
Resource Name field.
In the Resource Sheet I have sorted the names into groups such as Fitters,
Boilermakers, etc and then sorted by Initial, but rather than have a
person
as Smith John, I have them as John Smith which is a more personal touch.
I overcame the problem by just typing over the original initial and
entering
the initial for the second name manually.
I do have another question, because I have a long list of human resources,
is it possible to increase the drop down box when I click on the Resource
Name field, spo that we do not have to keep scrolling, at the moment when
I
click on the drop down box in Resource Names on the Gantt Chart, I only
see
the first 10 resources.
Thanking you in advance
Steve House said:Or just type the initials you like as part of the resource data. You can
put anything you want in there as it's not actually used for assigning
anything. Project's automatically supplying the first character of the
name is just a 'convenience' that i've never really understood the point
of.
--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm for the FAQs
"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message
Hi toeknee ,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Only by inserting the names the other way round. Or you could insert a
new text column to put in the second name and sort on that.
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
toeknee wrote:
In project resource sheet, the initial is automatically the first
character of the first name, can this be changed to become the first
character of the second name
Hi Mike
Thanks for the reply, much appreciated, it was not a major problem
but it may have made Microsoft Project more friendly useable.
Mike Glen said:You're welcome, toeknee
Sorry, that is hard coded.
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials
toeknee said:Hi Mike and Steve
Thanks for your replies
It is not really important, but I am doing a project with plenty of
human resources.
I have the names on the Gantt bars, that I retrive in the task row
from the
Resource Name field.
In the Resource Sheet I have sorted the names into groups such as
Fitters, Boilermakers, etc and then sorted by Initial, but rather
than have a person
as Smith John, I have them as John Smith which is a more personal
touch. I overcame the problem by just typing over the original
initial and entering
the initial for the second name manually.
I do have another question, because I have a long list of human
resources, is it possible to increase the drop down box when I
click on the Resource Name field, spo that we do not have to keep
scrolling, at the moment when I
click on the drop down box in Resource Names on the Gantt Chart, I
only see
the first 10 resources.
Thanking you in advance
:
Or just type the initials you like as part of the resource data.
You can put anything you want in there as it's not actually used
for assigning anything. Project's automatically supplying the
first character of the name is just a 'convenience' that i've
never really understood the point of.
--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm for the FAQs
"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message
Hi toeknee ,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Only by inserting the names the other way round. Or you could
insert a new text column to put in the second name and sort on
that.
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
toeknee wrote:
In project resource sheet, the initial is automatically the first
character of the first name, can this be changed to become the
first character of the second name