Row height is fixed, unchangable, and silly

[lcVic]

When I create a new project file from the "blank project" template, my row
height is HUGE. I can not change the row height in any way that I can see
possible.

My font is Arial, size 8.

This happened a couple of months ago and I haven't been able to figure it
out. I do have Project Server on my network, but it happens regardless of
whether or not I use the Project Server features and regardless of whether or
not I'm online.

There's no good, apparent reason for this. Anyone know what to do?

 

[JulieS]

Hi Vic,
Try changing the table set up. View > Tables > More Tables. Select the
offending table and click Edit. Can you change the row height in the Table
Definition dialog box?
You may also be able to change row height by dragging the row header
(numbers) up or down.

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

Julie

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

The culprit may be a bar definition.
Format, Bar Styles.
First check the column called "Row" and put any number >1 back to 1.
Naw (sorry for the extra work) look at each bar definition, at Text, to
check whether there are no texts defined above and below the bar.

Just a hunch, of course, but since you seem to have checked the obvious..

Or... if this happens in a particular view, through tools, organizer, copy
the original version of this view from global.mpt into your project..

HTH

 

[lcVic]

I appreciate the timely responses from both you and JulieS. Unfortunatley,
neither was a working solution.

Changing tables has no effect -- this is some sort of Global setting on all
tables. The Row Size is "1" in both the table edit and the Bar Styles.

I have even deleted all of the global.mpt files that I could find. When that
didn't fix it, I got a global.mpt from a co-worker and replaced mine. That
didn't work either.

I even clicked the Detect and Repair in Help. They should call that the
thousand dollar menu item because that's what it costs to get your machine
working again after you click it. I had to start over with Outlook
afterwards, and that didn't really impress me. In my simple world,
"integration" has to do with things working together. With Microsoft Office,
"integration" is a code word for dysfunctional codependence. Did I mention
how frustrating it was to lose Outlook over this problem?

By the way, I can also NOT manually change row size with the mouse.

This isn't the end of the world, I guess, but it is a fairly stupid problem
to have.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Vic,

Sorry the response didn't work. You mentioned in the original post that
this was occurring whether you were connected to Project Server. Does this
happen to anyone else? I am just wondering if there is a problem with the
Enterprise Global and the table. Sorry, I know very little about Project
Server, so this is a shot in the dark.

Julie

 

[lcVic]

Nope, just me.

Probably an uninstall/reinstall situation, huh?

 

[JulieS]

Hi Vic,

Yes, it sounds like that is the last trick to try.

Let us know how you get along.

Julie