This Project is Done - Now to make it go away...

[Kurt Cohen]

Actually, I'd just like to file it.

Or note somehow that it's "done".

And unchecking the due date doesn't do either of these things, and
doesn't record if we hit the deadline or missed it.

I've tried "archiving" - but the project still sits there.

I'd like to have an accessable record of what was said and done, with
all of the great filing capabilities of the Project Center (folders on
the desktop, etc.) but projects (at least in my company) come and
projects go, except in Microsoft Entourage, where a project, it seems,
is forever there, getting one more day overdue every day.

Is there any possible way to do what I'm asking here? It seems so
simple, yet so elusive...

Please note: renaming "Project 1" to "Project 1 - Done", unchecking the
due date, and deleting things individually off the file system is NOT a
solution.

Thanks for any and all responses.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Actually, I'd just like to file it.

Or note somehow that it's "done".

And unchecking the due date doesn't do either of these things, and
doesn't record if we hit the deadline or missed it.

I've tried "archiving" - but the project still sits there.

I'd like to have an accessable record of what was said and done, with
all of the great filing capabilities of the Project Center (folders on
the desktop, etc.) but projects (at least in my company) come and
projects go, except in Microsoft Entourage, where a project, it seems,
is forever there, getting one more day overdue every day.

Is there any possible way to do what I'm asking here? It seems so
simple, yet so elusive...

Archive and then delete the project. You might need to empty the Finder
Watch folder for that project too - I haven't tried it yet.

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[Kurt Cohen]

Archive and then delete the project. You might need to empty the Finder
Watch folder for that project too - I haven't tried it yet.

This is not a solution. I do not want to delete the project! I need to
reference what happened, rather like a project folder in a filing
cabinet, I may need to pull it out and grab something inside it.

This is _exactly_ how projects work in the real world:

"Hey, we used that cool format in the Peterson project last quarter.
Can we get that file?"

And I open my "Closed Projects" folder, click on the "Peterson"
project, and there it is.

Seems logical to me!

I'm using Office 2004, by the way.

Kurt

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

This is not a solution. I do not want to delete the project! I need to
reference what happened, rather like a project folder in a filing
cabinet, I may need to pull it out and grab something inside it.

This is _exactly_ how projects work in the real world:

"Hey, we used that cool format in the Peterson project last quarter.
Can we get that file?"

And I open my "Closed Projects" folder, click on the "Peterson"
project, and there it is.

Seems logical to me!

I'm using Office 2004, by the way.

Sorry, I don't understand. At the moment, that's exactly what you can do. I
thought you wanted a way to get rid of the project?

You should be able to stop sharing of the project, (click the Share button)
which will remove all the overhead of synchronizing on the server. That way
you can just go in and check anything when you need to. Click the Properties
button and uncheck the Due Date, which will stop it giving you Overdue
notices. I think that's all you want, right?

Alternately, archive and delete the original., as I said Any time you need
to check anything, in the old project just import the Archive and it will
all be back in a flash.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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