PRJ98: Total Cost Different from Edited Timephased Actual Cost

• Microsoft Project 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, when you edit timephased assignment Actual Cost for a task that is in-progress, you may see a different value in the Total Cost field when compared to the total of the timephased cost.

CAUSE

This behavior may occur when following conditions are true:

• The Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project check box is clear. To locate this option, on the Tools menu click Options, and then click the Calculations tab.

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• You manually enter timephased actual cost data for an in-progress task that has a resource with a Cost Per Use assigned to it.

WORKAROUND

To correct this problem, install Microsoft Project 98 for Windows Service Release 1 (SR-1).

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).

For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q185102
TITLE : PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1

Additional query words: tracking

Keywords          : kbdta projwin 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: July 13, 1999