PRJ98: Timephased Percent Complete Recalculated When Entered

• Microsoft Project 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, when you edit the timephased percent complete for a task in the Task Usage view, you may see a different value than you entered for the task.

CAUSE

This behavior is more likely to occur when the following conditions are true:

• The task duration is a large value, for example, a year or longer.
• The timescale shows only months, quarters, or years.
• The timephased work contour has been manually edited.

RESOLUTION

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 Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

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:

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

MORE INFORMATION

Additional query words:

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

Last Reviewed: July 12, 1999