PRJ98: Project Stops Responding After Changing Task Actual Work

• Microsoft Project 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, when you edit the Actual Work field for a task in the Task Usage view, Microsoft Project may stop responding.

CAUSE

This behavior may occur when all of the following conditions are true:

• The Task Usage view is the active view.



• Resources are assigned to the task.



• Actual work has been entered previously on the task.



• You edit the task actual work in the Actual Work field in a task table.

RESOLUTION

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

If you do not have SR-1, you can work around this problem by forcing Microsoft Project to recalculate the project schedule. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the Tools menu, click Options and click the Calculation tab.



2. Under Calculation, click Automatic. Click OK.



3. Change the duration of any task in the project. This forces a recalculation of the project schedule.



4. On the Edit menu, click Undo Entry. This returns the duration to the original value.

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

Additional query words: hang hangs hanging hung lock up locks locking locked lockup freeze freezes freezing froze frozen stop stopping stopped won't respond waiting

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

Last Reviewed: July 9, 1999