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Project Intro Intermediate course

by - delegate Jackie [1 post] (2008 Jun 27 Fri, 14:49) Reply

How does OLE work ?

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RE: MS Project

by - trainer Andrew platinum contributer [513 posts] (2008 Jun 30 Mon, 09:48) Reply

Hi Jackie,

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a mechanism that allows you embed part of one document in another document. For example in Project you can click in the Select All square (top left corner) to select all of your tasks. From the edit menu choose Copy Task then switch to another application such as Excel and from the Edit menu choose Paste > Special. The dialogue box will show that Excel has recognised the data in its clipboard as a Project object. Choosing this and clicking OK will result in an embedded version of the Gantt chart appearing in your Excel sheet. If Project is installed on the machine double clicking on the embedded chart will will open MS Project within Excel allowing you to browse and manipulate the data.

For a detailed explanation of OLE and how it works take a look at this article on the Microsoft website:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/86008

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Project tip:

Keep constraining dates to a minimum

As far as possible avoid fixing the dates of your tasks. For example try to steer of clear dragging task bars in the Gantt chart to move them on the timeline or entering dates directly into the Start / Finish fields.

Date constraints such as these limit Microsoft Project's ability to automatically adjust your project whenever you add, remove or modify the duration of your tasks. Instead use the logic in your task dependencies that link your tasks to enable Project to calculate the start and finish dates for you.

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