It seemed like a simple job: print Gantt Chart of my project such that the time scale fits on one page in Microsoft Project 2007. Below is a picture of what I wanted to do:
+------+ |Page 1| +------+ |Page 2| +------+ |Page n| +------+
Yet MS Project 2007 always printed the final milestone on an even page, so that I ended with twice the number of pages:
+---------+-------+ |Page 1 |Page 2 | +---------+-------+ |Page 3 |Page 4 | +---------+-------+ |Page 2n-1|Page 2n| +---------+-------+
A hack by Pak K. was to shrink the view such that the scale in the top tier of dates in the Gantt Chart is in quarters. A related hack I found is to specify only one tier in the Timescale dialog (select menu item Format / Timescale).
The notes in Print a view on-line help suggests that when printing, the timescale should be scaled down little to fit a small amount of overflow, but that is not the case.
IT IS AWFUL SOFTWARE NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. INSTAED OF SAVING TIME THE USER WASTES TIME TRYING TO GET WORK AROUNDS
ReplyDeleteI cannot print anything because there is no page scale defined.
ReplyDeleteThe box to define the scale is disabled (greyed out) so no printing for me then!
I get a similar problem. When I hit print or print preview the scale is always the same, no matter how I set the timescales or page sizes. Yet, I open the same project on another computer and it works fine. I say project 2007 is bollocks. I'm hand-drawing in future... stoopid program
ReplyDeleteSame BUG still exists. The page setup has scaling all grey (disabled) and if I try to select any other tab it gives an error " The value must be between 10 and 500." The only are to enter a value is gray (disabled)
ReplyDeletems project too much head ache..time consuming and delay of work..
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