Re: Project's calandar should span to 1800 for historical research


tadk (donotspam) wrote:
Sir,

Very true, but if he wanted a prettier view of what he was looking at, such
as how many man hours it took to make the Hoover Dam based on what was there
for a thesis of some kind or a book then it makes sense to me to attempt to
recreate what had already happened. Especially if he has already spent the
money to own Project, might as well use it in a reverse engineering fashion
rather than a top down approach which is how i perceive my use of Project to
be in my work place doing schedules.

Mostly I was interested in what he ended up doing, and how it looked, from a
writers perspective since that is my hobby and so how it worked for him
seemed intersting is the sum.

not to stray from the forum too far, but other than a rote spreadhseet of
dates vs completion, or something, even with pivot tables i am not sure you
could re-project out something like that.

Got to think on that

Tad

Sorry, I assumed he had a passing knowledge of Excel. Maybe he does.
But for your benefit, I'll explain that Excel does a great more than
just tables or pivot tables. It has some pretty good graphing/graphics
capabilities.

Actually, if he doesn't require having the actual dates on which things
occurred on historic projects, he could use sequential dates on the
timeline and maybe get close to what he wants.


"davegb" wrote:


Geoff Russell wrote:
As an engineering historian, I would love to use MS Project to plot the
construction of major historical works, with dates drawn from research
papers, etc.
However, the timeline in MS Project only goes back as far as January 1984.
Is there some way to extend the calendar back to say, 1800?
This would make a great educational application for history students,
archaeologists, etc.

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=b49952a1-2e87-40cb-a73b-fbf74e188372&dg=microsoft.public.project

It might help if you understand that Project is not intended to be a
graphics tool to create timelines of past events. It's intended use is
to schedule projects being planned for the future and to track them in
the present.

You could do something like what you want with Excel.



.