Project: Gantt Bars Disappear When You Insert New Entries
  
PSS ID Number: Q111893
Article last modified on 03-15-1995
 
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WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Project for Windows, versions 1.0, 3.0, 3.0a, 4.0
 - Microsoft Project for the Macintosh, versions 1.1, 3.0
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SYMPTOM
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When you insert new entries into the Gantt Chart Palette, if you exceed the
20 bar limit, existing entries will be lost.
 
NOTE: You do not receive an error message alerting you that bars will be
deleted if the number of entries exceeds 20.
 
CAUSE
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The Gantt Chart Palette cannot have more than 20 entries.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Problem
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The following steps can be used to reproduce the behavior in versions older
than 4.0.
 
1. From the Format menu, choose Palette.
 
2. Click the Insert button 20 times.
 
3. Scroll to the bottom of the list.
 
All of the existing bars are gone, and the palette is empty (it contains
the blank fields you inserted by choosing the Insert button).
 
STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft
Project for Windows listed above. We are researching this problem and will
post more information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes
available.
 
KBCategory: kbusage
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Additional reference words: 1.00 1.10 3.00 3.00a 4.00
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