One of our readers, John Aller of AT&T Government Solutions, submitted the
following question regarding MS Project Tips, and we had our resident "guru" Eric
Uyttewaal answer him. We thought others might be interested in both the question
and the response. We hope you find this helpful!

Judy Umlas
Co-Publisher, allPM.com


I like MS Project Tips. I try to put them to use whenever I can. What would be
a great would be some tips about documenting changes in the project. My sponsors
like to see the changes in dates, durations documented. I am currently using
the Notes column. However, this doesn't print well with Gantt charts and printing
it at the end has limited utility. Additionally, it seems there is a field limit.

Thanks for your great work
Best regards,
John Aller
AT&T Govt Solutions

Eric U. responded to John:
John, there are two ways of printing Notes:
- as a separate page through File, Page Setup, tab View
- in between the tasks by using a Report, choose Views, Reports, click Custom,
select a Task report and click Edit, tab Definition, select Notes

The next best way is to save your entire project in MS Access and add fields
to the tables in MS Access in which you capture the changes.

Hope this helps...

Eric Uyttewaal, PMP
Vice-President, MS Project Certification
International Institute for Learning, Inc.