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11/7/2011  Eric Uyttewaal, PMP, MVP 

Struggling with over-allocations in your schedule? Here is a quick way of resolving them by dragging an assignment from one resource to another resource that is available. This approach works in all version of Microsoft Project.

Uyttewaal Figure 1

Eric Uyttewaal


Eric Uyttewaal is the president of ProjectPro http://www.projectprocorp.com/and author of the popular book, Forecast Scheduling with Microsoft Project 2010. Contact him at EricU@ProjectProCorp.com.
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