Recently, Jacques Goupil of MS Project Now! hosted the first of three MPUG WebNLearn sessions on the topic of Project reporting. The following are three questions that surfaced during the event. Members can log in and watch the recorded, on-demand session here.

Can you wrap text in Project 2007?

Answer: Microsoft Project 2007 will only wrap text in table fields if all of the following conditions exist:

• The row height is set to a number greater than 1. Thus if you have a default Gantt chart, you'll need to resize the tasks' row height to see text wrapping.
• The column width is too narrow to display all the text on one line.
• The text includes spaces between words. If you have one long word, then it won't wrap.

If these conditions don't exist, you need to increase the row height and others manually to get Project 2007 to wrap text.
However, Project 2010 wraps text automatically.

Can both Project 2007 and Project 2010 be installed on the same workstation? I would like to start using v2010 but everyone else at my work uses either 2007 or 2003.

Answer: Yes you can have both Project 2007 and Project 2010 installed on your workstation (given that it meets the requirements, which are very minimal). However, you can't have both versions open at the same time. Only one version (either Project 2007 or Project 2010) per workstation can be open at a time.

When resources are shared, what happens to the resource being allocated for the same time across multiple projects?

Answer: Project 2010 Professional and Standard offer the Resource Pool functionality. If a resource is shared, you can see that resource's availability and assignments across all projects that are using the same Shared Resource Pool.

Jacques Goupil, PMP, MCP, MCTS, is a managing partner at MS Project Now!, a consultancy focused on delivering project, portfolio, and business management solutions. Jacques has been recognized by Microsoft for his blogs covering the Project Ignite 2010 events. He has 11-plus years of professional experience in software design, implementation, and development in the project management area. An active member of the project management community serving as a board member of the Boston Chapter of MPUG, Jacques is trainer and consultant with a very strong background in project management. He's an active volunteer with Operation Smile (and former chapter board member) and enjoys traveling with his family and training for marathons. Connect to his professional network on LinkedIn.