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Sign up for other newsletters | Unsubscribe | Update your profile Change the Microsoft Office Word Smart Quote Auto-correct Setting By default, Word replaces straight quotes with smart quotes. To change this setting: 1. Click the Office button. 2. Click Word Options. 3. Click Proofing, and then click AutoCorrect Options. 4. Click the AutoFormat tab. 5. Clear the Straight quotes with smart quotes check box. 6. Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab. 7. Clear the Straight quotes with smart quotes check box. 8. Click OK twice. Managing Resources in Office Project When you start assigning resources to tasks in Microsoft Office Project, the durations of the tasks automatically change. To understand why, you need to understand how Project allocates resources. Project follows one formula for all internal resourcing calculations: Work = Duration × Resources. In other words, if two men take four hours to mow a lawn, one man will take eight hours, or four men will take two hours, to mow the same lawn. Now you know why task durations constantly change if you add or remove the resources allocated to those tasks. You can stop Project from recalculating time schedules in this way by configuring it to keep one parameter fixed and calculate just the others. 1. Open the task's properties. 2. On the Advanced tab, configure the task type as being Fixed Duration, Fixed Work, or Fixed Units (that is, resources). By changing this setting, you can tell Project what parameters in the equation should remain the same, no matter what changes you make to the task. • Tips and Tricks Web site • Microsoft Office Online • Help Privacy note: Microsoft respects your privacy and that of your friends. Please do not use the Tell a Friend button to send mail to more than 10 people. Microsoft cannot collect any data about the people you send mail to unless they sign up for Tips and Tricks Special Delivery. To cancel your subscription to this newsletter, reply to this message with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. You can also unsubscribe at the Microsoft.com Profile Center. You can manage all your Microsoft.com communication preferences at this site. Legal information Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 Sign up for other newsletters | Unsubscribe | Update your profile © 2008 Microsoft Corporation Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement