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Hotkeys/Tips/Tricks in Primavera

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Valentin SendulaMember for 19 years 4 months
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Hi,

Maybe anyone who knows tips and tricks to easier input loads of info could post their tricks/tips/hotkeys in this thread.
As a new user I am still discovering new ways of making working in Primavera easier.
I was wondering if anyone knows any hotkeys in Primavera, like you have in MS Office. For instance Ctrl+C = copy, Ctrl+v = paste, Ctrl+X = cut.
Also the other day I discovered that in Assignments you can do a fill down on the Budgeted units. This is easier, cause otherwise you have to change them one by one in resources tab, cause adjusting them in the column BL Project Labor Units is not possible, while under assignments you can change it in the column.

So whatever you experienced guys know and think this might be useful to a newbie, please post it here.
I myself hate the lack of the possibility of hotkeys and macro’s in P3E.

Thanks.

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    A D ·
    #1
    In P3 help, check the shortcut keys.

    You will find a load of shortcut keys
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    Kevin Button ·
    #2
    Other than what is listed on Primavera help I have found only 2 other shortcuts/tips.

    1. When you have selected a bar that has a + or - symbol, pressing CTRL + TAB will expand or collapse that line. This works on Resources, codes, activity summary lines and other hierarchical structures.

    2. While in the Activities screen use CTRL + Roll Mousewheel to scroll one screen at a time.
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    Alex Wong ·
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    Hi

    A quick way of building a project plan from a list is using import and export function

    Normally I copy the list of WBS from the orignal specification, BOQ, Deliverable list, milestone list ...
    Fill that in a excel spreadsheet with preliminary dates and resource budget hrs Q $, then import it into my P3e schedule. Once its in then I start to detail each WBS and link them together to create a CPM.

    HTH

    Alex
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    Samir Gharib ·
    #4
    good approach Alex.

    regards
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    Rommel Jay Galvez ·
    #5

    Thank you for this.

    Thank you for this.

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    Zoltan Palffy ·
    #6

    what you mentioned are

    what you mentioned are standard windows operating based short cut and will work in any windows based program and is not just MS Office based

    F9= schedule project

    F5= Refresh screen

    F1=Help

    F2=edit

    F3=Find Next 

    F7 = Spell Check

    F10=Save schedule or comit changes

    Shift +F2 = Reorganize now

    Shift + F9 = Level Resources

    Ctrl-N = New project 

    Ctrl-O = Open Project

    Ctrl-W = Close all projects

    Ctrl-P = Print

    Ctrl-X = cut

    Ctrl-C= Copy 

    Ctrl-P = Paste

    Ctrl-A = Select All

    Ctrl-E = Fill down

    Ctrl-F = Find

    Ctrl-R = Replace

    Ctrl-Num + = Expand all

    Ctrl-Num - = Collapse all

     

     

     

     

     

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