CAUSE
This behavior occurs if the text of the note that you paste in your project
contains a carriage return. If the text contains a carriage return, the
text is pasted to multiple rows on your table. When you paste this text to
the Notes field for a task, the text that follows each carriage return is
entered in the Notes field in the following row. If the following row does
not contain a task, a new task is entered with the default task information
(without a task name). If the following row contains a task that already
has text in the Notes field, the text of the notes field that you pasted
overwrites the existing information in the Notes field.
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Project. When you paste text to a
field in a table, if the text contains a carriage return character, the
information that precedes the carriage return is pasted to the destination
cell, while the text that follows the carriage return is pasted to the
following row. Note that this behavior also occurs when you paste text to
the Task Name field.
This problem can occur when you paste text that you copied from the Notes
box for a task (which can contain carriage return characters), or if you
paste text that you copied from a word processing document, such as a
Microsoft Word document.
WORKAROUNDS
To work around this problem, when you paste text to a Notes field in
your project, use the appropriate method:
Microsoft Project 4.0, 4.1, 98, 2000
- On the Project menu, click Task Information.
- Click the Notes tab.
- Place the insertion point in the Notes box and press CTRL+V.
- Click OK.
Microsoft Project 3.0
Enter the text in the Notes box on the Task Form. To paste the text
without using the Paste command on the Edit menu, press CTRL+V.