RUSSIAN TRANSLATION IN PRIMAVERA 5.0

WHEN WORKING FOR RUSSIAN PROJECT, THE CLIENT (RUSSIAN) ASKS FOR A RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF THE SCHEDULE. THE ACTIVITY NAME/ DESCRIPTION HAS TO BE CHANGED TO RUSSIAN.

SIMPLE WAY IS
1. TRANSLATE THE ACTIVITY NAME IN RUSSIAN IN EXCEL SHEET (KEEP THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATION BESIDE THE ENGLISH ONE)
2. GO TO P3
3. OPEN P3. CHOOSE PROJECT. GO TO FILE MENU AND CLICK EXPORT
4. IN THE EXPORT CRITERIA CHOOSE EXCEL (XLS)
5. IN THE COLUMN CRITERIA CHOOSE ACT. ID, ACT NAME AND BLANK ACT, USER TEXT
5. SAVE THIS FILE IN LOCAL DRIVE (MY DOCUMENT OR C DRIVE)
6. COPY/ PASTE THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATED EXCEL FILE IN TO THIS EXPORTED XLS FILE.
7. AGIAN GO BACK TO PRIMAVERA AND CLICK IMPORT
8. THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATED VERSION WILL BE VIEWED IN THE ACTIVITY USER TEXT COLUMN (DEFINE THIS COLUMN IN THE LAYOUT). IN SOME CASES THE SET LANGUAGES IN P3 HAS TO BE CHANGED TO "RUSSIAN".

HOWEVER WHEN USING WINDOWS 2000 OR XP FOLLOWING HAS TO BE DONE

1. CHANGE THE LANGUAGE SETTING FROM ENGLISH TO RUSSIAN
2. GO TO CONTROL PANEL, CHOOSE REGIONAL OPTION. CLICK LANGUAGES. CHOOSE ADVANCE. CHOOSE RUSSIAN (TICK MARJ THE CRYLIC FONT).
3. SHUTDOWN AND RESTART THE WINDOWS
4. IN THIS WAY ONE WOULD BE SUCCESSFULL IN IMPORTING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH P3