When entering progress made on a selected task in a project file, you can either individually mark the “percentage complete” or the “actual work values” completed. Often tasks with a long duration will need to have their completion progress measured and marked individually as the work is completed over time.
#Using tasks in outlook 2013 update
You will often need to update the work performed on individual tasks in a project file. You will also see the task progress indicated by a progress bar that highlights the tasks in the bar chart at the right side of the Gantt Chart view in your project file. Note that after you update the project’s progress, the individual tasks listed within the Gantt Chart view of your project file will then display a small check mark in the far left “Information” column to mark them as completed. This allows you to then update some tasks individually, as needed.
This time, however, you would choose the “Selected tasks” option button in the “For:” section to update only the selected tasks as of the date selected. Once they have been selected, you can open the “Update Project” dialog box again. Remember that you can select multiple, non-adjacent tasks in a list by holding down the “Ctrl” key on your keyboard as you click the task names. In this case, first select the tasks to update within the Gantt Chart view of your project file. Note that if you only wish to update multiple tasks as of a selected date, but not necessarily all the tasks, you can also do that by using the “Update Project” dialog box. You can then click the “OK” button to update the project tasks. Next, in the “For:” section, you can select the “Entire project” option to update all tasks in the project as of the selected date. Next, select the desired date to mark the work completed through by selecting the desired date from the adjacent calendar drop-down arrow. In the “Update Project” dialog box that appears, you can select the “Update work as complete through:” option button, first. To update multiple tasks in a project as of a selected date, click the “Update Project” button in the “Status” button group on the “Project” tab in the Ribbon. You can use this feature when a project has completed 100% of the tasks on schedule as of a set date.
#Using tasks in outlook 2013 how to
In this lesson, we will examine how to mark multiple tasks completed as of a specified date. You can update the tasks individually, or you can mark multiple tasks complete as of a selected date.
Once you have saved your baseline copy and work has started on your project, you need to record the progress (actual work) performed on the tasks within the project file. For example, you can see the variance between your baseline task durations and your actual task durations when using the “Variance” view of the table within a Gantt Chart view of your project file. Once you have a baseline created, you can then compare the saved values in the baseline against the actual work values that you record. You can then click the “OK” button to save your current project file as the selected baseline. Next, in the “For:” section, select the “Entire project” option button. You can have up to eleven different baseline copies of your project file that you can create for comparison purposes. In the “Set Baseline” dialog box that appears, select the “Set baseline” option button and then select the name of the baseline copy that you want to create from the adjacent drop-down. In the drop-down menu that appears, select the “Set Baseline…” command. To save a baseline copy of your project file, click the “Project” tab in the Ribbon and then click the “Set Baseline” drop-down button in the “Schedule” button group. This data can then be displayed and printed using the different views and reports within Microsoft Project. This allows you to compare the actual values, durations, and work associated with the completion of the project’s tasks to your original baseline plan. You can use the baseline as a reference point later on as you begin to track the actual work performed on the project. Before you begin to record the actual progress made (actual work performed) on the tasks within your project file, you should save a copy of the original project plan. At this point in your project development, you should have an initial project plan created.