Project 2013 Intermediate

Project 2013

Lesson 7 - Customizing Project Information

Practice the Concept: Open the Options dialog box again. Change the assignment units to display percentages and the default duration to be entered in days. Close the Options dialog box to save the settings.

S ETTING C ALCULATION O PTIONS

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Discussion

You can set options on the Calculation page in the Options dialog box to control how Microsoft Project calculates project information. You can indicate if you want calculations performed automatically, which is the default, or only when you specify. You can control calculations when working with multiple projects, as well as an individual project. For the current project, you can specify how you want Microsoft Project to calculate project status information, inserted projects, actual costs, fixed costs, and multiple critical paths. In addition, you can set the amount of slack critical tasks can have (the default is 0 ) and select how you want the completed and uncompleted parts of a task rescheduled around the status date.

NOTE If you set the calculation method to Manual , you need to select the Calculate Now button on the Calculation page in the Options dialog box when you want to update your project data. Otherwise, the project data will not be updated properly.

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