Project 2016 - Introduction

Project 2016

Lesson – Working with Tasks

Steps

Practice Data

3. Select a duration of 0 days for the milestone task. The duration appears.

Set the Duration spinner

buttons to 0 days for the Complete Planning Phase task.

4. Press [Enter] .

Press [Enter].

The milestone task appears on the Gantt chart as a filled diamond shape with the task date beside it.

NOTE On the Task tab in the Insert group, click the New Milestone

button

and type the milestone name.

E NTERING A R ECURRING T ASK

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Discussion

You may have tasks that occur at regular intervals during a project, such as a weekly progress meeting. Instead of entering each individual occurrence of the task, create a recurring task. A recurring task appears on the project schedule at the specified intervals and is identified by a recurring task indicator. The recurring task indicator appears as two arrows in a circular formation. When you create a recurring task, type the recurring task name, the recurring task duration (the length of time it takes for each occurrence), the time increment (daily, weekly, monthly), and the frequency within each time increment (every, every other). Also indicate how many task occurrences you want to schedule, or allow Microsoft Project to default and schedule the recurring task throughout the project. In addition, you can choose a calendar to use when scheduling the task. If you attempt to schedule a recurring task on a nonworking day, Microsoft Project will prompt you to change it to the next working day.

Since a recurring task can appear throughout the length of a project, place it anywhere in the task list. You may want to enter all recurring tasks at the end of the project if they are meetings and similar types of tasks, or insert recurring tasks where they are appropriate.

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