Project 2016 Intermediate

Lesson – Working with Baselines

Project 2016

Select task 8 Obtain Permits.

Steps

Practice Data

1. Click the Project tab

The Project ribbon appears

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2. Click the Set Baseline button.

The Set Baseline submenu appears.

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3. Choose the Set Baseline... from the submenu. The Set Baseline dialog box appears.

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4. Select the For: Select Tasks

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The Selected tasks option is selected.

5. Click the OK button.

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The current project baseline is updated.

7. Click Yes to overwrite the old baseline.

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The previous baseline is overwritten.

Notice that the Baseline field for the 8 Obtain Permits task changed to $1,480.00 and the Variance field changed to $0.00 . The variance for the 2 Conduct Site Survey task remains at $70.00 since this task was not added to the baseline.

Practice the Concept: Select task 2 Conduct Site Survey , use the Set Baseline dialog box to save the selected task to the baseline.

S AVING A DDITIONAL B ASELINES

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Discussion

If you are creating a large project plan with many phases, you may want to save a separate baseline as you create or finish each phase of the plan. Microsoft Project can create up to 11 baselines for a project. The first baseline saved is named Baseline . Additional baselines are saved with the names Baseline 1-10 . Each baseline saves the task, resource, and assignment information for the project. Baseline is the baseline that appears on the Gantt Chart .

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