Project 2016 Intermediate

Project 2016

Lesson – Tracking Your Progress

Update your project often. These updates allow Microsoft Project to warn you of potential problems and help your project get completed as close to the original finish date and budget as possible.

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Discussion

Microsoft Project allows you to update completed tasks that start and finish on schedule. When a task is marked as 100% complete, the corresponding data in the Start , Finish , Duration , Work , and Cost fields is automatically copied to the actual data fields for the task. In addition, the Gantt chart displays a thin, black bar within the thicker task bar called the progress bar. The progress bar indicates the task’s progress or its percentage of completion. When a task is marked as 100% complete, the progress bar extends the entire length of the task bar. A check mark appears in the Indicators column in the Gantt Chart view, indicating that the task is complete.

Updating a completed task

NOTE In addition to marking a task 100% complete, use the buttons in the Task ribbon Schedule group to record that a task is 25%, 50% and 75% complete. Also remove recorded progress by marking a task as 0% complete.

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