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Vittorio
How can I entry actual work and work independently in the task usage view?
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Mike Glen
Hi Vittorio ,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Right-click in the timescale area and select Actual Work.
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials
wrote:
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Right-click in the timescale area and select Actual Work.
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials
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jahendren
I understand how to enter "work" and "Actual work"; I want to know how to
enter "actual work" without it changing my "work" entries.
enter "actual work" without it changing my "work" entries.
M
Mike Glen
Hi jahendren ,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Can we have more details please? Project version, where you're entering
Actual Work, which entries are changeing, what you expected...
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials
wrote:
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
Can we have more details please? Project version, where you're entering
Actual Work, which entries are changeing, what you expected...
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials
wrote:
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Steve House
The schedule, or the basic plan you see in the standard views, shows
historical fact for things that have taken place and forecasts for things
that have not taken place. If you have two tasks A and B that are each
expected to require 40 hours of work, you have done A and finished it in 30
hours instead, the plan will indeed change the Work field to reflect the
historical fact that the task took 30 hours instead of 40 when you enter the
Actual Work. How could it not show that since that's what really and truly
took place and becomes the basis for scheduling when B should now be
started. IF you still need to know that A was originally thought to be
going to require 40 hours, that's what the baseline is for. You save a
baseline before starting to post progress and it preserves your original
plan for future reference and it will not change when actuals are posted to
the plan.
historical fact for things that have taken place and forecasts for things
that have not taken place. If you have two tasks A and B that are each
expected to require 40 hours of work, you have done A and finished it in 30
hours instead, the plan will indeed change the Work field to reflect the
historical fact that the task took 30 hours instead of 40 when you enter the
Actual Work. How could it not show that since that's what really and truly
took place and becomes the basis for scheduling when B should now be
started. IF you still need to know that A was originally thought to be
going to require 40 hours, that's what the baseline is for. You save a
baseline before starting to post progress and it preserves your original
plan for future reference and it will not change when actuals are posted to
the plan.