Editing the Actual Cost column?

[Antartica Solutions - Lars Hallin]

Hi All,

Been gone from the MSP world for a while and now it's time to get back and
up to date. I remember (incorrectly?) that it used to be possible to edit
the values in the "Actual Cost" column, to diplay a) how much money has been
spent and b) how much remains to be spent as a consequense of f.i. a delay.
I want to update the plan with $ spent and % complete, and not having to
touch the "Total Cost" coulmn.

Probably a one-line answer to this?

Cheeers
Lars

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

If you want to edit actual cost, go to tools, options, calcuulation, and
uncheck "Actual Costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project"

However, Project's calculations differ from your expectations. Entering an
actual cost leaves remaining cost as is, and total cost gets updated. You
can then edit total cost to recalculate remaining cost :-(

To compare to the original value, you can also compare to BaselineCost
(supposing you have set a baseline)

Hope this helps,

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