Actual Start, Finish, and Work

[Dave]

I have a question regarding tracking actual start, finish and work. Here's
an example:
Planned start: April 10, Planned Finish: April 15 (5 working days), Planned
work: 80 hours (between 2 resources @ 100% each)
Actual start: April 10, Actual Finish: April 12, Actual work: 60 hours
(between 2 resources).

This is an example that I can't get to work because when I enter the actual
start and finish it calculates the hours it took, and when I enter the actual
hours it changes the actual start and finish.

I have a feeling this has a basic answer but I'm fairly new at this.

Thanks in advance.
Dave

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

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[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

First put Work to 60 hrs
Then task to 100%
There is practically no exception to my rule that whenever you entyer a
fionish date in project, it will react differently to what people expect.
So never enter a finish date )

 

[Dave]

The thing is I need to have a particular finish date as well.

 

[Jim Aksel]

Jan's answer will work, key the actual finish date into the [Actual Finish]
column after claiming 100%.
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[Dave]

Another example where I can't get it to work:
Baseline duration 14 days, baseline work 5 hrs. When I change the actual
duration to 11 days through changing actual start and finish, I am unable to
change the work to 10 hours. It keeps pushing my finish date back further.

Does this make sense?

Jan's answer will work, key the actual finish date into the [Actual Finish]
column after claiming 100%.
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The thing is I need to have a particular finish date as well.