Editable tables and cells

[Lars]

Hi All,

I am getting back into MSP after some time of abstinence, and I have an
issue that I can't figure out. I have a test project that I have saved with
a baseline to do some trackning exercises. In the Cost table I can edit the
"Total Cost" and "Baseline Cost" columns, which I think I should't be able
to do. At the same time I can't edit the "Actual" column, which I thougt I
should be able to....

Any clues?

Cheers
Lars

 

[Rob Schneider]

Lars,

"Total Cost" in the cost table is actually the "Cost" field. in the
table they use the label "Total Cost" for some reason. Hover the mouse
pointer on the heading, and you can see the link to "Help on Cost" and
see there where this is is shown as a "calculated or entered" field.
Same is true for the Baseline cost which is "calculated or entered".
Read in these Help articles more about this to get your questions answered.

--rms

 

[Projectability]

Lars,

You cannot edit Actual Cost values until a task is 100% complete - Project
will calculate actual cost based upon the task % complete and the original
assigned resource cost and any fixed cost. Once a task is complete you can
enter the Actual cost to be whatever you want as opposed to what Microsoft
Project calculates the actual cost to have been.

--
Dominic Moss

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