Is there a way to have a task's complete% update automatically ba.

[Levi Page]

Basically I have a task such as project management or general support that
will require about 12 hours of work over a 2 month period. What i would like
is if there was a way for each week or percentage of the two month period for
Microsoft Project to automatically update the completed %. So basically if I
have a five hour task spread out over a week, each day the completed% would
update by 20% (100/5 days=20% a day). Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

The closest you could come is to use the Tools, Tracking, Update Project
menu selection and update for Selected Tasks. You probably could create a
macro to do it when the project is opened but I'd personally be very
reluctant to do that - an automated process like that assumes that
everything always goes exactly according to plan and that almost never
happens in real life. Yes, 1 hour a day for Project Management may be
reasonably constant over the course of the project but you never know, there
might be some emergency mid-way through that requires a lot more than the
budgeted to resolve it and I like to have the actuals reflect what actually
DID happen, not just what was supposed to happen.