Limiting Work Time with Extended Duration

[Marice]

I am trying to create a plan where I track Work and Actual Work with the
Remaining Work and Duration being automatically calculated. This all works
fine, but I also want to have finite Start and Finish dates. Everytime I
change the Start and Finish Dates the Work is re-calculated. Any assistance
would be most appreciated.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Marice,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Trevor has given you some excellent advice. Be also advised that entering
dates should be taboo. Project's job is to calculate the dates for you
based on Durations and precedences. When tracking, you are right in
entering Actual Work, but Project cannot know what the Remaining Work is.
You must ask the resource to estimate the Remaining Work, whence Project
will do the recalculations for you.

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Marice]

Thank you, I'll take a look at these options.

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, Marice

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials