Slack Time Not Correct-Cannot Figure Out Why

[thebehm5]

My college class textbook has a diagram and it is set-up like the following.
Task F will not be shown to have 12 days of start-slack. Task F, dependent on
Task A in a finish-start relationship, could start as early as day 5, after
Task A is completed, or as late as day 17, to make sure that the task is
completed by day 20. Why won't MS-Project show 17 days of start-slack, or how
could this problem to eliminated so that MS-Project WILL show 17 days of
start-slack? Under the predecessors, the numbers represent A-F.

Task Duration Start Finish
Predecessors
A 5 days Mon 1/8/07 Fri 1/12/07
B 1 day Thu 1/11/07 Thu 1/11/07 1SS+3 days
C 2 days Thu 1/18/07 Fri 1/19/07 2FS+4 days
D 6 days Mon 1/22/07 Mon 1/29/07 1,3
E1 1 day Wed 1/24/07 Wed 1/24/07 4SS+2 days
E2 1 day Wed 1/31/07 Wed 1/31/07 5,4FF+2 days
F 3 days Wed 1/31/07 Fri 2/2/07 1,6FF+2 days

Task F only has predecessor TASK A, start-start, no lag time.
It also has Task E, Finish-finish, lag time of 2 days.

Can you tell me why the software shows no slack time, when it should show 12
days, and why it shows beginning on day 17 instead of an early start on day
#5?? Or, is there a way to fix this so as to show the proper slack time?

Thanks,
Bill Behm

 

[Mike Glen]

Haven't you already asked this?

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[thebehm5]

SOrt of. I did not have my set-up listed last time. Here it is and I wanted
to see if someone can tell me how to fix it.

Bill