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Adding tasks to a baseline

Adding tasks to a baseline - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Adding tasks to a baseline

Every so often you need to edit a baseline after you save it, for example the stakeholders might approve some additional scope and you need to add that to the baseline, or you might need to change baseline values that weren't correct. You can resave parts of the baseline to see the new target values while still keeping track of any existing variants from the plan. Before you have actual values you can just overwrite the baseline. On a Project tab, click Set Baseline, choose Set Baseline, then in the Baseline box, choose the Baseline that you want to reset, in this case, I'll just reset this original baseline, then click OK. Because the Baselines already been saved you get a warning message, and it asks if you're really sure you want to overwrite the data. If there are any actual values that's what's you want do, so just click Yes. And now the new baseline saved. But if you have actual values, let's say you add tasks, or update a few revise tasks you want to keep the variances between…

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