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Add task duration - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Learning Microsoft Project
Add task duration
- [Instructor] Part of building your project schedule is telling Project how long you expect tasks to take. That is planned duration. When you create tasks, the initial duration value is one day question mark. The question mark shows that you haven't filled in your values yet. So let's start adding in some durations. Task to review design. Let's say that that's one day. So I'm going to type in 1d and press Enter. The duration no longer has a question mark, so it says that I've added in my planned duration. In addition, when I press Enter, it jumps to the next duration cell so I can add the duration there. In this case, task three's duration is five days, so I'm going to type 5d and press Enter. Over in the timescale, you can see that the taskbar now spans five work days. In addition, you can see that the finish date for that task has changed accordingly. Now we're going to go to the duration for task four, and…
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