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Adding tasks to a baseline

Adding tasks to a baseline

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Adding tasks to a baseline

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- 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 re-save parts of a 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 the 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 baseline's already been saved, you get a warning message, and it asks if you're really sure you want to overwrite the data. If there aren't any actual values, that's what you want to do, so just click yes. Now the new baseline is saved. If you have actual values, let's say you add tasks, or update a few revised tasks, you want to keep the…

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