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Creating an autoscheduled task - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Project 2013 Essential Training
Creating an autoscheduled task
Creating an Auto Scheduled task is simple. You set the task mode if necessary, name the task and fill in a few values. So let's create a new task in this schedule. Click a blank cell, type the task name, Move to new office. Well let's set up as Manually Scheduled, so I click the Task mode cell, click the down arrow and choose Auto Scheduled. You can see the easy indicator changes. Now we've got a task bar in the timescale. You might wonder how Project figures out where to put the task in the timescale. Well, this task is actually a sub task under the walk-through and repair summary task, so it uses the start date of the summary task. You'll also notice that the Duration cell is filled in with one day with a question mark. Well that's Project's way of telling you that it put an estimated duration and you need to put in your estimate for how long the task is going to take. So just click the cell, type in your estimated duration and press Enter and you can see that the question mark goes…
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Understanding manual and auto scheduling4m 36s
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Creating a manual task2m 31s
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Creating an autoscheduled task1m 57s
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Switching between manual and automatic scheduling2m 12s
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Creating a milestone task1m 25s
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Creating a recurring task4m 18s
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Copying tasks from another program1m 47s
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Creating a summary task4m 8s
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Displaying summary tasks2m 30s
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Organizing tasks in a task list4m 59s
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Working with work breakdown structure (WBS) codes6m 56s
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