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Creating a manual task

Creating a manual task - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Creating a manual task

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Creating a Manually Scheduled task is fairly straightforward. Set the Task mode to Manually Scheduled, name the task and fill in the information you have. Task bars for Manually Scheduled tasks change their appearance to indicate which values you've entered. In this project, it's set up so that new tasks are set as manually scheduled. So all we have to do is create a new task. In this case, I'm going to name it Pack office. Now you can see I've got a Task mode indicator with a pushpin so it's manually scheduled and the question mark says, there is information that you still have to fill in. Let's say, it starts on July 15, so I type that date in and now you can see the end cap is in the timescale. Well let's say your colleague Marco is going to estimate the duration so you can write yourself a note, put that in the Duration field. Well, the taskbar doesn't change, because you've just written yourself a note. But few days later when Marco gets back to you and says, that it's going to…

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