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Reviewing the critical path

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Reviewing the critical path

The Critical Path is the longest link sequence of tasks in a project and runs from the start of the project to the finish. That means changes to start and finish dates for tasks on the Critical Path also change the Project Finish Date. As you plan and manage projects you will look at the Critical Path to see where you can shorten the schedule or to watch for delays that threatened to delay the entire project. Fortunately, Project makes it easy to keep an eye on the Critical Path. Here in the Gantt Chart view it's really easy to turn critical tasks on and off. Just go to Format tab and you can see here the Critical Tasks checkbox is turned on. That's why you see critical tasks in red and noncritical tasks in blue. If you turn on the checkbox off everything changes to blue and you can't see the Critical Tasks easily. So turn the checkbox on and now you can see red for Critical Tasks and blue for Noncritical. The thing about Critical Tasks is that they don't have any slack. If a Critical…

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