You might need to schedule part of a project from a specific finish date to finish it by a deadline, for example. After watching this video, you will be able to set up tasks in Microsoft Project to schedule a section of a project to finish by a specific date.
- [Instructor] Hi, I'm Bonnie Biafore. … Suppose you need to schedule part of a project … to finish by a specific date, … and you want to find out when that part of the project … needs to start. … In this tip, we'll schedule a sequence of tasks … to finish by a specific date. … Now if you go to the Project tab … and click Project Information, … you know that there's a Schedule from box, … and it has two choices. … You can schedule from the Project Start Date … or from the Project Finish Date. … The thing is, this schedules the entire project … by the finish date, and that's not what we want. … So we're actually going to keep it set to Project Start Date. … The tasks that we want to change are the training tasks. … You can see by looking at the schedule … that the task for Deliver Training … is scheduled for September 23rd. … But all of the tasks that lead up to the class, … there's a huge gap between that work and the class itself, … and we don't want that gap. … We want to work on the training …
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3/30/2021Released
1/9/2018Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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