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Update parts of a baseline

Update parts of a baseline

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Update parts of a baseline

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- [Bonnie] Hi, I'm Bonnie Biafore with another project tip. Today, I'll show you how to selectively update tasks in a baseline. Perhaps for tasks added for a change request, or to update only tasks without actuals. So here I have a project displayed in Gantt chart view, and let's say that I want to update just a few of the tasks in this schedule. For example, you can see that I have tasks that are already complete, and I definitely don't want to update those, but let's look at tasks 21 through 25. Let's say that those were added to this schedule because of a change request. So I'm gonna select all of those by dragging down their task ID cells. Now that I have these tasks selected, I can update the baseline only for these tasks. The way to do that is to go to the Project tab and then go to the schedule section and click Set Baseline. On the dropdown menu, choose Set baseline and that opens up the Set Baseline dialog box. We already have the baseline saved on an earlier day, so ewe want…

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