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Viewing project schedule status

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Viewing project schedule status

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Reviewing Project status on a regular schedule is the best way to get an early warning of problems that are brewing. There are several ways to view your Project status. A high-level view is a good place to start. One way to get a high-level view of your Project is with the Project summary task. To see it, go to the Format tab and turn on the Project Summary Task checkbox. Now you see over in the table there's a new row at the top of the table. It has a special task ID of 0 and that represents the Project summary task. You can see here it has project-wide values for the project. The complete duration, the project start and finish date, the overall percent complete for the entire project, its cost and work. You can apply different tables to see other fields about the project. For example, I go to the View tab, click the Tables button, and choose Cost and now I can see the current total scheduled cost for the project, the baseline cost and the cost variance. In this case the cost…

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