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Adjusting start and finish dates

Adjusting start and finish dates

From the course: Learning Microsoft Project for the Web (Planner Web App)

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Adjusting start and finish dates

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- [Instructor] Although there is a sequence of tasks, we might have some business restrictions that could alter the start or finish of a task, and we're going to illustrate that on 12 and 13. Now, what I recommend is you add the start and finish columns. Watch how the dates update automatically as soon as I provide a task occurring before the row I'm on. This is an extremely helpful feature. It's scheduling each task for me. However, sometimes that doesn't meet our needs. What if we cannot get started meeting with our community leader until a later date? This calendar pop-up allows you to make that correction, and you can pick the date you need. When you go back to that task and hover, the icon changes. And if you click on it, it will tell you you have a constraint, and you can remove that at any time if needed. Another situation we might have is, what if we have a finish restriction and maybe it allows us to have…

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