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Save and clear a baseline

Save and clear a baseline

- [Instructor] When management approves your project plan and schedule, the next step is to save the baseline, and project. so you have a record of the schedule at that point in time. You can save additional baselines to track major changes to your project, or you can clear a baseline if you don't need it anymore. Now, this schedule has been cleaned up a little bit to prepare it for saving the baseline. I added an office admin resource and reassigned tasks to eliminate resource over allocations. So we're ready to set our first baseline. To do that, you go to the project tab. Then in the schedule section, click set baseline. On the dropdown menu, click set baseline. That opens up the set baseline dialogue box. For your first baseline, everything is set the way you want it. The option set baseline is selected. We've got several baselines to choose from but we're going to use the one called baseline, and we want to baseline the entire project. So all you have to do is click okay. Now…

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