From the course: Microsoft Project Step by Step: Planning for Successful Project Management
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Track a plan as scheduled - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Project Step by Step: Planning for Successful Project Management
Track a plan as scheduled
Keep your plan up to date with shortcuts to track on time tasks. And I hope you have lots of on time tasks. As a reminder, our plan has the baseline set and this is our today line. Let me track an item on track. And it's simply click this button mark on track. You'll see how easy this works. But Project is smart enough to know that even if there is a task that is not completed or should not be complete based on the current date, it will mark it only through the day. 5:00 PM. And let's see how that works. So it knows the end of today this task is completed, but all remaining future work is not done. Now, what if you had 5,000 lines in your plan? You probably don't want to go through and figure out which ones you should update. That button worked great task by task, but let's do the entire project and update it as on track. In that instance, go to the Project tab, Update Project, and all you have to do is set the date you want to update it through. I'll default to the current date. If…
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