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How can I do Change Request on Microsoft Project?
TL;DR
Microsoft Project is for project planning. It is not a replacement for other documents and processes. There is no such thing as an "MS Project Change Request."
Handling Change Requests
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How to show how late a task is in MS-Project 2013?
Firstly you need to Baseline your plan at the start of the project, when all the planning has been done and you have a plan you are happy with.
Then add the Column 'Finish Variance' to your view.
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Drop-down menus in MS Project 2013 disappeared
To do this with the menus do this.
View >> Filter >> Display AutoFilter .... (shorthand for below)
Click on the View tab.
Then look for the Filter drop down. It's about in the middle and has a ...
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How to edit groups of tasks in Microsoft project?
I showed the "Type" column, changed the first entry to "Fixed Duration", then dragged that value down through the rest of the rows, and it worked.
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3: click in the "Fixed ...
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How to add dynamic date footer to project print-out?
From here:
In the File tab, click Print, then click Page Setup.
On the Header, Footer, or Legend tab, click the Left, Center, or Right tab.
Now choose the date icon and the field will auto-fill and ...
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How to import Actual Work to MS Project 2013 from CSV
You should use import map in import wizard to achieve this. For more details you can refer to the following article
6 Practical Scenarios Where Excel Import is Useful - http://www.mpug.com/articles/6-...
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How to assign multiple resources to a in MS Project and making them work different hours over the same duration
An approach that works for me.
Create the 11 day duration task and, as you noted, set it as Fixed Duration.
Split the screen (right click in the Gantt chart area and choose Show Split) to show the ...
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How to assign multiple resources to a in MS Project and making them work different hours over the same duration
MS-Project works from a task-centric model, rather than a resource-centric model.
That is to say, MS-Project works from the position that tasks require an intrinsic amount of work to complete, ...
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Is there a way to links tasks that have overlapped dates?
Link the tasks as Finish-to-Finish instead of the default Finish-to-Start. Change the Predecessor field to say 2FF.
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Plan a task multiple times
MS-Project does not have the functionality you require, unfortunately.
Nor are they the same tasks just because they deliver the same logical outcomes (tested something) using the same logical ...
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Working (part of) an MS Project schedule backwards
What you have set up should work under most circumstances. My guess is that you have a later task linked to Task 50 through successors that has a Must Finish On date. Try changing the MFO date(s) to ...
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MS Project: Few basis questions on tasks management
I know of no best practise in respect of this (doesn't mean it doesn't exist!), but as far as I am concerned I mix and match depending on my needs. If the task is 2 hours long I put in 2h rather than ...
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How can I display buffers in MS Project?
Displaying the slack for the task (as suggested by Polymath) is a great method. You can even display it on the Gantt chart, if that helps tell your story visually.
Your final sentence tells me that ...
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MS Project 2013: Can I avoid MSP auto-changing my assignment units to less than 100%?
The screen shot does not show the field names, but it appears that you have a task Duration of 1 day (e.g. 8 hours), but Work set to 4 hrs (e.g. half a day). In order for resources to only work 4 ...
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Changing default time from 0.88 days to 1 day
This is a classic mismatch between the default "Hours in a working day", which you probably have left at the default of 8, and actual working hours which you have probably set in your calendar to be 7....
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Relationship between Work, Duration and Units in Microsoft Project 2013
Firstly you should understand the difference between "effort" & "duration". You can read this article - http://www.pmbypm.com/difference-project-effort-and-duration/
Let's talk about 3 different ...
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How can I do Change Request on Microsoft Project?
As Fraber indicated, typically I've seen CRs as their own "Phase" in the project plan. As they arise, a task is added to that phase, resources assigned, scheduled out, etc. This way they are clearly ...
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How can I do Change Request on Microsoft Project?
And to follow on what CodeGnome wrote, once you determine what needs to change within your schedule, this may not qualify for a rebaseline. In other words, you change your schedule but you are still ...
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PWA's Project Center Timeline Not Adding Tasks or Projects After Editing Webpart
I was disappointed with PWA's timeline functionality because it wouldn't match my project's timeline. Some callout tasks would be misplaced and overlap each other in PWA while everything looked good ...
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MS Project 2013 - Resource Overallocations during specific time period with 100% Availability
Conceptually, this is automatic in MSP. You don't need to do anything special - just configure it as you have described, and it should work exactly as you want.
HOWEVER, the real issue is that your ...
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Creating an MS Project task with fixed duration and work, but variable resource loading
Create the support task in Manual Scheduling mode
Without doing anything else, assign your support resource to the task at 10% loading. If you don't do this before the next step then it won't work
Go ...
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Adding unnumbered task in MS Project 2013
If you have generated a WBS in the WBS field of MS Project, all tasks/lines will be numbered. If I need to get around this by not adding tasks to the overall project WBS, then I have a section at the ...
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Adding unnumbered task in MS Project 2013
I'm afraid the WBS or Outline numbers will automatically number the task. You can use a spare text field (text1) to set up your own WBS codes and simply skip adding one to the task in question.
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Using ms-project from onedrive
No sorry. The choices in the "new" are driven by the online versions of Word, Excel, PPT, and OneNote. Do you have project pro for office 365 added to your Office 365 subscription?
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How can I perform a comparison between baseline and actual hours worked?
Assuming you have a baseline: Make sure the Project summary task is displayed, go to the Task Usage view and add the Cumulative Work and Baseline Cumulative Work field to the timescaled portion of ...
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How can I perform a comparison between baseline and actual hours worked?
Update the status date to the appropriate date. Open up the "Work Variance" column. Read the value at whatever level of the schedule you are analyzing.
This assumes you loaded planning values for ...
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Is there a way to use your customized fields in reports created in MS project 2013?
More Custom Fields are available in 2016 but you still can't use Custom Text Fields in a Chart, but you can use Custom Numbers. Don't understand why you can have number but not text.
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So lost with Resources in MS Project 2013
In short, no. Project cannot and will not assign resources automatically. As I noted here you can use the Assign resources dialog to view resources who are available. You can also use the Resource ...
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How to import Actual Work to MS Project 2013 from CSV
Project doesn't know what measure you are using for the actual work. Try the import with 10h in the actual work field. Also, generally the project name is in line zero - or the Project Summary Task. ...
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How to add special, non-continuous dates to one task?
Just add a task first, and then split it later.
Or, follow as here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Split-a-task-20c8581b-6266-45e3-af54-cc7c3b10deca
The special frozen zone that you ...
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