Re: Baseline vs actual schedule and start/finish dates

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Hi Lili,

The purpose of a baseline is to serve as a comparison basis to see by how
much the actual situation deviates from the original one.
There is no point having a baseline if it "must" match the Actuals.
Actuals are dictated by reality, so they should not (always) be a copy of
the original plan!
HTH

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I have establishd a basesline schedule and have been maintaining the
schedule
using actual start and actual finish columns. I have many linked tasks.
Project automatically updates (i.e. projects the actual start/finish date)
as I update the actual start and finish columns because the activities are
linked. However, the durations of these projected durations don't match
the
baseline durations. Essentially, the projected actual start and finish
dates
don't represent how the schedule has changed as a result of the real
actual
start and finish dates.

My project runs 7 days/week, 12 hours/day. At first I thought the
durations
were "skipping" weekends but I selected all tasks and resources and
assigned
them all to the custom calendar with no change to the projected actual
durations.

How can I make the "actual" projected durations match the baseline
durations?



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