Re: How can I get a progress line to show work ahead of schedule?

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While you may very well may have work done before it was scheduled to be done, you can't have a progress line that swings into the future unless you have a time machine. Sitting here today, there is no way for work that is scheduled for next Wednesday to already be done and still legitimately show it took place on its original schedule, on next Wednesday. Unfortunately Project lets you enter it that way because it doesn't really know what the current date actually is, but if you have done work early you should move it back to show when it really took place. Progress lines how actual progress they only go to the left of the current date line because any work that is completed will have to have been performed at sometime in the past, regardless of what the schedule called for. So to have an accurate picture of what's going on when, when you have done work earlier than planned, don't simply mark it as "X% Complete." Instead, display the tracking table and enter the actual start date when the work that has been done was first performed plus the amount of duration that has been worked so far.

HTH

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"Caren G" <CarenG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AEB6F162-B6A7-4940-9DD9-83B262E4DEF0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Within a project I have created a progress line but this line does not
connect to work ahead of schedule (e.g., progress line is set for the
11/01/07, but I have work which is 75% complete not due to commence until the
22/01/07 - the progress line does not connect to the item on the 22nd but
only to tasks before the 11th), is it possible to adjust the progress line to
connect to work ahead of schedule or does project just not do this.

Thanks in advance for any help


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