Project 2016 Intermediate

Lesson - Customizing Project Information

Project 2016

E XERCISE

C USTOMIZING P ROJECT I NFORMATION

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Task

Customize project information.

1. Open Rooms11 . 2. Switch to the Gantt Chart view, if necessary.

3. Change the duration of 2 Plan Approval task to 5 days (estimated). Notice that the duration 5 days? appears in the Duration field for this task. Ignore the smart tag. 4. Open the Options dialog box. 5. Click the Display option and check the Entry bar. 6. On the Schedule page, change the settings so that tasks with estimated durations are not displayed. Close the Options dialog box. 7. View the duration of the 2 Plan Approval task to see that the question mark (?), indicating the duration is estimated, no longer appears. 8. Open the Options dialog box again and change the scheduling settings so that tasks with estimated durations are displayed. 9. On the Save page, enable Auto Save and set it to save files every one minute, without prompting you to save the changes. Close the dialog box. 10. Change the duration of the 2 Plan Approval task to 6 days . Then, wait about a minute and view the status bar to see that a “ Saving... ” message briefly appears. 11. Open the Options dialog box again and disable Auto Save. 12. Apply the Entry table to the Gantt Chart view and then drag the split bar to the left to display the Gantt bars. 13. Draw a text box (approximately 1/2 inch high and 2 inches wide) to the left of the 9 Paint Doors task bar. Enter the text “The Paint Doors task was delayed due to a lack of resources.” 14. Resize the text box as necessary to display all the text it contains. 15. Select the text box and delete it. 16. Close the file without saving the changes.

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