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Moving a Project Forward a Year in 98 2

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Genimuse

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May 15, 2003
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Is there a way to shift a whole, complex project forward one year in Project 98? It would sure save us a bunch of time.

Thanks in advance.
 
Project menu, Project Information, Project Start Date.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
 
Unfortunately this doesn't actually shift all the tasks forward... it complains that there are tasks prior to the start date and leaves everything where it is.

Any thoughts on how to shift all the tasks forward a year without doing them one-by-one?
 
Well, if you have tasks that don't have any dependencies, those will need to be manually moved to the start date.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
 
P98:

Tools | Macro | Macros... and run the macro "Adjust_Dates".

It goes without saying (but I will say it anyway): Back up the plan before "playing" with it.

I've never used the macro so I don't know what happens when (1) Actuals have already been recorded against the original schedule; (2) moving tasks schedules them when resources have scheduled vacations; or (3) moving tasks schedules them when various dates (such as Statutory Holidays) have been scheduled.
 
Thanks, PDQ, that worked perfectly.

We did have to remove all of the actuals first, but that proved quicker than trying to adjust all the dates forward a year by hand.
 
Ditto - thanks for the learning experience.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
 
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