Please help with projected time and actual time

[steveho]

I am very weak with MS Project and only use it to track the development schedule of multi-family apartments. When a new job starts, I schedule out the entire process from start to finish. my question is how do I setup tasks to hold the original, estimated date but also show the actual start & finish dates?

For example; I have a task that was setup from 9/24/07 to 9/28/07 (5 days). That task has run longer and will now finish on 10/2/07. I do not want the bar to move past the 28th but I would like to have a line (like the % complete line) show that the task actually finished on 10/2/07.

I hope that makes sense and thanks for your help!

 

[johnherman]

Baseline the project. Also, you can have separate fields for Start Date and Actual Start, and same for finish.

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