How Can I View Incomplete Tasks?
An Incomplete Task is where Percentage Completion is less than 100%. You can filter Incomplete Tasks from the View tab and the Filter dropdown.
How Can I View Critical Tasks?
Make sure you’re in Gantt Chart view and move to the Format tab (under Gantt Chart Tools). You can also view Slack by checking the Slack check box.
How do I Identify Late Tasks?
Select the Gantt Chart view and move to the Format tab (under Gantt Chart Tools). Click on the Late Tasks check box.
How Can I Schedule Tasks By the Hour Rather than By the Day?
Change the default duration to hours, by selecting the File tab, Options, Schedule category. Double click on the Timescale at the top of the Gantt Chart. Change the Timescale Units of the Gantt Chart with the Middle Tier showing days and the Bottom Tier showing hours.
Why Won’t Project 2010 Reschedule My Tasks?
If you are using Manual Scheduling, Project 2010 will not reschedule your tasks if you make changes to predecessor tasks.
How Can I Create a High Level View of My Project that I Can Show Non-Project People?
Use the Timeline View. Right click on your tasks and click on Add to Timeline.
Why Doesn’t Project 2010 Calculate the Duration of Summary Tasks?
If you are using Manual Scheduling, Project will calculate the duration of Summary Tasks (if you don’t enter duration yourself). If you enter your own duration, Project will no longer calculate this field for you.
Instead, Project gives you a roll-up bar under the summary bar which is the calculated duration. If you want Project to calculate the duration of Summary Tasks, make sure you set their Task Mode to Auto Scheduled.
How Can I View Slipping Tasks and Track Problems?
Make sure you have set a Baseline for your original schedule. In Gantt Chart View, select the Format Tab and click on the Baseline dropdown to display your Baseline schedule bars. You can also click on the Slippage icon to see by how much tasks have slipped from their baseline dates.
