Change Baseline Information for One or More Tasks

Despite your best efforts and all the advice in this book, it might still turn out that your baseline doesn’t reflect project reality accurately enough to remain an effective tracking tool. Perhaps some of your task estimates were knocked off target because of unpredictable factors. Or, upper management decided to move up the project finish date, which means you may need to shrink task durations. At such times, you’ll need to change the baseline information for tasks.

To change baseline information for one or more tasks

1. On the View Bar, click Gantt Chart or any other task view.
2. In the Task Name field, select the tasks whose baseline information you want to change.
3. On the Tools menu, point to Tracking, and then click Save Baseline.
4. Click Save baseline, and then click Selected tasks.
   When you click Selected tasks, Microsoft Project updates the baseline data for the tasks you selected.

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