Enter or Change a Project Start or Finish Date

When you open a new project file in Microsoft Project, you can enter your project’s start or finish date, but not both. It’s most common, and recommended, that you enter only your project’s start date and let Microsoft Project calculate the finish date after you have entered and scheduled tasks (see Chapter 10, "Evaluating Your Schedule and Analyzing Tradeoffs"). If your project must absolutely be finished by a certain date, then enter only the project’s finish date.

To change a project start or finish date

1. On the Project menu, click Project Information.
2. Enter a start or finish date.
   • To enter a start date, type the date on which you want to start your project in the Start date box.
   • To enter a finish date, click Project Finish Date in the Schedule from box, and then type a finish date from which to schedule your project in the Finish date box.

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