Enter Tasks

After you decide which tasks you want to include in your project, you can enter those tasks into your project plan. This is the biggest and most important step toward achieving your project goals.

Although you can create your task list in a number of Microsoft Project views, you might find it most convenient to enter your tasks in the Gantt Chart view. In the Gantt Chart view, you not only see your tasks as you enter them, but you also see additional task information that Microsoft Project provides in the view fields (which are represented by columns). Microsoft Project adds this information to the chart portion of the Gantt Chart view.

Even though Microsoft Project starts scheduling tasks as soon as you enter them, the project and task schedules are not accurate until the entire plan is built. For example, you can change task durations after you add each task or after you finish entering all tasks.

To enter a task in the Gantt Chart view

1. On the View Bar, click Gantt Chart .
2. In the Task Name field, type a task name.
   Use a verb and a noun to name tasks (for example, Pour concrete).
3. Click or press ENTER.

If you created a task list in another program and want to add it to your project plan, see Chapter 20, "Sharing Information with Other Programs."

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