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Live Webinar April 9th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free

In the first of the four-part “Digging Deeper” series of MPUG webinars, the “Learning More about Inactivating Tasks and Inserting a Repeatable Block of Tasks” presentation will help you to gain in-depth knowledge about the Inactivate Task feature available in the Professional version of Microsoft Project 2010.

In addition, Dale will show you how to avoid using copy and paste in projects stored in Project Server 2010, and to avoid the risk project corruption by using a repeatable block of tasks instead.

This presentation will include the following topics:

  • Understanding The Purpose Of The Inactivate Task Feature In Microsoft Project Professional 2010
  • Understanding the Relationship Between a Baseline and Inactive Tasks
  • How Does Microsoft Project 2010 Calculate Variance for Inactive Tasks?
  • Understanding the Behavior of Inactive Tasks and Their Summary Tasks
  • Using the Proper Technique to Inactivate a Summary Section
  • When Should You NOT Inactivate an Unnecessary Task?
  • Deleting Unnecessary Inactive Tasks
  • Copying and Pasting Tasks from a Local Staging File
  • Inserting A Repeatable Block Of Tasks From A Custom Task Library
  • Creating a Custom Task Library

Presenter: Dale Howard, (LinkedIn profile) MS Project MVP (2004), MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP, MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP Dale manages educational services for MSProjectExperts. Dale is an enterprise project management trainer/consultant with more than 12 years of training experience, Dale volunteers many hours each week answering user questions in the various Project news groups in the Microsoft Communities.

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