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Moving tasks

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Tue, 2004-02-24 14:11
Andy Rowe
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Hi, bit of a novice I am afraid. I want to able to move a number of tasks forward / or back by say two weeks. I can only seem to do this one at a time. How can I move them all together? Thanks for reading this and I look forward to a response Andy
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Mon, 2004-03-01 04:52
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Thank you both...Brilliant....now sorted

Cheers
Andy
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Sun, 2004-02-29 07:47
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Agree with Paul. Make sure "small group are connected with logic and do not have constraints" This is the key.
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Wed, 2004-02-25 17:40
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If all the tasks in the small group are connected with logic and do not have constraints (and depending on your constraints option in the options form) changing the early start constraint date on the first task should move all the tasks.

There are too many options in Microsoft Project and it is difficult to predict what will happen in other people’s projects.

I suggest you display the indicators column and this will show you which activities have constraints.

Other wise you may have manual recalculation switched on and have to hit the F9 key.

Paul E Harris
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Wed, 2004-02-25 05:46
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Paul, many thanks for your response.

The tasks I want to move are a small group within a larger project. I have created links between them and constrained the first of them to start on a specific date. I still cant get them all to move as one....I need to mve them all by two weeks.

Hope that is clearer

Andy
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Tue, 2004-02-24 18:31
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Paul Harris
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Andy

People usually have tasks in Microsoft Project linked with relationships whereby moving the first task will move all the successor tasks. I am unsure from the info you have provided how you have scheduled your tasks. There are several ways of delaying tasks by two weeks:

1. You may change the project start date and this will move any unstarted tasks that are scheduled on the start date to the new start date.

2. Typing a date in the Task Start column will assign an early start constraint to the task. If you have a number of tasks that you wish to start on the same day you may use the Fill Down or Copy and Paste function to assign a constraint to a number of activities.

3. If you do not have relationships between tasks, put some in and assign a constraint to the fist task.

Paul E Harris
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Planning and Scheduling Book Publishers
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