Microsoft Project
Project basics exercise
Relatively easy

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Exercise: Weekly Meetings - Recurring Tasks, Not Linked

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-280.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Open the file Product Launch.mpp, located in the folder shown above.
3) Insert a recurring task underneath New Product Launch with the following settings:
  • Name:  Weekly meeting
  • Duration:  1 hour
  • Recurrence:  Weekly
  • Day:  Monday
  • Range:  From the start to the end of the project
Training exercise hint The dates for the range of recurrence should be calculated automatically for the duration of the project, so you should not have to change them.
4) Expand the Weekly meeting task to display the individual meetings by clicking on the plus symbol to the left of it.
Exercise screen-shot 2244 Click on the plus symbol to show the individual meetings
5) Close the file, saving the changes.

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