Microsoft Project
Project basics exercise
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Exercise: Learn To Drive - Recurring Tasks, With Linking and Problem

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-281.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Open the file LearnToDrive.mpp, located in the folder shown above.
3)	Insert a Recurring Task above Theory test with the following settings: Name:  Lessons Duration:  1 day Recurrence:  Weekly Day:  Monday Range:  End after 20 occurrences
4)	Expand the Lessons task so that you can see all the individual lessons.
5)	Create the following links: Lessons => Practical exam Apply for provisional licence => Lessons
6)	Notice the problem that occurs when you create the second link.
To solve this problem you could alter the start date of the lessons task in the Task Information dialog box.  Note that this would set a constraint and could cause more problems later on!
7)	Save the changes to the file and close it down.

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