Microsoft Software
Tasks - other topics exercise
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Exercise: New IT system - Task Calendars

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-933.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Open the file found in the folder shown above.
3) Add in a weekly meeting to run throughout the project with the following settings:
  • Name:            Breakfast Meeting
  • Duration:        1 hour
  • Recurrence:    Weekly
  • Day:               Monday
  • Range:            08/09/08 at 07:00 to end of the project
  • Calendar:        24 hour
Training exercise hint You can be specific about the start times of a meeting by adding the time, in the 24hr format, to the start box once the date has been selected.
4) Assign the following resources to the new Breakfast Meeting tasks:
  • IT Manager
  • Project Manager
5) Review the details of the 'Breakfast Meeting', is it still happening at 7am?
Training exercise hint To see the start and finish times of a task you will need to change the date format via Tools => Options... => View tab. Note this will affect all project plans until you change the format back.
6) Amend the 'Breakfast Meeting' task so that it can happen at the correct time, as the resources will attend the meeting outside of their normal working hours.
7) Your final entry table should look similar to the below:
Exercise screen-shot 2156 Adding the time will affect all project files until it is changed again.
8) Save your updated file as New system ready to go and close it down.

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