Using the MS Project Step by Step $2019($or $2022$if you have that version$)$manual$,$ please submit the "Simple Track Actuals" Project file for the Practice Tasks at the end of Chapter $8.$

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The practice files for these tasks, SimpleTrackBaseline and SimpleTrackActuals, are located in the Project$2019$SBS$\backslash$Ch$08$ folder.

IMPORTANT If you are running Project Professional, Project Online Professional, or Project Online Premium, make sure that your Project desktop client is not connected to Project Web App and is instead set to Computer mode. For more information, see Appendix C$,$ "Collaborate: Project, SharePoint, and PWA."

Save a baseline of your plan

The scenario: At Lucerne Publishing, the new book launch plan is now fully developed. Actual work on the project will soon begin. You want to be able to compare the actual work and the current schedule with the original plan, so you first want to save a baseline. Open SimpleTrackBaseline and perform the following tasks:

$1.$ Save the baseline for the entire plan; use the default baseline settings.

$2.$ Switch to the Task Sheet view.

$3.$ Display the Variance table to see scheduled and baseline values, as Figure $8-9$ shows. Track a plan as scheduled

The scenario: Some time has passed since you saved the baseline in the new book launch plan. Work has been completed through the first week and a half, as planned. You need to account for the completed work in the plan. Open the SimpleTrackActuals plan and perform the following task:

$1.$ Use the options in the Update Project dialog box to record that work has been completed as scheduled through January $18,2023.$

Project records the completion percentage for the tasks that were scheduled to start by January $18.$ It displays that progress by drawing progress bars in the Gantt bars for those tasks as shown in Figure $8-10.$

FIGURE $8-10$ After you record progress through a specific date, Project displays the progress bars and, for completed tasks, the completion check marks in the Gantt Chart view. In the chart portion of the Gantt Chart view, the progress bar shows how much of each task has been completed. Because tasks $2,3,$ and $4$ have been completed, a check mark appears in the Indicators column for those tasks and the progress bars extend through the full length of those tasks' Gantt bars. Task $5$ is only partially completed.

Enter a task's completion percentage

The scenario: Work continues on the new book launch. You have additional progress to record in the plan as percent complete values. Continuing in the SimpleTrackActuals plan, perform the following tasks:

$1.$ Set the following tasks to $100$ percent complete:

$-5,$ Design and order marketing material

$-6,$ Planning complete!

$-8,$ Kickoff book launch meeting Project records the actual work for the tasks as scheduled and extends progress bars through the length of the Gantt bars as shown in Figure $8-11.$

FIGURE $8-11$ Recording $100$ percent complete is a quick checklist way of recording that a task was completed as scheduled, with no variance.

Because task $6$ is a milestone task with no duration, its symbol in the chart portion of the Gantt Chart view does not change $($you can see that tasks $5$ and $8$ did change$).$ However, the completion check marks for all three tasks appear in the Indicators column.

$2.$ Set task $9,$ Prepare book P$\backslash$&L statement, to $50$ percent complete and then point to its progress bar. You can see the task's ScreenTip in Figure $8-12.$