Microsoft Project Setting a Project Start Date

Setting the Start Date of a Project plan. 

To start a project plan you need to provide some basic information.  This is done by setting the project information, and can be accessed by:

Menu, Project, Project Information.



The items to be considered on this screen are:

1. The start or end date of the project.  Enter the date that you will hopefully working from or towards.  Only one date can be set, the other is calculated from all the other information that you provide.

2. Schedule from.  Are you planning from a start date or towards an end date.  The option selected here is the one controls whether you can enter a start or end date.

3. Calendar.  What calendar is the Project going to be calculated on.  There are three default calendars, standard, nightshift and 24 hours.  The calendar selected here does not have to be used for the whole project plan, but it should be the one that is used the most.  Certain resources and / particular tasks can be done to other calendars.  The calendar values can be changed as necessary.