Microsoft KB Archive/245948

= Duration and percent complete change when you change percent complete =

Article ID: 245948

Article Last Modified on 1/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
 * Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007
 * Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003
 * Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003
 * Microsoft Project 2002 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Project 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Project 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q245948



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project, when you change the percent complete of a task, you may see one or more of the following symptoms:
 * The duration of the task may change.
 * The percent complete may change to a different value than what you originally changed it to.



CAUSE
This behavior may occur when the following conditions are true:
 * You reduce or increase the percent complete on a task that has a percent complete greater than zero.
 * The task has actual overtime work assigned to it.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, adjust the duration and the percent complete to the correct values.

To prevent this behavior from occurring in the future, make the task a fixed duration task type before you change the percent complete of the task. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Select the task for which you want to change the percent complete.
 * 2) On the Project menu, click Task Information.
 * 3) On the Advanced tab, in the Task type list, click Fixed Duration.
 * 4) Click OK.
 * 5) Change the percent complete for the task.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: PRJ2002 PRJ2003 PRJ PRJ2007 PRJ2000 %Complete % Complete %Comp. % Comp.

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB245948

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