Microsoft KB Archive/195524

= PRJ: Milestone Task Has Incorrect Finish =

Article ID: 195524

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Project 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q195524



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project, a task marked as a milestone or a task with zero duration may have an incorrect finish date.

NOTE: This behavior may also affect Summary tasks' finish dates and the scheduling of successors of that task.



CAUSE
This behavior may occur when you do the following:


 * In the Gantt Chart, you click the blank region to the left of a milestone, and drag left in order to create a task on the same row as the milestone.

This behavior occurs with the following types of tasks:


 * Tasks with a duration of 0 (zero) days.
 * Tasks marked as a milestone.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, use the appropriate method for your situation.

Method 1: If the duration of the milestone is 0 days, increase the duration of the milestone to 1d. Then, reedit the milestone's duration back to 0d.

Method 2: If the duration of the milestone is greater than 0 days, reduce the duration to the correct value.



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: prj2000

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB195524

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.