Microsoft KB Archive/61398

Limitations on Importing Files with Task Dates PSS ID Number: Q61398 Article last modified on 03-11-1992 PSS database name: W_WinPRoj

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Summary:

Microsoft Project calculates certain types of constraint dates, As Soon As Possible and As Late As Possible, when setting up a project. When importing a file (for example, from Excel) with dates that are associated with these types of constraints, the dates will be ignored and replaced with a date that is calculated by Project.

More Information:

Tasks that are set with As Soon As Possible or As Late As Possible constraints are scheduled according to their predecessor and successor relationships and slack time. The constraint type, As Soon As Possible, is the default constraint unless otherwise specified.

The other constraint types, Finish No Earlier Than, Finish No Later Than, Must Finish On, Must Start On, Start No Earlier Than, and Start No Later Than, require that you specify a date that controls the start or finish of the task. These dates are imported properly as long as the table for Microsoft Project is set up to match the exact layout of the file that is being imported.

Note: Planned (the original project start/finish) and actual (the actual start/finish of a task) dates are also imported properly as long as the table is set up to match the exact layout of the file that is being imported.

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Creating and Table and Microsoft and Project and Windows and Coincide and File and Imported

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