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Find tasks with invalid dates

Find tasks with invalid dates

- [Bonnie] Hi, Bonnie Biafore here with another project tip. Invalid dates are no-nos in projects that are underway. Things like completed work that are recorded on future days or planned work that's scheduled in the past. In this tip, you'll see how to tell Project to reschedule tasks so completed work is in the past and remaining work is in the future. We're going to start by going to the Project tab. In the Status section, you can see that the Status Date is April 23. Well we're going to head to task 17, so I'm going to select that task and then go to the Task tab, and at the right end of the ribbon, click Scroll to Task. Well here we've got April 23, the Status Date. The problem is, the completed task bar is showing as going past the Status Date. So some of the completed work is recorded in the future. Well that just isn't going to happen. So we need a way to get that completed work back into the past where it belongs. We're also going to look at task 23 to Remove siding. I'm…

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