See Whats Driving Project Finish Date. By default Project shows only one critical path the one that affects the projects finish date. To view the finish date of your project with Project Plan 365 you can use the Show project summary task option available in the Options dialog Advanced tab and look at the Finish date of the project summary task or you can use the Project Information option available under Project menu.
In the Start date or Finish date box enter the date that you want to schedule from. The start date of one task drives the finish date of another. Right now the format is mmddyyy in the Start And Finish columns for Project Center and the projects themselves but I would like dates in the format of the project.
For optimal scheduling flexibility we recommend that you allow Project to calculate the start and finish dates for tasks based on the durations and task dependencies that you enter.
The top sequence of tasks has no slack also called float and therefore drives the finish date of the project. Finally you can use the format tab to visualize the expected plan against the baseline. Use Project to generate a Gantt chart for your. Right now the format is mmddyyy in the Start And Finish columns for Project Center and the projects themselves but I would like dates in the format of the project.
