Marking tasks as completed is an important part of keeping up with progress during a project. More than likelyProject Managers are not on job sites 24 hours a dayseven days a week. Thusthe Project Manager may update the Project fileor someone else mightand everyone has different ideas about what is easier to dowhen it comes to software.
In Projectthere are a number of different ways to mark tasks as completeso we are going to list three in this tip.
1:The easiest way to mark a task is to use 100% commandwhich is located on the Task tabin the Schedule group.
Before clicking the commandensure you have the correct task selected. Click the 0% commandif you were on the wrong task.
2: Double-clicking on a task will open a dialog box for Task Information. In this dialog boxunder the General tabtyping 100% in the Percent Complete fieldthen clicking OKwill mark a task as complete.
The Task Information dialog box gives you a lot of information about the task. As a side noteit is worth becoming familiar with the different areas of this dialog box.
3: Using the Update Project dialog box will allow the user to update multiple tasks at once. To use this dialog boxselect the Project tabgo to the Status groupand select the Update Project command.
In this dialog boxselecting a date and clicking OK will mark all tasksprior to and including that dateas complete.
There are more ways to mark tasks complete that take more steps to find. These three steps are the easiest to findas well as to explain to others who might be updating information in a Project file.

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