The Gantt Chart view will likely be your most used view for showing the critical path. Choose View > Gantt Chart. Choose Format, and then select the Critical Tasks check box. Tasks on the critical path now have red Gantt bars. You can see the critical path in any task view by highlighting it. On the View tab, pick a view from the Task Views group. Staying on the View tab, select Critical from the Highlight list. To see only the tasks on the critical path, choose the Filter arrow, then pick Critical. Tip: In a Network Diagram, tasks on the critical path automatically show up in red. No highlighting is needed. This video demonstrates how to display the critical path in your project, in both
the Gantt Chart view and other views.
View the critical path in a master projectWhen you’re managing a master project, whole subprojects can be on the critical path. You can see if this is true by telling Project to treat the subprojects like they are summary tasks.
Tip: This setting does not affect other projects. That is, it only applies to the master project you’re working on. Change what tasks show up on the critical pathTypically, critical tasks have no slack. But you can tell Project to include tasks with one or more days of slack on the critical path so you can see potential problems coming from farther away.
Top of Page Show multiple critical pathsYou can set up your project schedule to display as many critical paths as you need to keep tabs on your project.
By default, Project shows only one critical path, the one that affects the project’s finish date. But you might need to see more than one for a couple reasons:
Project management tip: When viewing multiple critical paths, don’t forget that there's still only one main critical path. If it falls behind schedule, the whole project falls behind schedule. Try these tips to make better use of multiple critical paths in a project once you’ve set them up.
More about critical path analysisIf you have saved a baseline for your project, the critical path can show you if your project will finish on time and where the danger points are. To get the most out of critical path analysis:
Tip: To change the sensitivity of critical tasks, choose File > Options > Advanced. In the Tasks are critical if slack is less than or equal to list, enter the number of days under which a task will be considered critical. When you display the project's critical path, Project shows only a single, overall critical path, which is the only critical path that controls the project's finish date. However, you can set up your plan so that you can also see an additional critical path for each independent network or each series of tasks. You might find this useful for keeping track of each of the subprojects within a master project, or of each phase or milestone of a project that is divided into multiple phases. By knowing and tracking the critical path for your project, as well as the resources that are assigned to each critical task, you can identify the tasks that can affect your project's finish date and thus discover whether your project will finish on schedule. Learn more by reading Manage your project's critical path. Top of Page These instructions are specific to Project 2007. Display the critical path for your projectTo verify that adjustments that you make to the project plan don't adversely affect the critical path, you can review the critical path and critical tasks in any of several ways. Note: By default, Project 2007 does not display a project's critical path.
Change which tasks are defined as criticalIn Project 2007, a critical task has zero days of slack (float). However, you can change this default value and define a task as critical that has, for example, one or two days of slack.
To learn how to find a task's slack, see Show slack in your project. For instructions about changing a task's slack, see Set lead or lag time (float) between tasks. Top of Page More about critical path analysisIf you have saved a baseline for your project, the critical path can show you if your project will finish on time and where the danger points are. To get the most out of critical path analysis:
Tip: To change the sensitivity of critical tasks, on the Tools menu, choose Options. On the Calculation tab, under Tasks are critical if slack is less than or equal to, specify the number of days under which a task will be considered critical. When you display the project's critical path, Project 2007 shows only a single, overall critical path, which is the only critical path that controls the project's finish date. However, you can set up your plan so that you can also see an additional critical path for each independent network or each series of tasks. You might find this useful for keeping track of each of the subprojects within a master project, or of each phase or milestone of a project that is divided into multiple phases. By knowing and tracking the critical path for your project, as well as the resources that are assigned to each critical task, you can identify the tasks that can affect your project's finish date and thus discover whether your project will finish on schedule. Learn more by reading Manage your project's critical path. Top of Page In Project for the web, you can view the critical path by using a filter.
When Show Critical Path is on, you'll see the critical path for your project highlighted red in the timeline.
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