
When you create a new project, you first enter the project's start date. Read below in this article to learn more about manually versus automatically scheduled task scheduling. For example, tasks don’t move around as other tasks move.

Of course, there are going to be exceptions. To find the Project start date or to change it to another date, click Project, and then click Project Information. As tasks are added to the schedule and connected to other tasks, the start times of tasks will change, and the last task to finish determines the project’s finish date. When you add a new task to a schedule, it automatically is scheduled to start on the project’s start date. Yet more technical information about how Project schedules How do resource assignments drive the schedule? How do deadline dates affect the schedule? How does float (or slack) affect the schedule? How do manual and automatic scheduling affect the schedule? How does effort-driven scheduling affect the schedule?

How do constraints on tasks affect the schedule? How does the project start date affect the schedule?
