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In this module I'll show you yet another way that you can use the project views to record and track actual information about the project in terms of actual work values and actual remaining work values for a task or for the project. Well in this one here you can see I've configured this task that we've been dealing with here writing script and I've configured it, I just opened up the task dialog box and set the percent complete to 50, so you see the progress bar and as you see it'll go across none working days. But we got 3 days down and 3 days to go on this. But there are other ways that you can manually enter this information as well, it all comes down to manipulating the views and the information that is given to you by Project 2007. So what we'll do here, is we'll switch our view first of all to the task usage sheet and here as you can see we can look at the task, write script, we can see whose assigned to that task and then by scrolling to the task we can see what work has been done on it or what work at least has been scheduled to be done on that task. So 8 hours has been scheduled and the director is scheduled for all 8 hours of that time. Well how much work has already been done? That's not reflected here but what you can do to show that information, couple of things actually, one if that I'm going to change the table that is being used so on the view menu I'm going to go down to table usage, I'm going to change this to table work. So now we have some more fields that the view is focused on so we have the work that is to be done, the baseline and the variance in the actual and so on. So again you see that now I have 24 hours of actual work that has been done on this, but you don't see it reflected over here in the right hand side of this paned view. So what you can do is you can use the format menu and go down to the detail selection, so from there, click on, the one that says actual work. And that adds more details as you can see here, so there are the work values and the actual work values for this task as its being brought towards completion. So as we might expect there's this first day, second day, third day and in the work on the subsequent days hasn't been done yet. The actual work has not been done on this task, if you want to, you can enter in information about the task itself using this view. This task usage view with the details of actual work being shown, so both the work and actual work are side by side, just gives you more information, but this to can be a way to update information about the project in terms of how its being tracked toward completion. Notice also finally that you may have seen this in other modules, that anytime we make a change in one of our views, typically the most recently changed items are highlighted by project. So just a quick way to know if we've made a change where has that change been done. So if you want to, you can update your working hours there as well and since we've entered in 32 hours we should see over here in the spreadsheet that we've entered in 6 hours manually there and now that we've entered in another two hours of actual work here it puts it on the next day. So all these things compliment each other, again, I've mentioned this a couple of times, getting to what you want to do in project 2007. Often times it just comes down to knowing which views and which details to apply to your project.