Office Project

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your question.

First save your baseline (Tools > Tracking > Save Baseline). This enables Project to keep track of the start, finish, duration cost and any work associated with each task.

Now change when your project starts. You have two ways of doing this that produce slightly different results:

Project > Project information moves the start date. Any slack (float) in your project is likely to be consumed by the change in start date. Critical tasks affected will delay your finish date - though not necessarily by the same amount as the delay to your start date as slack may have absorbed part of the delay.

Alternatively if you would like to pick up your entire project and move it preserving any slack in your plan give this a try:
From the view menu choose toolbars > analysis
Click on the adjust dates button and enter your new start date. Any fixed dates in your plan change to preserve slack in your plan.

I hope this helps - do let us know if you need any further information.

Andrew