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OpenProj- How to change start date

OpenProj- How to change start date

OpenProj- How to change start date

(OP)
How do you change the start date on a project in the program OpenProj?

My department is supposed to start using OpenProj for our projects. My boss made a template that shows the standard tasks and time durations for our projects.

On the template, he put the start date for the entire project as 1/3/11, since it's just a template for us to work from. I want to change the date back to 3/1/10, since that's when my project started, but I can't figure out how to do that. If I double click the start date, then the "Task Information - 1" box comes up, I can change the date on the little calendar back to March 1, 2010, then a little box comes up and says "May this task start before the project start?" and I click "OK", and then the date immediately goes back to 1/3/11.

I also went to Project drop down menu, chose Projects, and changed the date there. It let me change the date to 3/1/10 there, but that didn't seem to affect anything else.

So, does anyone know how to change the start date in OpenProj? Thanks for your help.

RE: OpenProj- How to change start date

(OP)
The example that my boss made is a Gantt chart, showing when the project tasks start and end. On the example, the overall project starts on 1/3/11.

I meant it didn't seem to affect anything else, in that I still can't change the start date for the project on the Gantt chart. Under the Project Menu, I changed the start date to 3/1/10. But when I click on the start date for the project in the Gantt chart to change it to 3/1/10, it won't change.

I'm guessing there's something obvious I'm missing, but I can't get the Gantt chart to change to the days I want it to for my project. I realize that I could just start a totally new file and enter each task and days by hand, but it would be a lot quicker and less likely for mistakes if I could use the example I already had and just change the start date in that.

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