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What is Work Contour field?
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The Work Contour field provides choices for the contour shape to use for the resources assigned to a task.
What is Work Availability field?
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The Work Availability field contains the maximum time a work resource is available to be scheduled for work during any selected time period, as distributed over time.
What is Windows User Account field?
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The Windows User Account field contains the Microsoft Windows user name that you enter for a work resource.
What is WBS Successors field?
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The WBS Successors field lists the work breakdown structure (WBS) codes associated with the successor tasks.
What is WBS Predecessors field?
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The WBS Predecessors field lists the work breakdown structure (WBS) codes associated with the predecessor tasks on which the task depends before it can start or finish.
What is WBS field?
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The WBS field contains work breakdown structure (WBS) codes, which are alphanumeric codes you can use to represent the associated task's position in the hierarchical structure of the project.
What is Warning field?
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The Warning field indicates whether Microsoft Project has identified a potential scheduling conflict with a manually scheduled task's start date, finish date, or duration, for example, a problem with a task link or a date constraint. The information with the potential problem is underlined in red. You can then right-click the field to read the warning or suggestion to improve the project.
What is VAC field?
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The VAC field shows the variance at completion (VAC), which is the difference between the budgeted at completion (BAC) or baseline cost and estimated at completion (EAC) cost for a task, resource, or assignment on a task.
What is Update Needed field?
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The Update Needed field indicates whether a Project Server update should be sent to the assigned team members because of changes to a task's start date, finish date, or assignments.
What is Unit Availability field?
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The Unit Availability field contains the percentage or number of maximum units that a work resource is available to accomplish on any tasks during any selected time period, as distributed over time.
What is Unique ID Successors field?
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The Unique ID Successors field lists the unique ID numbers for the successor tasks to a task.
What is Unique ID Predecessors field?
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The Unique ID Predecessors field lists the unique ID numbers for the predecessor tasks on which a task depends before it can be started or finished.
What is Unique ID field?
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The Unique ID field contains the number that Project automatically designates whenever a new task, resource, or assignment is created in the current project.
What is Type field?
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The Type field provides choices that control the effect that editing work, assignment units, or duration has on the calculations of the other two fields.
What is top-down organize method?
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Organize tasks using the top-down method, you identify the major phases first and then break the phases down into individual tasks. 

The top-down method gives you a version of the plan as soon as you decide on the major phases.

What is the risk field?
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The Risk field is a custom field (of type Outline Code) that offers you the possibility to specify the risk level of a certain task. You can choose which custom field to be used as Risk field in the Options dialog.
What is Text1-30 field?
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The Text1 through Text30 fields store any text information that you want to include in your project about tasks, resources, or assignments.
What is Text Above field?
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The Text Above field indicates where text on the subtask Gantt bars appears when rolled up to the summary task bar.
What is TeamStatus Pending field?
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The TeamStatus Pending field indicates whether you've received a response to a progress request you've sent to a resource about assigned tasks.
What is Team Assignment Pool field?
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The Team Assignment Pool field shows whether the current resource is a team resource.
What is TCPI field?
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The TCPI (to complete performance index) field shows the ratio of the work remaining to be done to funds remaining to be spent, as of the status date.
What is Task Summary Name field?
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The Task Summary Name field contains the names of the summary tasks for the task associated with a resource assignment.
What is Task Outline Number field?
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The Task Outline Number field contains the number that represents the associated task's position in the hierarchical outline structure.
What is Task Name field?
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The Task Name field contains the name of the task to which an assignment belongs.
What is Task ID field?
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The Task ID field contains the number that Project assigns to each task as you add it to the project.
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