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If you have set a baseline (baseline plan: The original project plans [up to 11 per project] used to track progress on a project. The baseline plan is a snapshot of your schedule at the time that you save the baseline and includes information about tasks, resources, and assignments.) for your project, you can see how tasks (task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. Project plans are made up of tasks.) progress over time and see whether their start (start date: The date when a task is scheduled to begin. This date is based on the duration, calendars, and constraints of predecessor and successor tasks. A task's start date is also based on its own calendars and constraints.) and finish dates (finish date: The date that a task is scheduled to be completed. This date is based on the task's start date, duration, calendars, predecessor dates, task dependencies, and constraints.) are slipping (slippage: The amount of time that a task has been delayed from its original baseline plan. The slippage is the difference between the scheduled start or finish date for a task and the baseline start or finish date.). You can track progress by comparing baseline and scheduled (scheduled: The most current information about a project, including actual and remaining dates, durations, and costs for tasks that have started and the latest projected dates, durations, and costs for tasks that have not yet started.) or actual (actual: Information that shows what has actually occurred. For example, the actual start date for a task is the day that the task actually started.) start and finish dates.

1. On the View menu, click Tracking Gantt.
2. On the View menu, point to Table, and then click Variance.

   Press TAB to move to the variance fields if they are not visible.

The Tracking Gantt view (view: The combination of one or more views [Gantt Chart, Resource Sheet, and so on] and if applicable, a table and a filter. Use views to work with information in a variety of formats. There are three types of views: Charts or graphs, Sheets, and Forms.) displays two task bars, one on top of the other, for each task. The lower bar shows baseline start and finish dates, and the upper bar shows scheduled start and finish dates so that you can see the difference between your plan and the current schedule.