# Set an Interim Plan

After you save a baseline plan and begin updating your schedule, you may want to periodically save an interim plan. An interim plan is a set of schedule information you can save at any time during your project. You can compare the information in an interim plan with baseline information to monitor project progress.

You can save up to 10 interim plans for each schedule to compare changes in the scheduled dates of tasks. Interim plans are useful for analyzing the accuracy of your scheduling estimates and for determining when your schedule began to get off track.

The task data saved in an interim plan includes the start and finish dates and any split dates. No resource or assignment data is saved in an interim plan.

To set an interim plan

1. On the Tools menu, point to Tracking, and then click Save Baseline.
2. Click Save interim plan.
3. In the Copy box, click the plan name you want to save.
4. In the Into box, click the name under which you want to save the plan.
5. Click Entire project or Selected tasks to save the portion of the schedule you want.

©1996-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.