Question on original work and actual work

Hey folks,
Sometimes the simplest things in Project befuddle me. I'm working in Project 2010 Standard. I have a whole bunch of "Fixed Work" tasks. This is a pretty simple project, and I haven't done baselines or anything like that.
So let's say I have a task, "Build X" that is was originally estimated as 4 hours of work. That is entered into the Work column.
During the project, Build X gets completed, and I learn that it only took 2 hours of work. I want to enter this into Project so that we know that:
Task "Build X" is 100% complete
The actual work was only 2 hrs
The original estimate was for 4 hrs
However, if I enter 100% into either % complete or % work complete, Project changes the Actual Work to 4 hrs, which is wrong. If I set the Actual Work to 2 hours, Project changes % complete or % work complete to 50%, which is also wrong.
Is there anything I can do here that doesn't involve baselines?
Thanks!

sbattisti,
What have you got against setting a baseline? A baseline captures your original plan. The schedule will be dynamic and as things happen Project updates that dynamic plan to reflect what really happened. So no, there is no way to do what you want without
a baseline, except perhaps of capturing the original work value in an extra field (e.g. Text1), but there's no point in doing that.
Set a baseline. That will capture "Build X" as being originally planned at 4 hours work. When you later find out that it only took 2 hours, you enter that into the Actual Work field and set the Remaining Work field to zero. That tells Project that
the task is in fact complete and it only took 2 hours. If you then display the Baseline Work field you will see that the original plan was 4 hours. You can also display Work Variance.
Hope this helps.
John
OK, thanks very much. I'll do that.
I have a follow-up question, but it's not really directly related, so I will post separately, thanks!

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