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Critical Path for a Subset of Schedule
Similar to what John suggested, I set a deadline on the target task that is several years in the past. That forces the task onto the critical path and the task has a lot of negative slack. In fact, if you set the deadline far enough in the past, the task in question will have the greatest amount of negative slack of all the tasks. Now filter the 'Total Slack' column so you are only displaying tasks with that value. That's your critical path to your intermediate milestone. It is what some people call the 'first critical path'. If you want to see the 'second critical path', filter for the second largest amount of total slack, and so on for 3rd critical path. Don't forget to remove the deadline when you're done!
This was actually a question I was asked in an interview several years ago. Hope this helps. Good luck.
