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Sorting tasks and resources - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Project 2013 Essential Training
Sorting tasks and resources
In Project, you can sort tasks, resources, and assignments in several ways to make them easier to search for. You might sort tasks by duration when you're looking for tasks to shorten, or sort resources by their pay rates when you're trying to reduce costs. When you sort tasks, it's better to turn off the Summary tasks. So to do that, click the Format Tab, and turn off Project Summary Task and Summary Tasks, and now you have all your work tasks in the Project. To sort these tasks, go back to the View Tab, and click Sort, and you can see that there are several built-in sorts. So let's sort by start date. Now you can see the start dates go in chronological order. But if you have a cost-cutting initiative going on, you might want to sort by costs. So go back to the Sort, choose by Cost. I have to drag over, so we can see the Cost column, and now you can see the cost goes from largest to smallest. If you want to get the tasks back into their original order, on the Sort dropdown menu…
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Choosing a view4m 50s
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Working with a table3m 1s
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Inserting and rearranging table columns3m 47s
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Changing the settings for columns in a table3m 43s
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Displaying two views at the same time4m 31s
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Using the Timeline view5m 17s
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Sorting tasks and resources4m 27s
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Grouping tasks and resources4m 45s
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Filtering tasks and resources6m 25s
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Modifying task bar styles and task bar text5m 35s
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Modifying task bar layout2m 48s
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Modifying text formatting2m 52s
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