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Splitting a task - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Project 2013 Essential Training
Splitting a task
When tasks overlap the assigned resources may not have enough time available to get all their work done. One possible solution is splitting tasks and assignments. If a task is short you can split another task to allow resources to jump onto the short task, finish it, and go back to wrap up their other work. For example, in this project identify additional costs and hire contractors both occur at the same time and they both use the Project manager, but hire contractors is really short. So we can add a split and let the Project manager jump off and finish that task and then go back to identifying additional costs. To do this we kind of want these task bars to be a little bit longer so it's easier to add the split. So the thing to do there is on the View tab in the Zoom section. Click the Timescale down arrow and in this case choose Quarter Days. You can see that the taskbars I actually get quite long, but that's what we want. So we'll scroll over to where these two tasks are. Now to…
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Reviewing the critical path3m 53s
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Using the Task Inspector to review scheduling issues2m 57s
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Splitting a task2m 7s
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Delaying a task or assignment2m 42s
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Adjusting a work contour2m 53s
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Leveling resources4m 54s
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Inactivating a task2m 41s
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