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Change requests, part 1: Flag change requests

Change requests, part 1: Flag change requests

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Change requests, part 1: Flag change requests

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- [Bonnie] Hi, Bonnie Biafore here with another project tip. Today I'll show you how to flag change request tasks in your project files. The first thing we're going to do is create a custom field to identify change request tasks. I've got my project showing in the Gantt chart view. I'm going to add a column to this table so that I can see change request numbers. To do that, I'll right-click the duration heading, and on the shortcut menu, choose insert column. I'm going to use the Text10 field for my change request numbers. So I start to type the name of the field, and when I see it in the list, I can click it to add that to the table. Once it's in the table, it's really easy to customize it. Just right-click the heading for that custom field, and on the shortcut menu, choose Custom Fields. That will open up the Custom Fields dialog box, it will select the correct type in the type box, and it selects the field for that…

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