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Sorting tasks and resources

Sorting tasks and resources - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Sorting tasks and resources

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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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