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Creating a summary task

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Creating a summary task

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Summary tasks are great for organizing work tasks for a project. They can represent phases of work or tasks performed by a particular group. In Project you can create a summary task for several existing tasks or create a new summary task with its own new subtask. Let's say you want to organize some existing work tasks. For example, you can just drag over the Task Name cells to select the tasks, like these four, and then on the Task tab in the Insert section click Summary. You can see the Project adds a new summary task and makes those four selected tasks sub tasks. Well this is ready for me to type a new task name. So I'll type that name, Document requirements. When I press Enter there is a black bracket that shows the duration of all the subtasks. That's one of the things about summary tasks, the duration of the summary task is the duration of the sequence of subtasks. Well with the summary task, if I wanted to collapse it, so I don't see the subtasks, just click the black triangle…

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