From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training

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Display summary tasks and subtasks

Display summary tasks and subtasks

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Display summary tasks and subtasks

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- [Narrator] In Project, you can display and hide summary tasks, or show summary tasks down to a specific level of the task outline. That way, you can focus on the tasks you need to see. So here we're looking at a project using the Gantt Chart view. If you want to format how this view looks, go to the "Format" tab on the ribbon. The "Format" tab is a context-sensitive tab, so when you're looking at the Gantt Chart, it has features for formatting a Gantt Chart view. For example, we're going to head over to the "Show/Hide" section on the right side of the ribbon. If you want to hide the summary tasks, turn off the "Summary Tasks" checkbox. That way, all you see are your work tasks. Then, when you're ready to see them again, you can turn the checkbox back on. The "Project Summary" task is a special task at the top of the project. It has "Task ID 0" It's a summary task that Project creates, that summarizes everything about the project. For example, we can see the duration of the project…

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