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Displaying summary tasks

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Displaying summary tasks

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You'll often need to look at summary tasks in order to see what's going on in your project. Sometimes you may want to see certain levels of tasks. For instance, you might want to see just the lowest level tasks to assign resources to work tasks or to check progress. In Project you can display and hide summary tasks or show summary tasks down to a specific level of the task outline. Well to hide or display summary tasks, all you have to go in a Gantt chart view is go to the Format tab. And you can see in the Show/Hide section that the Summary Tasks checkbox is turned on, and you can see the summary tasks. Well if you just want to see work tasks turnoff checkbox and all the summary tasks go away. So these are all the work tasks that have resources assigned. You'll want to see the Summary Tasks again, turn the checkbox back on and the summary tasks come back. Well there's also the Project Summary Task checkbox, so turn that one on, and you see that a new row appears at the top of the…

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