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Inactivating a task

Inactivating a task - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Inactivating a task

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Inactivating tasks helps in several ways. You can create tasks for alternative approaches for the same work, or change requests that haven't been approved, and then make the tasks inactive. That way you see them in your Project file, but they don't affect your schedule, cost, or resource workloads. If you want any inactive tasks become part of the schedule you simply reactivate them. To see how inactive tasks work, let's look at the overall project first. So this project has a Duration of 171.5 days, it starts on June 3rd, finishes on January 28th, has a cost of about $162,000 and Work hours of 2000 hours. Let's say management knows where it wants to go, so you don't have to choose a new location. We'll select the Choose new location summary task, and then on the Task tab, click Inactivate. Well now that these tasks are Inactive you can see a couple of things. First of all, the text is kind of light gray and it has strikethrough through it. In addition in the Timescale, the Task bars…

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