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Select predecessors easily in a dropdown list

Select predecessors easily in a dropdown list

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Select predecessors easily in a dropdown list

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- [Bonnie Biafore] Hi, I'm Bonnie Biafore. In earlier Project versions, you had to know the predecessor's task ID to create a dependency. In Project 2019 and Project Online Desktop, it's easy to select a predecessor in the task form or a table cell. Let's scroll down to a task that I want to link. Implementation begins. Let's start by adding this link in the task form. I'm going to go down to the table where I have predecessor name. I'm going to click the first blank cell. And then click the down arrow. When I do that, I can see the entire task list for the project. All I have to do is scroll to the task that I want to be a predecessor, in this case, initiation complete, and click it in the list. That adds it to the predecessor name cell. And when I click OK, that creates the dependency. But you can also add these in the table in a view like the Gantt Chart or task usage. To see how this works, I'm going to point…

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