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Viewing tasks and task links

Viewing tasks and task links - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Viewing tasks and task links

After you link tasks, the timescale can get cluttered, making it hard to see which tasks are linked. Project offers a few features that make your schedule easier to see. But when you are first working on a task list you may not want to see the timescale at all, all you want is the names of the tasks and a few pieces of data about each one. Well in that case the Task Sheet is a great view. On the View tab, click the down arrow and choose More Views, then scroll down until you see Task Sheet, select it and click Apply. And you can see this view is just one big table so it's got the task names in the Task Name column, and then other columns for other fields. You can change the columns in the table, so you can see different information about the task. But most of the time you really want to see this kind of information plus the timescale, so that's where the Gantt Chart comes in. You have got the table on the left and then a visual look at the schedule on the right in the timescale. You…

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