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Working with work breakdown structure (WBS) codes - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Project 2013 Essential Training
Working with work breakdown structure (WBS) codes
A Work Breakdown Structure, also called a WBS, is the Project management term for a hierarchy of tasks. By breaking tasks down in this way, project work is easy to assign, track and manage. To uniquely identify each task in your project, you'll need WBS codes. Well if you look at this view, you'll see the Task ID column. Well these numbers, the task IDs, are not a WBS, because if you move tasks around, those task IDs change and you really want WBS codes, for the most part you want them to stay the same. So the easiest thing to do is to insert a WBS field into a table. So I right-click the Task Name heading and choose Insert Column and then type WBS. Click the WBS field and now the codes are in this table. Well this shows you that Project actually has a WBS numbering scheme behind the scenes and it's just numbers at every level. So Planning Move is at the top level, so it has a number of 1 and you can see down here Construct and set up space has a number of 2, because it's another…
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Understanding manual and auto scheduling4m 36s
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Creating a manual task2m 31s
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Creating an autoscheduled task1m 57s
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Switching between manual and automatic scheduling2m 12s
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Creating a milestone task1m 25s
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Creating a recurring task4m 18s
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Copying tasks from another program1m 47s
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Creating a summary task4m 8s
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Displaying summary tasks2m 30s
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Organizing tasks in a task list4m 59s
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Working with work breakdown structure (WBS) codes6m 56s
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