Project 2016 - Introduction

Project 2016

Lesson – Scheduling Tasks

Linking summary tasks is not the same as linking subtasks. If you have a summary task with unlinked subtasks and then link that summary task to another summary task, only the summary tasks are linked. If you want any of the subtasks to be linked, you have to link them individually.

If you link a group of consecutive tasks that include summary and subtasks, Microsoft Project automatically creates links between the summary tasks.

NOTE You can also link a summary task to a subtask in another phase, but you cannot link a summary task to one of its own subtasks.

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Procedures

1. Switch to the Gantt Chart view. 2. Select the first summary task you want to link. 3. Hold [Ctrl] and select the next summary task you want to link. 4. On the Task ribbon in the Editing group, click the Link Tasks button .

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Step-by-Step

Link summary tasks.

Scroll so that both the 9 Build Structure and the 17 Build Infrastructure summary tasks are visible.

Steps

Practice Data

1. Select the first summary task you want to link. The summary task is selected. 2. Hold [Ctrl] and select the next summary task you want to link. The summary tasks are selected.

Click the 9 Build Structure task.

Hold [Ctrl] and click the 17 Build Infrastructure task.

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