Microsoft Projects allows you to note task dependencies, such as when one task cannot start until another is finished. You want to manage these task dependencies, so MS Project gives you the ability to link them. One way is on the Gantt chart by hovering your mouse on the center of the task bar. Linked summary tasks may cause circular logic warning messages in MS Project. MS Project prevents links between activities that would create circular logic. Consider a plan with 3 activities: Task A, Task B and Task C. Task A’s successor is Task B and Task B’s successor is Task C. Task C cannot link back to Task A as a successor task. Oct 17, 2012 Process for creating subtask in Microsoft Project 2010 is given below. Create a blank project and enter tasks that must be completed in order to achieve your goal. Then on the Task menu search for Indent Task button. Click on the task you want to edit. Now click on the Indent Task button to make the task as a subtask. Linking Tasks in Microsoft Project 2016. To create task dependencies in MS Project 2016, select one task and, while holding the Ctrl key down, select a second task so that both tasks are chosen. Next, on the Task tab, in the Schedule group, click on the chain link button to link the tasks. By doing this, task 2 can’t start until task 1 has finished. Select the tasks you want to make subtasks of the new summary task yet to be created. In the Insert section of the Task ribbon, click the Insert Summary Task button shown in the following figure. Microsoft Project inserts a new summary task with a dummy name and automatically demotes the selected tasks as subtasks of the new summary task, as shown in the following figure. Manually enter a name for the new summary task and press the Enter key on your computer keyboard.
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I opened an existing Microsoft Project file today and was unable to expand/collapse the subtasks use the cursor and the '+/-' signs beside the parent tasks.
I am able to expand and collapse using the 'View->Outline' ribbon icon. https://yellowbuyer868.weebly.com/script-pdf-download.html. However when I attempt to do this using the mouse on specific tasks, my cursor will not perform the task. My cursor is a 'white cross' when I need it to be an 'arrow'.
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DeanDean
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As with the previous post, closing and re-opening fixed the problem. One note is for the project in question, a previous editor had saved it with a filter on the resource names, so that when I opened it that filter was still in place. After removing the filter the +/- to expand/collapse tasks did not work. I saved the project without the filter, then closed/reopened and all worked normally.
Roy HarwellRoy Harwell
I found that closing and reopening the project file resets your cursor. There is probably a more elegant solution, but I don't know that it is.
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AJMAJM
I have also experienced the problem. In my case I had created filters on tasks only (not resources) and then was unable to expand or collapse subtasks with the mouse on the task icon. Even though I did not have my defined filters 'on'. I had to delete my defined filters from the Global filters list in the Organizer, then close the Project application and restart to be able to restore the use of the cursor to expand or collapse subtasks.
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Removing the column filter, saving and exiting MS project and then reloading MS Project resolved the issue for me.
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Sharyn FloydSharyn Floyd
Had this problem when I moved from 2010 to 2013. Removed filters from the global template and it resolved.
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