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Create a summary task

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Create a summary task

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- [Instructor] Summary tasks help you organize project work. They can represent phases, work performed by different groups, or tasks needed to complete deliverables. We're going to start by inserting a new summary task for existing tasks. To do that, I'm going to drag over the task ID cells for those tasks. In this case, the first three tasks in the list. Then on the task tab, go to the insert section over, kind of on the right side of the ribbon, and then click the button for inserting a summary task. It looks like a horizontal bracket with a plus sign. When I click that button, it inserts a new summary task, and it indents the selected task, so now, they're subtasks that belong to the summary task. The task name cell for the summary task is selected. So I can type in the name. Document requirements. And I'll press enter. Notice that the duration changes to the duration of the subtasks. Now, this is the duration from the earliest date of any of the subtasks to the latest date of any…

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