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Display summary tasks and subtasks

Display summary tasks and subtasks

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Display summary tasks and subtasks

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- [Instructor] In project, you can display and hide summary tasks, or show summary tasks down to a specific level of the task outline. That way you can focus on the tasks you need to see. We're looking at the Gantt chart view, and I want to control whether I see the summary tasks. So that means formatting this view. To do that, I'm going to head up to the ribbon, and I'm going to select the Gantt chart format tab. This is a context sensitive tab that has features specifically for formatting a Gantt chart view. When I display that tab, I'm going to head over to the show/hide section over on the right side of the ribbon. You can see that there's a check box, summary tasks, and it's turned on, which is why you see the summary tasks in the table. Let's turn that check box off. Now, all the summary tasks are hidden, and all I see are the work tasks. When you want to see the organized list again, turn the summary task check box back on. There's another check box, project summary task. Let's…

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