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Roll Up a Gantt Bar to a Summary Task Bar

In a project that contains many tasks, you can see only a small percentage of the tasks on the screen without scrolling. An effective way to see information about more tasks on one screen is to roll up task bars; that is, display them on their summary task bars. This gives you a quick overview of the scheduled finish dates for selected subtasks. On the summary task bar, the rolled-up tasks are represented by bars and milestone dates are represented by diamonds.

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To roll up a Gantt bar to a summary task bar

  1. On the View Bar, click Gantt Chart .
  2. In the Task Name field, select the subtask you want to roll up.
  3. Click Task Information , and then click the General tab.
  4. Select the Roll up Gantt bar to summary check box.
    The task bar is displayed as part of the summary task bar.
  5. To hide the original subtask bar, select the Hide task bar check box.

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