Expand and Collapse Summary Tasks

When viewing your plan, sometimes you just want to see an overview of your project that includes the major steps or phases. Sometimes you need to see every task, down to the smallest detail. When you outline your project, indenting subtasks under summary tasks, you can view and print your project plan at any level of detail by collapsing and expanding various summary tasks in your project.

By collapsing or expanding an outline, you can hide or display the subtasks of a summary task. For example, you can collapse the outline to show only the top-level tasks, and then print that view to create a summary report for your project. You can also collapse or expand specific summary tasks, highlighting (in bold) or hiding the tasks or group of tasks you want.

To collapse or expand an outline

To expand the entire outline, click Show All Subtasks .

1. On the View Bar, click Gantt Chart .
2. In the Task Name field, select the summary task containing the subtasks you want to show or hide, or select the nonsummary tasks you want to hide.
3. Click Show Subtasks to show the subtasks or click Hide Subtasks to hide the subtasks.

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