Chapter 7: Entering Project Tasks

Overview

You’ve prepared all the preliminary material for your project, outlined the project goals, and identified how you’ll measure project success. You are now ready to begin entering tasks. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to enter tasks and set task durations. You’ll explore Project’s outlining features to create summary tasks and subtasks, and see how to move tasks around to group them in the most logical order.

After the initial project planning, creating a solid task list is the most critical step in using Microsoft Project to help you effectively manage a project. Here are the topics covered in this chapter:

• Understanding different types of tasks

• Planning project tasks

• Working with tasks in Gantt chart and other views

• Using Project’s outlining features

• Entering milestones, summary, and recurring tasks