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Using the Main Toolbar

The following table explains the Project Manager commands.

This Button

Does This

New Project

Project

Creates a new project. Once the project has been created summary tasks, milestones, and tasks can be added.

Summary

Summary

Creates a new summary task. If a summary task (or project) is highlighted, the new task will be created as a child. If a task is highlighted the new task will be created as a sibling immediately below it.

Task

Task

Creates a new task. If a summary task (or project) is highlighted, the new task will be created as a child. If a task is highlighted the new task will be created as a sibling immediately below it.

Milestone

Milestone

Creates a new milestone. If a summary task (or project) is highlighted, the new task will be created as a child. If a task is highlighted the new milestone will be created as a sibling immediately below it.

Cut

Cut

Removes information from a project, preparing it to be used elsewhere.

Copy

Copy

Creates a copy of an existing task. (When the copy is pasted into a project the details can be updated.)

Paste

Paste

Inserts information into a project.

Structure

 

Promote

Promote

Moves a task, summary task or milestone to be at the same level as its parent in the Project tree.

Demote

Demote

Moves a task, summary task or milestone to become a child of the task immediately above it.

Move Up

Move Up

Moves a task, summary task or milestone above its preceding object in Project tree.

Move Down

Move Down

Moves a task, summary task or milestone after the object following it in the Project tree.

Expand

Expand

Expands the Project tree to reveal the children of the selected object.

Collapse

Collapse

Collapses the Project tree to hide their children of the selected object.

Link Tasks

Link

Creates dependency relationships between highlighted tasks. By default the prerequisite task will be the task set to start earlier (or if start dates are equal the one higher up the Project tree).

Unlink Tasks

Unlink

Removes all dependency relationships for all highlighted tasks.

Open

Open

Opens the highlighted project, task, summary task or milestone.

Delete

Delete

Deletes all highlighted projects, tasks, summary tasks and milestones.

See Also

Understanding Project Manager

The Components of a Project

The Project Process

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