Create subtasks and summary tasks to outline the task list in your project. Indent and outdent tasks to show their hierarchy.

Summary tasks may represent different phases in your project or higher-level portions of work, while subtasks represent more detailed work that falls under larger phases or tasks.

In Microsoft Project, when you make changes to a subtask, those changes may not be reflected in the summary task for that subtask. For example, if you change the amount of work on a subtask, the …

With the top-down method of scheduling project work, you identify the major phases (or summary tasks) first, and then break the phases down into individual tasks (subtasks), rather than the other way …

Get started managing a new project. Add, outline, and link tasks, switch to different views, and print your project.

Creating a master project and subprojects lets you break down a large project and delegate its parts to the necessary people. In project-management terms, assigning subprojects in this manner gives …

You can indent or outdent a task, move a task up or down in the list, or permanently delete a task from the list. You may want some tasks to be indented below others, to indicate a set of subtasks that fall …

You can insert a subproject anywhere in the task list of the master project. Click Project > Subproject. In the Insert Project box, select the subproject you want to insert. To insert multiple subprojects, hold …

If you are rolling up several subtasks, you can also hide the summary task bar in Task Information dialog box. You can globally set rollup behavior for all summary tasks on a Gantt Chart view in the Layout …

The Sort dialog box helps you sort by multiple columns at the same time and gives you a way back to your project’s original outline structure if things get messed up.