I have a schedule broken down by building number (bldg. 1-39); I have inputted the tasks for bldg. 1 (approx. 200) and need to copy and paste this to the other 39 buildings. I can't seem to do this without everything shifting (losing a bldg. etc.) Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
asked Jan 23, 2018 at 21:44
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This is a common task in scheduling as projects often have similar blocks of tasks. With MS Project, the key is to collapse the tasks to a summary level before you copy/paste them.
Steps for duplicating blocks of tasks:
- Create a summary task and name is something like "Building 1".
- Move all the tasks for this building under the summary task.
- Collapse the summary task so all you see is the one summary row.
- Select that row and copy it (Ctrl+C).
- Select the next blank row and paste (Ctrl+V).
- Collapse the new summary task.
- Repeat steps 5 & 6 until you have a summary task for each building.
- Rename the new summary tasks as appropriate.
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@NatashaMercey Glad this was helpful; don't forget to mark the answer as accepted. Feb 15, 2018 at 20:08
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keep up with your great answers on ms-project, always a pleasure to read them. This discussion about ms-project related tags might be of interest to you, pm.meta.stackexchange.com/a/833/27189 . Basically the tags are not being properly used accordingly to the rules. From a recent discussion we understand 1-2 edits are day are understandable, pm.meta.stackexchange.com/a/853/27189 . Jul 19, 2019 at 10:24
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@TiagoMartinsPeres I have no idea why you added this comment. Jul 19, 2019 at 14:27
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Would be great to understand your POV as a user writing mostly for ms-project tag. Have you missed any question through the conventional method of tag watching or didn't increase your ms-project tag score due to having the tags wrongly used in a question? (Maybe you didn't even think of this?) Jul 19, 2019 at 14:44
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1Ah yes, I might miss questions due to (mis)tagging. I’ll review my filters. Jul 19, 2019 at 15:14