Project 2013 Advanced

Lesson 5 - Working With Multiple Projects

Project 2013

Steps

Practice Data

2. Select the New Window command. The New Window dialog box opens with the open files displayed in the Projects list box. 3. Select the files in the Projects list box you want to consolidate. The projects are selected.

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Drag to select all three files.

4. Select OK .

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The New Window dialog box closes and a new project file that contains all the selected projects opens.

Scroll to view the subprojects and then collapse all the subproject information. Drag to rearrange the subprojects in the following order: Planning , Structure , Infrastructure . Expand the subprojects. If necessary, widen the Duration column to view the values. Save the file as Dwell 19 and if prompted, save the subprojects.

L INKING AND U NLINKING S UBPROJECT T ASKS

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Discussion

You can link subproject tasks just as you link tasks in the same project file. By default, a Finish-to-Start relationship is created, but this relationship can be changed as desired.

When you link tasks in different subprojects, the file path, file name, and task ID appear in the Predecessors field for the appropriate task. This information appears in both the master file and the subproject files. In addition, each subproject file displays the linked task(s) in gray. This gray link to an external task is also called a ghost task. You can double-click a gray (or ghost) task to switch to, or open, a subproject file.

If you later decide that you no longer want the subprojects linked, you can remove the link between subproject information just as you can with other tasks.

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