Scrolling through tasks in Task Information dialog?

[Ed T.]

Hi;

What I would like to do is to have some way within the Task
Information dialog to cycle through the tasks in the project. In this
particular case, it's to look at the predecessors of all the tasks in
the project.

There are a lot of tasks, and it's tedious to double-click one task,
then click Cancel in the Task Information dialog, then double-click
the next task, etc. Selecting multiple tasks and clicking the Task
Information button does not do this--many things are greyed out in the
Multiple Task Information dialog, including the Predecessors tab.

I tried a few up/down arrows, PageUp/PageDown, but none of those help.
There may well be NO way to do this....too bad!

Thanks for any help.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Ed T,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Try Window/Split and in the bottom pane you will see the predecessors of the
task selected in the top screen. With that task selected, just press the
down arrow on your keyboard to meve to the next task, etc.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Dave Carron]

Following on the split view theme, you may find it useful to have the
relationship
diagram in the bottom frame and the gannt in the top. The relationship
diagram is under <view> <more views>

 

[Ed T.]

Hi Ed T,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Try Window/Split and in the bottom pane you will see the predecessors of the
task selected in the top screen. With that task selected, just press the
down arrow on your keyboard to meve to the next task, etc.

Yep, that does the trick. Combined with Dave Carron's suggestion to
use the relationship diagram, I am happy (for now).

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Well, I'm in the position of:

1) Not having any training or practice on MS Project
2) Having to examine various MS Project plans to see how those
projects are getting along

It will be a learning curve for sure--especially because some of the
plan analyses will need more advanced techniques. I don't find the
Project Help files to be particularly helpful on these kinds of
specific queries, and the QUE book I have to hand didn't help either.
So help like I've gotten here is very appreciated!

.....Ed

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Ed,

I sympathise with you, but I must stress the only way of getting up and
running quickly and efficiently is to go on a training course, one to cover
Project Management techniques follwed by one as an Introduction to Microsoft
Project. The cost of the courses should pay back dividends in your speed
and efficiency. Meanwhile, you might like to have a look at my series on
Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

Good Luck

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP