Creating Sub Tasks in Microsoft Project

To create sub-tasks, you need to move the tasks over to the right under the tasks category. For example, Scope is a sub-task of Project Office and all the other tasks listed below Scope are sub-tasks to Scope. So let's move things around to represent this fact.

• Click on row 2 to highlight the row. Once the row is selected click on the arrow pointing right in the toolbar. Scope will shift right and Project Office will change to bold and have a + symbol in front of it. These represent the fact the Project Office has sub-tasks.
• Click on row 3, and while holding the mouse button down, highlight the other rows (3 - 7). Press the right arrow twice to move these tasks over to make the sub-tasks of Scope. Your screen will not look like this...

You can also create sub-tasks by using the mouse. By placing the cursor in the task field you want to make a sub-task you can click and drag the task either left or right to move it to the appropriate task level.

Next we'll ad some predecessors to the tasks that we've defined so far.