Microsoft Software
Creating tasks exercise
Relatively easy

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Exercise: Casserole - grouping and linking

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-203.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Open the project file Casserole.mpp, located in the folder shown above.
3) Group the last eight tasks so that the first task becomes a summary task (see below):
Exercise screen-shot 2214 The summary task calculates the total duration
4) Create the following links:
  • Pre-heat oven => Cook in oven
  • Prepare meat => Brown meat
  • Prepare veg => Fry veg
  • Heat pan => Brown meat
  • Brown meat => Fry veg
  • Fry veg => Add stock...
  • Add stock... => Cook in oven
5) Close the file saving the changes.

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