Sort
Tasks
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| Get large projects
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Milestones Professional offers
sorting in either ascending or descending order by any of the following:
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Choose
Edit | Undo
Sort, to revert back to the original schedule after sorting.
Once you sort and then make a change to the schedule, you cannot
undo the sort. |
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| Click
here
for a tip on how to create a schedule that can be resorted to the
"original" schedule. |
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Use this schedule as
a reference for the sorted schedules to follow: |
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Sort
task lines by date |
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Choose Tools | Sort
Tasks | By Date.
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Choose Ascending or
Descending order.
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Sort by First Date or Last Date on the task line.
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Optionally, choose to keep the Outline Structure of
the schedule.
Below, the dates
are in ascending order from earliest to latest according to the
first date on each task line: |
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Sort
task lines by a selected column |
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Highlight the key column for sorting, as shown below left.
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Choose
Tools | Sort
Tasks | Using Selected Column as Key...
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As shown below right,
choose Ascending/Descending and a type of column text.
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Click OK.
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Below are the results of the sort, with employee names grouped in
alphabetical order. |
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| Sort
task lines by multiple columns |
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Choose Tools
| Sort Tasks.
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Choose
Using
Multiple Columns as Key to bring up the
Multi-Column Sort dialog
box.
- Click either
Sort in Ascending Order or
Sort in Descending Order.
- Click
All Task
Lines.
- Check up to three columns. (First
Key Column, Second Key
Column and Third Key
Column).
- Beneath each column that is
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choose the column to be sorted.
- For each column being sorted, choose either
Text,
Numeric,
Currency, or
Date.
- Save the sort settings.
- Click OK.
Below are the results of the sort, with
tasks grouped by Project/Employee first, then in ascending order
based on the Budget value.
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