Indenting and outdenting bars

You can move bars into and out of charts and summary groups, using the Indent and Outdent controls in the Hierarchy group on the Home tab. When you use these controls, the selected bars are indented or outdented one level, in other words they move up or down the project hierarchy. If the selected bars are contained within nested charts or summary groups, you might want to indent or outdent them by more than one level.

You cannot indent or outdent individual tasks. When a bar has multiple tasks, indenting or outdenting any task on the bar indents or outdents the whole bar.

  1. Select the bar(s) by clicking its number in the line numbers column.
  2. Click Indent in the Hierarchy group on the Home tab.

The bar is indented one level and inserted at the bottom of the chart or summary group of the preceding parent task.

You can only indent a bar when it is preceded by an expanded task or summary task in the bar chart view. The bar is indented into that parent task.

If you select several bars that are dispersed throughout the bar chart, they are grouped together after being indented. If there are several parent tasks within the bar chart and you select bars dispersed throughout the chart, when you indent the bars, each bar is indented into the parent task that immediately precedes it, so the bars might not all be indented into the same parent task.

You can also add a blank bar to the end of a summary group by selecting the summary task, then on the Home tab, in the Insert group, clicking the Bar dropdown and selecting Bar at end of Summary.

  1. Select the bar(s) by clicking on its number in the line numbers column.
  2. Click Outdent in the Hierarchy group on the Home tab.

The bar is outdented one level and inserted below the parent task from which it was outdented.

If you select several bars dispersed throughout a chart or summary group, they are grouped together after being outdented. If you select bars that are dispersed throughout several charts or summary groups, when you use the Outdent command the bars within each chart or summary group are grouped together and inserted immediately below their respective parent task, so the bars might not all be outdented below the same parent task.

Related Topics:

Working with charts

Working with summary tasks