Moving and inserting bars

You can move bars vertically, to change the order of the tasks in a project.

Moving bars vertically

To move a bar vertically:

  1. Click in the Line column in the spreadsheet, in the row on which the Design task is located. The spreadsheet row, and the Design task, are selected:

    The spreadsheet row and the Design task selected
  2. Move the mouse pointer over the centre of the Design task until the cursor appears like this:

    A rectangle with an arrow on either side
  3. Click and drag the bar to the line above. When you release the mouse button, the Design bar appears above the Set up Site bar:

    The Design bar appears above the Set up Site bar

Inserting bars

You can insert new bars into a project. You may want to do this to add new tasks in between two existing bars, or to add space between two existing bars, which can make a project more legible.

To insert a bar, right-click the Line column in the spreadsheet, in the row on which the Set up Site task is located, and select Insert Bar. A new bar appears before the Set up Site bar.

Your project should now look something like this (note that the dates and durations of tasks may be different):

Illustration of the project at this stage

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