Opening and closing summary tasks

When a bar chart view contains a summary task (), you can open the summary group within that task by doing any of the following:

Double-clicking the summary task.
Selecting the summary task from the chart hierarchy in the project view.
Selecting the summary task then clicking in the Hierarchy group on the Home tab.

To close a summary group, do either of the following:

Double-click the summary task.
Select the summary task, then click in the Hierarchy group on the Home tab.

When you select more than summary task in the project view to display their contents in the bar chart together, it is possible that a summary task may appear twice in the bar chart. This happens when you select a summary task itself as well as its parent in the project tree. When a summary task appears twice in the bar chart, you cannot open the summary task where it appears as part of the selected parent task; you can only view the summary group within the summary task by opening the summary task where it appears in the bar chart outside its parent task.

Depending on the way in which the project is configured, summary tasks may appear as subheadings in the spreadsheet, without being displayed in the bar chart. If this is the case, you must open summary groups by selecting summary tasks from the chart hierarchy in the project view.