In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007

Viewing Dependencies

You can view the dependencies you set in your schedule in a couple of ways—and visualizing the dependencies can help you get a handle on the structure of your project.

Throughout this chapter, I’ve shown you dependencies in the Gantt Chart view, and we’ve focused on the position of the link lines and the arrows. You also can use the Task Drivers feature to help you evaluate dependencies in your project. On the Project menu, click Task Drivers, and Project displays information that describes what affects the start date of the currently selected task in the Task Drivers pane at the left edge of the project (see 2-12). The task driver information can include the currently selected task’s start date, the number of the predecessor ...