Dependency Actions That Affect Your Plan

In addition to assigning dependencies, you can take a few other actions with respect to dependencies that can affect your project plan. For example, you can delete and create dependencies to an external project. Both these actions can change the timing of tasks in your plan.

Tip

Tip

If you turn on Change Highlighting, you can see the tasks affected by actions you take when you make changes to dependencies. To turn this on, click Show Change Highlighting on the View menu.

Deleting Dependencies

As you evaluate your project plan, you might find that you added a dependency that really isn’t needed. And, since that dependency ...

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