Customizing Groups

In Microsoft Project, groups can collate tasks, resources, or assignments that meet a set of conditions. For example, you might group tasks by their schedule variance so that you can concentrate on the ones furthest behind schedule. You might group resources by their level of availability so that you can assign the resources who have the most free time. You can also choose to group assignments instead of tasks or resources, for example, to see which assignments are running over on the targeted hours.

Group headings show subtotals for the values in the numeric fields for the group. For example, assignments grouped by salaried employees, hourly employees, and contractors can show the total hours of work performed by each group. ...

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