The previous method only works when you want to stop the work between two specific dates but it does not help you if you want to add a task in the gap and that the gap depends on the length of that task. Or you can start adding some numbers to the dates with 0:s in the Resource Usage view.īut now we move on the other, fundamentally different method of creating splits. How do you remove a split in a task? Well, one method is to take the right bar and drag it to the left. When we return to the Gantt chart we can see that it looks exactly the same (besides me creating a longer gap manually: But below I create a split in task B by moving some hours from Thursday and Friday to the coming week: So, what is keeping you from doing this manually in the Resource view? Well, actually nothing but when you do this manually, you need to have a look at the total sum in the Work column. But what did really happen? Well, to see that we move back to the resource usage view:Ĭan you see what happened? 8h work was moved from that Thursday to the Monday about a week later.

You can now drag the right part of the task bar to specify how big gap you want. We move the cursor to one of the tasks in the Gantt chart and voilâ, we get some help with our splitting:Ĭlick where you want the split to begin. We return to the Gantt Chart view and hit the Split task butcon: If we view the Resource Usage view, we can see the planned work: We have two tasks, of which one was added after we saved baseline. So, I’m going to show you two alternatives. So how do you go about that? Well, like with everything i Microsoft Project, it depends. Sometimes you realize during a project that you need to split a task.

Hide task in gantt chart ms project