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When you outline tasks, summary tasks (summary task: A task that is made up of subtasks and summarizes those subtasks. Use outlining to create summary tasks. Project automatically determines summary task information [such as duration and cost] by using information from the subtasks.) are created along with subtasks (subtask: A task that is part of a summary task. The subtask information is consolidated into the summary task. You can designate subtasks by using the Project outlining feature.). Summary tasks summarize the information associated with the subtasks, such as durations and costs. You can choose to hide summary tasks for your project.

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab.
2. Under Outline options, select or clear the Show summary tasks check box.

Notes

• When you delete a summary task, Project will automatically delete its subtasks. To delete a summary task and retain its subtasks, you need to first outdent (outdenting: Moving a task to a higher outline level [to the left] in the Task Name field.) the subtasks to the same level as the summary task.
• Summary tasks are shown by default and can be displayed independent of the project summary task.