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Edit Multiple Tasks

You can select more than one task or resource to edit properties as a group. This allows you to simultaneously apply common properties or change properties for a selected group of tasks, without having to open each task and edit properties.

Use the Task Properties - Multiple Selections dialog box to edit multiple tasks. To view this dialog box, from a view that displays the task detail pane, select the tasks you want to edit, right-click and select Modify.

The properties that are displayed on the tabs on the Task Properties - Multiple Selections dialog box are those that have the same entry or setting for all of the tasks you have selected. If a field is editable but the selected tasks do not have the same entry or setting, the field displays blank. When you enter values in blank fields, the values for that field changes for all of the selected tasks. Non-editable fields are disabled. Check boxes appear disabled and selected if the selected tasks have different settings.

The tabs and fields on this dialog box are the same as those on the Task Properties dialog box, except the changes you make apply to all of the selected tasks.

The following rules are applied when editing multiple tasks:

• You cannot insert new tasks from this dialog box.
• If any of the selected tasks are subproject tasks, you cannot change task properties.
• If you select detailed tasks and summary tasks together, those tabs not applicable to summary tasks—such as the Dependencies and Resources tabs—do not display.
• When entering a value in a field for which the value must be unique, the first selected task assumes the entered value, and subsequent tasks assume unique incremental numbers. For example, if you enter an ID of ENG while editing a group of three tasks, Task 1 is given ENG as its ID , Task 2 an ID of ENG-0, and Task 3 an ID of ENG-1.
• Some advanced properties are disabled because the value is not common to all selected tasks.

To select multiple tasks

1. In a view that displays the task detail pane, do one of the following:
   • To select a contiguous range of tasks, press the Shift key on your keyboard and click a range of tasks.
   • To select a noncontiguous range of tasks, press the Ctrl key on your keyboard and individually click tasks.

   The tasks are selected.

2. Right-click one of the tasks and select Modify from the shortcut menu.

   The General tab on the Task Properties - Multiple Selections dialog box opens.

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