Task Numbers are out of sequence   

I have received a very large project schedule from a subcontractor to import. 
A number of task line item numbers are out of order (in other words Line Item 
1661 follows Line Item 2671).  Is there a way to sort these?

date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:21:03 -0700   author:   Scrufnut

Re: Task Numbers are out of sequence   

Hi,

Project menu, Sort, Sort by ID
Greetings,

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
For availability check:
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf
"Scrufnut"  wrote in message 
news:1559BA7A-A695-4F13-94AF-A3B91EE5D22C@microsoft.com...
>I have received a very large project schedule from a subcontractor to 
>import.
> A number of task line item numbers are out of order (in other words Line 
> Item
> 1661 follows Line Item 2671).  Is there a way to sort these?

date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:28:12 +0200   author:   Jan De Messemaeker

Re: Task Numbers are out of sequence   

Thanks Jan, worked like a champ!

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Project menu, Sort, Sort by ID
> Greetings,
> 
> -- 
> Jan De Messemaeker
> Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
> +32 495 300 620
> For availability check:
> http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf
> "Scrufnut"  wrote in message 
> news:1559BA7A-A695-4F13-94AF-A3B91EE5D22C@microsoft.com...
> >I have received a very large project schedule from a subcontractor to 
> >import.
> > A number of task line item numbers are out of order (in other words Line 
> > Item
> > 1661 follows Line Item 2671).  Is there a way to sort these? 
> 
> 
>

date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:45:03 -0700   author:   Scrufnut

Re: Task Numbers are out of sequence   

Jan,

Actually this did not do what I was trying to accomplish after all.  It did 
reorder the tasks by their ID number but what I guess I wanted to do was, 
becasue the tasks themselves are already in the proper order, was to reassign 
new task ID #s based on the order that tasks are presently in.

Is this even possible?

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Project menu, Sort, Sort by ID
> Greetings,
> 
> -- 
> Jan De Messemaeker
> Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
> +32 495 300 620
> For availability check:
> http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf
> "Scrufnut"  wrote in message 
> news:1559BA7A-A695-4F13-94AF-A3B91EE5D22C@microsoft.com...
> >I have received a very large project schedule from a subcontractor to 
> >import.
> > A number of task line item numbers are out of order (in other words Line 
> > Item
> > 1661 follows Line Item 2671).  Is there a way to sort these? 
> 
> 
>

date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:46:00 -0700   author:   Scrufnut

Re: Task Numbers are out of sequence   

Hi Scrufnut,

You will have to resort them in the original order, but in the Sort dialog, 
select to permanently renumber the tasks.

Mike Glen
Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 Scrufnut wrote:
> Jan,
>
> Actually this did not do what I was trying to accomplish after all.
> It did reorder the tasks by their ID number but what I guess I wanted
> to do was, becasue the tasks themselves are already in the proper
> order, was to reassign new task ID #s based on the order that tasks
> are presently in.
>
> Is this even possible?
>
> "Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Project menu, Sort, Sort by ID
>> Greetings,
>>
>> --
>> Jan De Messemaeker
>> Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
>> +32 495 300 620
>> For availability check:
>> http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf
>> "Scrufnut"  wrote in message
>> news:1559BA7A-A695-4F13-94AF-A3B91EE5D22C@microsoft.com...
>>> I have received a very large project schedule from a subcontractor
>>> to import.
>>> A number of task line item numbers are out of order (in other words
>>> Line Item
>>> 1661 follows Line Item 2671).  Is there a way to sort these?

date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:31:11 +0100   author:   Mike Glen glenATmvps.org