The project I am currently working on is about 25 pages long. At the very top of the sheet I have a summary of the main milestones and then lower down I have the milestones again- this time they are separated out and are underneath the heading of the project that they relate to.

I would like a way to link the two task so that when I change the milestone in the summary section the duplicate milestone lower down also changee. I have tried linking them by start to start and finish to finish but this hasn't worked. Please help!

Hi Claire

thanks for describing the problem you are encountering.

From your description it sounds like the top part of your plan is made up of a top level summary - and below is the full detailed plan.

The milestones in the summary also appear in the full plan.
Changing a date in the summary should move the corresponding milestone in the detail (or vice verse).

This presents a challenge as you are having to keep two sets of the same data (both sets of milestones) up to date.

One approach is to do away with the summary altogether. When you want to see just the milestones use the built in filter
(Project Menu then Filtered For > Milestones)

You can then revert to see all tasks by going to Project > Filtered for > All tasks.

If you find the summary tasks clutter up the filtered display you can temporarily turn them off
Tools > Options > View tab and remove the tick from Show Summary Tasks.

I hope this helps. If not please let us know.

Kind regards,

Andrew