Task Menu

Task Menu toolbar

The view button can be used to change quickly different view.

Clipboard group contains common formatting of task, you can change font, size of the task.
Schedule group and tasks group used for manipulation of task we will see in details in future sessions.
Insert group can be used task, recurring task, Summary and Milestones.  You can even import task from outlook into project.
The Deliverable option is used with Microsoft Server and SharePoint.

Properties group used to access more details of task.
The new feature is Timeline view, the “Add to Timeline” can quickly add task, summary task to Timeline view. The button is only visible when you have task name, duration start and end date available.

Editing task is most important and useful group.

“Scroll to” Task is very useful button when you have lot of task and want to view the specific task into the Gantt chart.
Example below, the task “Some Task” is not visible on Gantt chart.

On clicking “Scroll to Task”

The Find button can be used to find task quickly also it can be used to replace task.

The clear button can be used to clear the hyperlink, notes, formatting from task.

Fill button can be used to copy the task details quickly this comes handy as  Microsoft Project doesn't let you paste a value into a range of cells like Excel, thus instead of manually typing in durations or pasting one at a time, there is a "Fill Down" menu option. Select the cell that contains the value you want, select the range and select "Fill Down." This will copy all selected cell values in other selected cells.