Renumbering Activities

If you copy and paste activities, you might need to renumber the activities to fit the numbering format of their new location.

To renumber activities:

  1. Click Projects.
  2. On the Projects navigation bar, click Activities.
  3. Select the activities to renumber, click Row Actions and select Renumber Activity IDs.
  4. In the Renumber Activity IDs dialog box:
  5. Choose a method:
    • Select Increment Activity ID based on selected activities to increment the IDs of the selected activities by the same amount, then specify the amount to increment in the Increment Value box.
    • Select Auto-number re-write the IDs of the selected activities according to a numbering scheme you specify, then specify the Prefix, Starting Number and Increment Value to use.
    • Select Replace beginning characters to replace the first few characters of the activity IDs of the selected activities with specific text, then specify the Number of characters you want to replace and the text you want to Replace with.
  6. Choose whether to Renumber selected activities in baselines.
  7. Click OK.

Related Topics

About Activities

Working with Activities

Creating Activities

Copying and Pasting Activities

Configuring General Activity Information

Assigning Locations to Activities

Recalculating Assignment Costs

About Activity Types

About WBS Summary Activities

About Suspending and Resuming Activities

Dissolving Activities

About the Activity Table and Grid View

About Activity Networks

Copying and Pasting Activities



Last Published Wednesday, July 10, 2024