### Portions Are Very Flexible

You can split, move, recombine, and resplit tasks in several ways:

- You can split a task into any number of portions.
- You can remove the split between any two portions and recombine them.
- You can move each portion of a split task independently of the other portions. That is, you can change one portion’s start and finish dates without affecting the start and finish dates of the other portions.
- You can move portions and change their durations in the same way you perform these actions for whole tasks.
- When you split a task, you don’t change its duration, regardless of the length of the gaps between portions. The duration of a split task changes only when you change the duration of a portion.
- You can change the duration of each portion of a split task without affecting the durations of the other portions.
- When you split a linked task, the entire task remains linked as a whole task. You cannot link portions of the same task or portions from different tasks. If you try to link a portion of one task to a portion of another task, Microsoft Project links the whole tasks, not the portions.

To split a task

1. On the View Bar, click Gantt Chart .
2. Click Split Task .
3. Position the pointer over the task bar you want to split, and then drag the task bar to create the split.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each portion you want to create.

If at any time you decide that work on two portions of a split task can occur without a stop period in between, you can recombine them.

To combine two portions of a split task

1. On the View Bar, click Gantt Chart .
2. Drag a portion from right to left until it touches the nearest portion.
   The two portions merge into one task bar.

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