Thanks Julie. My next issue is this: why does MS project automatically put Start dates in for summary tasks? I want to have manually scheduled dates for all my date fields - and I cant get my Projected Cost and Actual Cost to rollup all the way? If you look at the photo I attached, you'll see that my projected duration and actual duration, projected cost and actual cost formulas are finally right for the 5th line down (its a subtask), and I have those columns set to rollup using the sum. it appears that the actual cost column rolled up a little bit but not all the way to the top summary task.

Thanks for the help.

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