I am researching MS Project 2007.



Having done a fair bit of research - I have an idea of how to draw up and monitor a project plan. One thing I keep seeing is 'roll ups' - I have done some research - but roll ups don't appear to do that much.....or am I missing something ..

Could someone define roll ups and the practical application of such ?

I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by "roll ups" - are you referring to summary tasks?

By default subtask data (work, cost) values to "roll up" to summary level tasks. The advantage of summary tasks is organizational. You can create "Phases" in your project and see the cost per phase or the work per phase.

There is a setting in Task Information to "roll up" task bars to summary - that is purely visual and causes and subtask bar to appear superimposed on the summary task bar.