Hi Anne,

Work does equal duration if you have 1 resource assigned at 100%. You can add the work field and copy/paste the duration value into the work field if you want to do some very high level planning. However, you may have a scenario where you want the task duration (from start to finish) to show a longer period of time than you estimate the work. For example, you might say it takes a week in duration to accomplish the task - but it is really only about 25 hours of effort)

I do want to caution if you want to get more involved in Project on a deeper level - usually manually adding work without resources is on the "don't" list.

You can add your tasks, select multiple and then indent. The task above becomes the summary.

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