Background Information
When you use cut and paste to move published tasks in
your Microsoft Project plan, duplicate tasks appear in the user's timesheet, and
one of the two tasks has a large black X indicator in the Indicators
column. When you perform a cut and paste action on a task, you are actually
deleting the original task and creating a new identically named task. Because of
this, you should move the task by dragging and dropping it rather than using Cut
and Paste for this purpose.
Resolution
To manually move a task, perform the following steps:
1. Break task
dependencies between this task and other tasks
2. Select the row
header (gray block to the left of the task name), then drag and drop the task in
its new location
3. Reset task
dependencies as needed
4. Indent or
outdent tasks as needed
5. Click
Collaborate - Publish - All Information
Note: If you actually need to delete a task,
you should always close out the task first. Set all Remaining Work value to 0
hours for all resources assigned to the task and then click Collaborate -
Publish - New and Changed Assignments. After doing so, delete the task and then
click Collaborate - Publish - All Information.