Cool Tip: Project 2013 Lookup Tables That ‘Create’ Themselves

Project 2013, Project Professional 2013

So the title is very interesting and has you curious.  What are these folks talking about?

Microsoft Project 2013 give you the ability to create a field based on a look-up that you can populate right from the field.  Wait – you can dynamically populate a lookup by adding the value right in the field.  Isn’t this great.

All you need to do is check the checkbox for Allow additional items to be entered into the fields. (Values will be added to lookup)

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