Getting started
- Steps of project management
- Defining the goals of a project, defining the requirements of a project
- Identifying potential problems in a project schedule
- Identifying potential opportunities for reducing costs
- Tracking the progress of a project
- Resolving resource over-allocation problems
- Reporting the progress of a project
- Evaluating a completed project, what is Microsoft project?
- Starting Microsoft project, the Microsoft project application window
- Working with Microsoft project menus and toolbars
- Changing the project view, resetting the working folder
- Displaying help information
Building a simple project
- The Project guide
- Setting a project start date / saving a Project
- Creating a Project schedule, entering a milestone
- Inserting and deleting tasks
- Reordering a task list, closing a project
Developing a project plan (part 1)
- Outlining a task list, types of task relationships
- Linking tasks in a finish-to-start relationship
- Changing the time-scale of a Gantt chart
- Linking tasks in a finish-to-finish relationship
- Adding lag time between tasks, adding lead time between tasks
- Using work breakdown structure codes
- Creating a network diagram
Developing a project plan (part 2)
- Revising the Project calendar
- The resource sheet, adding resources to the resource sheet
- Creating new calendars for resources
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Revising resource information / assigning additional units of a resource to a task
- Contouring a resource assignment
- Working with cost rate tables
- Creating and applying a task calendar
Developing a project plan (part 3)
- Identifying the critical path of a project
- Identifying slack time in a project schedule
- Constraining a task, setting a deadline for a task
- Defining a fixed-duration or fixed work task
- Additional project planning topics
Sharing data with other applications
- Copying a Microsoft Project view into a Microsoft Word document
- Exporting Microsoft Project sheet entries into a Microsoft Excel worksheet
- Importing Microsoft Excel worksheet entries into Microsoft Project
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Additional Microsoft Project features
- Using a Microsoft Project template
- Creating a custom template
- Adding text fields and flag fields to a sheet view
- Customizing Microsoft Project
Organizing and analyzing project information
- Sorting and grouping project information
- Creating a custom group option
- Applying a predefined filter to a view
- Applying an autofilter to a view
- Creating a custom filter
- Applying a new table to a view
- Creating a custom table
- Creating a custom view
Tracking a project (part 1)
- Saving a baseline plan
- Updating a project schedule
- Comparing the actual and planned progress of a project
- Adding progress lines to a Gantt chart
- Additional methods for updating a project schedule
- Rescheduling uncompleted work
- Scheduling overtime work
- Additional project tracking topics
Tracking a project (part 2)
- Monitoring resource allocation
- Methods for resolving resource over-allocation problems
- Manually delaying tasks
- Automatically delaying tasks
- Displaying earned value analysis data
Communicating project information (part 1)
- Displaying a project schedule in calendar view
- Printing a view
- Modifying page setup options for a printout
- Enhancing the elements of a view
Communicating project information (part 2)
- Printing a predesigned report
- Editing a predesigned report
- Using a report template
Working with multiple projects
- Setting up a consolidated project
- Linking tasks across projects of a consolidated project
- Identifying all critical paths in a consolidated project
- Using a resource pool
- Updating a resource pool at any time
Additional intermediate Microsoft Project features
- Recording and running a macro
- Creating a custom form
- Using the organizer
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