Microsoft Project Training

Lesson 1: The Basics

Opening Project
Using the Welcome Project
Creating a New Project
Signing In
Saving a Project
Opening a Project

Lesson 2: Setting Up a Project

Entering Project Information
Setting Working Time
Choosing Automatic or Manual Scheduling
Entering Tasks

Lesson 3: Scheduling Work

Organizing Tasks into Phases
Linking and Unlinking Tasks
Moving Tasks
Rescheduling Tasks
Splitting Tasks
Deleting Tasks

Lesson 4: Managing Resources

Entering Resources
Using the Resource Information Dialog
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Removing and Replacing Resource Assignments

Lesson 5: Creating a Timeline

Showing and Hiding the Timeline
Customizing Timeline Tasks
Changing the Font for Individual Timeline Items
Modifying Global Text Styles
Copying the Timeline

Lesson 6: Managing Tasks

Creating Recurring Tasks
Importing Outlook Tasks
Inactivating Tasks
Updating Task Completion
Updating the Project

Lesson 7: Working with Deadlines and Constraints

Using the Task Information Dialog
Changing the Task Calendar
Using Lag and Lead Time
Creating Milestones
Setting Deadlines
Creating Constraints

Lesson 8: Working with Data

Sorting Data
Filtering Data
Highlighting Data
Grouping Data
Outlining Data

Lesson 9: Creating Reports

Creating a Built-In Report
Creating a Dashboard
Creating a Report from Scratch
Creating a Visual Report

Lesson 10: The Finishing Touches

Viewing the Entire Project
Checking Your Spelling
Running the Task Inspector
Applying a Gantt Chart Style
Highlighting Critical, Slack, or Late Tasks

Lesson 11: Printing and Sharing Your Project

Saving a Project as PDF or XPS
Exporting a Project as an Excel Workbook
Printing a Project
E-mailing a Project

Lesson 1: Detailed Course Outline The Quick Access Toolbar and Advanced Calendar Topics

Configuring the Quick Access Toolbar
About advanced calendars
24-hour calendars
Creating a global template from a custom calendar
Assigning a task calendar

Lesson 2: Working with Tasks

Adding notes to tasks
Setting a task deadline
Setting task priority
Grouping tasks
Sorting tasks
Filtering tasks
Highlighting tasks
Adding a fixed cost to a task

Lesson 3: Working with Resources

Grouping resources
Sorting resources
Filtering resources
Highlighting resources
Resource working time and resource pools
About resource non-working time
Setting working time for specific resources
Resource pools for sharing resources
Creating a resource pool
Sharing a resource pool
About resource budget costs
Step 1: Creating a Budget Cost Resource
Step 2: Creating a Budget Work Resource
Step 3: Creating a Budget Material Resource
Displaying Budget Cost Resources
Setting up Task Usage view
Assigning a budget resource to the Project Summary Task

Lesson 4: Managing the Project Schedule

Multiple baselines and interim plans
Setting multiple baselines
Setting and using a status date
Resolving resource conflicts and scheduling issues
About resource leveling
Using the Tracking Gantt View
Leveling resources to resolve conflicts and scheduling issues
Delaying a task

Lesson 5: Other Views and Shortcuts

About task forms
Using task forms
About resource forms
Using resource forms
Compound views and the Relationship Diagram
Keyboard shortcuts
Implementing the Relationship Diagram in a compound view

Lesson 6: Working with Multiple Projects and Project Integrations

Consolidation of multiple projects
Advantages and disadvantages of consolidation
Creating a project schedule consolidation
Creating project snapshots
About Project Server, Project Online, and SharePoint

Lesson 7: Working with Project data and Closing out a Project

Working with Project data
Capturing and using Project data in Word and PowerPoint
Capturing and using Project data in Word and PowerPoint
Annotating a project schedule view
Copying the timeline to a PowerPoint presentation
Closing out a project
Final reports
Creating a cost overruns report with headers and footers
Saving a project as a template and using it to create a new project