Course Length: 1 day
Prerequisites: None
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Lesson 1: Setting the Plan

• Creating a Baseline Plan
  • Viewing summary information statistics
  • Saving a baseline plan
  • Viewing baseline statistics
• Previewing a Baseline Report
  • Previewing a baseline report
• Clearing a Baseline
  • Clearing a baseline plan

Lesson 2: Tracking Project Progress

• Modifying the Environment for Tracking
  • Applying the Tracking Gantt Chart
  • Changing the current date
• Entering Data for Completed Tasks
  • Tracking a single task that started and finished on schedule
  • Tracking multiple tasks that started and finished on schedule
  • Tracking tasks that finished late
• Entering Actual Data for Tasks in Progress
  • Tracking tasks that are currently in progress
  • Entering a percent complete for unfinished tasks
  • Rescheduling uncompleted work
  • Viewing progress in the Network Diagram

Lesson 3: Adjusting the Schedule

• Adjusting the Schedule of Future Tasks
  • Changing task duration
  • Changing task constraints
  • Using the Detail Gantt view
• Setting and Displaying an Interim Plan
  • Creating an interim-plan table
  • Setting an interim plan
  • Copying the Tracking Gantt Chart
  • Customizing the Interim Tracking Gantt

Lesson 4: Adjusting Resource Schedules

• Work-Hour Considerations
  • Managing resource-driven scheduling
  • Delaying resource work
  • Managing tasks with a fixed duration
  • Using percentages for resource allocations
  • Assigning overtime and recording overtime pay
• Customizing Resource Reports
  • Observing the Who Does What When report
  • Customizing a report

 

 

Lesson 5: Customizing the Microsoft Project Environment

• Working with Views
  • Customizing the Network Diagram
  • Creating a table view
  • Creating a combination view
• Working with Toolbars and Macros
  • Showing and hiding toolbars
  • Creating a macro
  • Assigning a macro to a toolbar
  • Resetting a toolbar
• Working with Global Settings
  • Creating a global view and global calendar
  • Deleting objects
• Using the Options Dialog Box
  • Changing default settings

Lesson 6: Working with Data in Other Applications

• Importing Data
  • Importing resource information from Microsoft Excel
  • Viewing the imported data
• Exporting Data
  • Exporting project information to Microsoft Excel
  • Viewing the exported data
• Copying Data Into Other Office Applications
  • Copying and pasting a Gantt Chart into a Microsoft Word document
  • Copying and pasting sheet information into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

Lesson 7: Working with Resource Pools and Consolidated Projects

• Working with a Resource Pool
  • Opening a resource pool
  • Linking a project to a resource pool
  • Updating the resource pool
• Working with Subprojects and Master Projects
  • Determining when to use a subproject
  • Linking a subproject to a master project
  • Linking tasks in a master project
  • Adding a task to a master project
  • Assigning resources
  • Setting baselines for a master project