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Microsoft Project

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Personal Development

  • Review the project that was created in the interval since the last course; review of Introduction Course

More about Tasks

  • Task types (Fixed Units, Fixed Duration, Fixed Work)
  • Priorities
  • Project settings affecting tasks and resources

Resources

  • Creating and Managing a Resource Pool
  • Updating and Refreshing Resource Pools
  • Closing Files with Shared Resources
  • Resource Cost bands; Overtime
  • Assigning Resource Contours
  • More on Calendars and other Project time-frame issues

Reporting

  • A further look at Reporting
  • Custom Reports

Tracking the Project

  • Saving with a Baseline
  • Task Completion
  • Notifying Task Status
  • Using Outlook to notify Task Status
  • Splitting
  • Tracking
  • The Tracking Gantt Chart
  • Adding more constraints (flexible and inflexible)
  • Interim Plans; Variance Tables

Templates

  • Using a Built-in-Template
  • Creating a Template
  • swapping ready-built calendars, reports, etc from file to file within Project

Customising Project

  • Custom Views
  • Custom Filters
  • Custom Gantt Chart bars
  • Custom Tables
  • The Table Definition Screen
  • Customising Tables on Screen
  • Custom Fields
  • Adding Custom Notes to charts
  • Linking Custom Notes to tasks
  • The Organiser

Multiple Project Management

  • Linking between Projects
  • Resources in Linked Projects
  • Consolidated Projects

Working with Excel

  • Output Project data to Excel
  • Import Excel data to project
  • Creating updateable links and charts from Excel