Preparation
- Project start
- Network planning technique for project planning
- Structure analysis
- Project administration
The MS Project Program
- Starting
- The Project screen
- Exiting Microsoft Project
- Switching to other programs
- The ribbon
- Contextual tools
- The File menu
- Context menus and toolbars
- Icons
- Keys
- Views
- Undoing changes
- The Search Assistant
Our First Project
- Creating a new project
- Project information and maintaining start and finish dates (deadline)
- Saving the file
- File information
- The table view
- Entering task names
- Editing data
- Entering duration and predecessors
- The time unit
- Project calendar
- The Gantt chart
Resources and Costs
- Planning resource use
- Assigning resources and costs
The 2nd Project: Road Construction with Resource Planning
- The task list
- Constraints
- Planned costs and capacities
- The resource and cost assignment list
- Assigning, replacing and removing resources
- Hiding and showing columns
- Custom fields
- Staggered resource start (contoured assignment)
Further Basics for Working with Project
- Entering recurring tasks
- Entering milestones and key dates
- Adding task notes
- Inserting a hyperlink
- Interrupting a task
Inserting, Deleting, Copying and Moving
- Moving and copying
- Inserting and deleting tasks
The Project Outline
- Outlining into summary tasks and subtasks
- Hiding and showing subtasks
- Displaying outline numbers
- Selecting the tasks displayed (setting filters)
- Sorting tasks
- Grouping tasks
Finding and Selecting Data
- Overview of navigating & selecting
- Searching
- Go to task, resource, date
- Showing a selected task
Calendar Settings
- The timeline
- The project and resource calendar
Task Relationships
- Creating task relationships
- Deleting task relationships
- Changing task relationships
Working with Task and Resource Costs
- Splitting the Project window
- Time-varying costs, fixed costs and accrual
- Overview of a project’s cost status
- Cost per resource
Revising the Project Plan
- Checking task links
- Checking task relationships
- Checking the critical path
- Multiple critical paths
- Checking slack time
- Checking constraints
- Checking resource utilisation
- Checking task costs
- Checking resource costs
- Checking total project costs
- Monitoring costs using a baseline
- Visualising delays
Options for Adjusting the Schedule Target
- Splitting into smaller critical and non-critical tasks
- Defining overlap and concurrency ranges
- Shortenings
Eliminating Resource Overallocations
- Changing the assignment of resources to tasks
- Reducing the resource assignment time to tasks
- Task Inspector pane
- Extending working hours
- Performing resource levelling
Project Control/Monitoring
- Project progress
- View combinations
Reporting
- Standard reports and dashboards
- Customising reports
- Creating a custom report
Printing
- Printing views
- Page setup
- Inserting and removing a page break
- Page view (print preview)
- Starting the printout
Shared Resources for Multiple Projects
Creating and Applying a Project Template
Interaction Between Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office
- Exchanging data with Excel
- Exporting to Word
- Saving to the cloud (OneDrive)
Settings
- Project options
- Organizer
- Quick Access Toolbar
- Setting up the status bar
