Microsoft Project 2000: For Intermediate Users

Overview/Description
Developing a new product, implementing a training program, creating a new marketing plan, starting a new business or even landscaping a yard are some of the complex projects that people deal with professionally and personally. Learning to manage the scope, time, cost, and quality of a project is essential. With this course you will learn to use Microsoft Project 2000 to fine-tune project schedules; customize tables, fields, groups, filters, views, and reports; use Project with other Microsoft Desktop applications, and use e-mail to distribute information.

Target Audience
Business professionals who have some knowledge of Microsoft Project 2000.

Expected Duration
This course, including the practice exercises, will take up to four hours to complete.

Objectives:

Fine-tuning a Project Schedule

  • Update tasks using the task bar
  • View critical paths
  • Identify indicator icons
  • View a resource list
  • Split the window with Resource Usage view
  • Set up a recurring task
  • Change phases and tasks
  • Change task constraints
  • Add lead and lag time
  • Decrease durations
  • Split tasks

    • Using Advanced Resource Management

  • Display resource conflicts
  • Replace a resource
  • Level resource assignments
  • Create cost rate tables
  • Apply cost rate tables to an assignment
  • Set the cost accrual
  • Contour resources
  • Share resources

    • Improving Your Productivity

  • Customize toolbars
  • Format text styles
  • Use the GanttChartWizard
  • Change details
  • Modify layout
  • Customize Gantt Chart graphics
  • Record a macro
  • Run a macro
  • Edit a macro
  • Export Project data to a Microsoft Access database
  • Import a task list from Microsoft Excel
  • Copy and paste from a Gantt Chart to a Microsoft Word document
  • Copy a picture of a view and save it as a Web page
  • Copy and paste sheet information into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

    • Presenting and Sharing Your Project Schedule

  • Create a report
  • Customize a report
  • Change report margins
  • Create a custom report
  • Add a header and footer to a report
  • Add a border to a report
  • Add a legend to a view
  • Use the Organizer
  • Post a schedule to a public folder
  • Send a Project file using e-mail
  • Add e-mail addresses to a resource list
  • Send notification of task assignments and updates
  • Set task reminders


    • Course Number: MOFF0152