Microsoft Project is a great tool that provides real benefits while planning and managing a project. This has been the case for a number of years, Microsoft got the basics right with version 4 in 1994. Since version 4 many of the developments and new features in Project have been devised to give the user greater control over how they choose to manage their projects. This 'Making MS Project Work for You' course is a one day advanced course that considers how you can take greater control of Microsoft Project and thus your projects.
The course considers how Project schedules tasks when more than one resource has been assigned by tackling the complex issue of 'Task Types'. It looks at how you can model workloads and also track progress precisely using assignments and work contours. Customisation of Project is considered. We cover how Project can be tweaked so it looks and feels how you want it to, rather than how Microsoft thought you wanted it. We will also look at atomisation, which can improve productivity and accuracy through the use of macros and custom fields. Finally we investigate how to integrate Project with other packages to allow all the information about your project to be tied together.
- Advanced resources
- Working with deferent types of task
- Making the effort drive the task
- Contouring resource availability
- Grouping
- Introduction to grouping
- Applying groups
- Defining groups
- Exporting and importing data
- File formats
- Previous versions of MS Project
- Export and import maps
- Data Linking
- Object linking and embedding (OLE)
- Linking data
- Object embedding
- Customising MS Project
- Customising a table
- Customising a view
- Creating a custom filter
- Creating a custom report
- Sorting tasks and resources
- Customising a toolbar
- Custom fields
- Customising field names
- Custom field options
- Graphical indicators
- Applying formulas
- WBS code structures
- Macros
- Introduction to macros
- Recording a macro
- Assigning a macro to the toolbar
- Introduction to VBA