Sams teach yourself Microsoft Project 2000 in 24 hours / Tim Pyron.
Material type: TextSeries: Sams teach yourself in 24 hoursPublication details: Indianapolis, Ind. ; [Great Britain] : Sams, c2000.Description: xvii, 566 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Microsoft Project saves you time and money by scheduling and tracking critical projects. Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Project 2000 in 24 teaches you exactly what they need to know in a small amount of time.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Is This the Book for You? (p. 1)
- How This Book Is Organized (p. 2)
- Conventions Used in This Book (p. 3)
- Part I Getting Started with a Project (p. 5)
- Hour 1 Getting Started with Microsoft Project 2000 (p. 7)
- The Life Cycle of a Project (p. 8)
- Using Project 2000's Tutorials and Help Features (p. 10)
- Exploring the Microsoft Project Window (p. 14)
- Understanding Views (p. 17)
- Exiting Microsoft Project 2000 (p. 22)
- Summary (p. 22)
- QandA (p. 23)
- Exercises (p. 23)
- Hour 2 Becoming an Instant Project Guru (p. 25)
- Practicing with a Sample File (p. 26)
- Understanding What You See (p. 27)
- Working with the Timeline (p. 32)
- Working with the Task Table (p. 37)
- Viewing More Task Details (p. 43)
- Summary (p. 46)
- QandA (p. 47)
- Exercises (p. 47)
- Hour 3 Starting a New Project and Working with Tasks (p. 49)
- Things to Do When Starting a New Project File (p. 50)
- Starting a New Project File (p. 50)
- Starting the Task List (p. 56)
- Editing the Task List (p. 58)
- Arranging Tasks with an Outline (p. 61)
- Entering Recurring Tasks (p. 65)
- Copying a Task List from Another Application (p. 68)
- Getting a Simple Printout of the Task List (p. 69)
- Saving the New File (p. 69)
- Summary (p. 71)
- QandA (p. 71)
- Exercises (p. 72)
- Part II Developing a Timeline (p. 73)
- Hour 4 Starting the Scheduling Process (p. 75)
- Understanding How Default Dates Work (p. 76)
- Understanding How Tasks are Scheduled (p. 78)
- Setting the Start or Finish Date for the Project (p. 81)
- Estimating Task Duration (p. 83)
- Summary (p. 89)
- QandA (p. 89)
- Exercises (p. 89)
- Hour 5 Defining When Project Can Schedule Tasks (p. 91)
- Elements of Project Scheduling (p. 92)
- Adjusting the Default Working Day (p. 92)
- How Calendars Are Used in Scheduling (p. 93)
- Creating and Applying Base Calendars for Special Scheduling Needs (p. 99)
- Managing Your Calendars (p. 102)
- Summary (p. 105)
- QandA (p. 106)
- Exercises (p. 106)
- Hour 6 Linking Tasks in the Correct Sequence (p. 109)
- Linking Tasks (p. 110)
- Creating and Modifying Task Links (p. 116)
- Working with the Automatic Linking Option (p. 123)
- Reviewing Your Task Links (p. 124)
- Summary (p. 125)
- QandA (p. 125)
- Exercises (p. 126)
- Hour 7 Working with Deadlines and Constraints (p. 127)
- Working with Constraints (p. 128)
- Resolving Conflicts Caused by Constraints (p. 134)
- Splitting Tasks (p. 137)
- Recording Deadlines (p. 140)
- Summary (p. 143)
- QandA (p. 143)
- Exercise (p. 144)
- Part III Displaying and Printing Your Schedule (p. 145)
- Hour 8 Working with Other Task Views (p. 147)
- Exploring the Calendar View (p. 148)
- Moving Around in the Calendar View (p. 150)
- Using Filters to Clarify the Calendar View (p. 152)
- Viewing Task Details in Calendar View (p. 152)
- Editing a Project in the Calendar View (p. 153)
- Exploring the Network Diagram View (p. 155)
- Zooming the Network Diagram View (p. 157)
- Viewing Outline Levels in the Network Diagram (p. 158)
- Applying Filters to the Network Diagram (p. 159)
- Scrolling and Selecting in the Network Diagram (p. 159)
- Editing a Project in the Network Diagram (p. 161)
- Summary (p. 166)
- QandA (p. 166)
- Exercises (p. 167)
- Hour 9 Formatting Views (p. 169)
- Using the General Format Options (p. 170)
- Special Formatting for the Gantt Chart (p. 176)
- Special Formatting for the Calendar (p. 184)
- Special Formatting for the Network Diagram (p. 186)
- Summary (p. 189)
- QandA (p. 189)
- Exercises (p. 190)
- Hour 10 Finalizing and Printing Your Schedule (p. 191)
- Checking for Spelling Errors (p. 192)
- Printing Views (p. 194)
- Printing the Overview Reports (p. 206)
- Summary (p. 209)
- QandA (p. 209)
- Exercises (p. 210)
- Part IV Assigning Resources and Costs to the Tasks (p. 213)
- Hour 11 Defining Resources and Costs (p. 215)
- Improving the Accuracy of the Schedule (p. 216)
- Controlling Costs (p. 218)
- Defining Your Resources and Costs (p. 219)
- Creating the Resource Pool (p. 222)
- Using the Assign Resources Dialog Box to List Resources (p. 223)
- Using the Resource Sheet (p. 224)
- Using the Resource Information Dialog Box (p. 230)
- Printing the Resource Pool (p. 236)
- Summary (p. 236)
- QandA (p. 236)
- Exercises (p. 237)
- Hour 12 Mastering Resource Scheduling in Microsoft Project (p. 239)
- Choosing to Enter Resource Assignments (p. 240)
- Defining the Resource Assignment Fields (p. 241)
- Understanding the Work Formula (p. 246)
- Using the Task Type to Control Calculations (p. 248)
- Applying the Work Formula in a Material Resource Assignment (p. 255)
- Assigning Multiple Resources To a Task (p. 257)
- Understanding How Project Calculates Effort-Driven Tasks (p. 258)
- Summary (p. 260)
- QandA (p. 261)
- Exercises (p. 261)
- Hour 13 Assigning Resources and Costs to Tasks (p. 263)
- An Overview of Creating Assignments (p. 263)
- Choosing the Task Settings for Assignments (p. 264)
- Assigning Resources to Tasks (p. 266)
- Assigning Resources with the Task Form (p. 266)
- Using the Assign Resources Dialog Box (p. 271)
- Assigning Fixed Costs and Fixed Resource Fees (p. 279)
- Summary (p. 282)
- QandA (p. 283)
- Exercises (p. 284)
- Hour 14 Editing Resource Assignments (p. 285)
- Working with the Task Usage View (p. 286)
- Editing Assignments with the Task Usage View (p. 288)
- Editing Assignments with the Assignment Information Dialog Box (p. 289)
- Changing the Cost Rate Table for an Assignment (p. 291)
- Introducing Delay in an Assignment (p. 291)
- Splitting Tasks and Task Assignments (p. 296)
- Contouring Resource Assignments (p. 300)
- Assigning Overtime Work (p. 303)
- Understanding the Effects of Changing Task Duration (p. 311)
- Summary (p. 311)
- QandA (p. 311)
- Exercises (p. 312)
- Hour 15 Resolving Resource Allocation Problems (p. 313)
- How Do Resource Overallocations Happen? (p. 314)
- Identifying Overallocated Resources (p. 315)
- Eliminating Resource Overallocations (p. 320)
- Letting Project Level Overallocated Assignments (p. 332)
- Summary (p. 337)
- QandA (p. 338)
- Exercises (p. 338)
- Part V Finalizing and Publishing Your Plan (p. 341)
- Hour 16 Fine-Tuning the Project Plan (p. 343)
- Looking at the Big Picture (p. 344)
- Filtering Tasks or Resources (p. 349)
- Sorting and Grouping Tasks and Resources (p. 354)
- Shortening the Critical Path (p. 361)
- Reducing Costs (p. 364)
- Summary (p. 366)
- QandA (p. 366)
- Exercises (p. 367)
- Hour 17 Printing Resource Details and Customizing Reports (p. 369)
- Formatting and Printing the Usage Views (p. 370)
- Working with Cost Reports (p. 373)
- Working with the Assignment Reports (p. 375)
- Using the Workload Reports (p. 376)
- Customizing the Standard Reports (p. 377)
- Customizing Specific Report Types (p. 382)
- Summary (p. 390)
- QandA (p. 390)
- Exercises (p. 391)
- Hour 18 Creating Custom Views (p. 393)
- Creating Custom Tables (p. 394)
- Creating Custom Views (p. 399)
- Creating Custom Fields (p. 403)
- Summary (p. 406)
- QandA (p. 407)
- Exercises (p. 407)
- Hour 19 Publishing Projects on the Web or an Intranet (p. 409)
- Overview of Project 2000's Internet Features (p. 410)
- Navigating with Hyperlinks (p. 411)
- Exporting Project Data to Web Pages (p. 411)
- Defining Import/Export Map HTML Options (p. 414)
- Working with Hyperlinks in Tasks and Resources (p. 423)
- Publishing Your Web Documents (p. 426)
- Summary (p. 426)
- QandA (p. 427)
- Exercises (p. 427)
- Hour (p. 429)
- Part VI Mnaaging and Tracking Your Project (p. 429)
- Hour 20 Tracking Work on the Project (p. 431)
- Using Project as a Management Tool (p. 432)
- Understanding the Tracking Fields (p. 433)
- Setting the Baseline (p. 436)
- Tracking Actual Performance (p. 439)
- Summary (p. 451)
- QandA (p. 451)
- Exercises (p. 452)
- Hour 21 Analyzing Progress and Revising the Schedule (p. 453)
- Analyzing Variances and Revising the Schedule (p. 454)
- Analyzing Progress (p. 455)
- Updating the Schedule (p. 465)
- Revising the Schedule to Finish on Time and on Budget (p. 468)
- Summary (p. 470)
- QandA (p. 470)
- Exercises (p. 471)
- Part VII Beyond One Project, One Application (p. 473)
- Hour 22 Working with Multiple Projects (p. 475)
- Consolidating Projects into One Window (p. 476)
- Consolidating Inserted Projects (p. 478)
- Sharing Resources among Projects with a Resource Pool (p. 486)
- Summary (p. 491)
- QandA (p. 491)
- Exercises (p. 493)
- Hour 23 Using Microsoft Project in Workgroups (p. 495)
- Exploring Project's Workgroup Features (p. 496)
- Deciding on Email, Intranet, or Internet Workgroup Communications (p. 497)
- Setting Up Project Messaging (p. 498)
- Sending Task Requests with TeamAssign (p. 500)
- Requesting and Submitting Task Progress with TeamStatus (p. 505)
- Sending Task Updates with TeamUpdate (p. 506)
- Setting Task Reminders (p. 508)
- Circulating the Project Schedule for Review (p. 508)
- Sending Schedule Notes (p. 510)
- Summary (p. 511)
- QandA (p. 512)
- Exercises (p. 512)
- Hour 24 Exchanging Project Data with Other Applications (p. 513)
- File Formats Supported by Microsoft Project 2000 (p. 514)
- Exporting Project 2000 Data to Older Releases of Microsoft Project (p. 516)
- Saving the Entire Project in a Database (p. 518)
- Using Import/Export Maps to Exchange Project Data with Other File Formats (p. 522)
- Copying Selected Data between Applications (p. 528)
- Linking Selected Data Between Applications (p. 533)
- Summary (p. 534)
- QandA (p. 534)
- Exercises (p. 535)