Microsoft Project Advanced

SECTION 1: Customizing Project
Lesson 1.1: Using Advanced Views
Using the Gantt Chart View
Using the Tracking Gantt View
Using the Network Diagram View
Adjusting Timescales
Changing Your Font
Practice Exercise
Lesson 1.2: Formatting the Gantt Chart
Formatting Individual Bars
Formatting Categories
Adding Text to Bars
Adding Text Boxes to a Chart
Practice Exercise
Lesson 1.3: Customizing How Project
Looks
Adding Menus
Customizing Menus
Showing and Hiding Toolbars
Customizing Toolbars
Creating Toolbars
Practice Exercise
Lesson 1.4: Setting Project Options
Setting General, View, and Editing
Options
Setting Calendar and Schedule Options
Setting Calculation and Spelling Options
Setting Save and Security Options
Setting Interface Options
Practice Exercise
Section 1: Review Questions
SECTION 2: Advanced Topics
Lesson 2.1: Tasks
Using Fixed Task Types
Modifying Fixed Tasks
Adding a Hyperlink to a Task
Using the Tracking Toolbar
Practice Exercise
Lesson 2.2: Using the Work Breakdown
Structure Code
Understanding the Work Breakdown
Structure Code
Assigning the WBS Code to Tasks
Creating a Custom WBS Code
Viewing the WBS Code
Practice Exercise
Lesson 2.3: Importing and Exporting
Files
Importing a File
Exporting a File
Using Custom Maps
Exporting a Gantt Chart
Practice Exercise
Lesson 2.4: Project and Other
Applications
Inserting Objects
Importing Data From Outlook
Exporting Data to Outlook
Saving Your Project as a Web Page
Practice Exercise
Section 2: Review Questions
SECTION 3: Analyzing Your Project
Lesson 3.1: Using PERT Analysis
Scenario Types
Using the PERT Toolbar
Entering PERT Values
Entering PERT Weights
Calculating PERT
Viewing Scenarios
Practice Exercise
Lesson 3.2: Earned Value Analysis
About Earned Value Analysis
Viewing Earned Value Analysis Tables
About Earned Value Fields
Reporting Earned Value Analysis
Practice Exercise
Lesson 3.3: Creating Progress Lines
Displaying a Progress Line
Interpreting a Progress Line
Editing or Removing the Progress Line
Formatting the Progress Line
Practice Exercise
Lesson 3.4: Tracking a Project s
Progress With the Project Guide
Using the Project Guide to Track
Progress
About Status Indicators
Using Filters to Track Tasks
Using Groups to Track Tasks
Practice Exercise
Section 3: Review Questions
SECTION 4: Working With Multiple Projects
Lesson 4.1: Microsoft Project Versions
Description of Microsoft Project 2003
Professional
Description of Microsoft Project Server
2003
Version Comparison
Practice Exercise
Lesson 4.2: Using Resource Pools
What is a Resource Pool?
Creating a Resource Pool
Linking a Project to a Resource Pool
Viewing Resource Pool Availability
Updating a Resource Pool
Unlinking a Project From the Resource
Pool
Practice Exercise
Lesson 4.3: Working With Multiple
Projects
Types of Multiple Projects
Inserting Subprojects
Unlinking or Removing Subprojects
Consolidating Projects
Consolidating Projects Using the New
Window Command
Using Project Workspaces
Practice Exercise
Lesson 4.4: Working With Multiple
Projects, Part 2
Viewing the Critical Path for a Master
Project
Saving Baselines for a Master Project
Saving Baselines for a Consolidated
Project
Viewing Subproject Information
Practice Exercise
Section 4: Review Questions