Microsoft Office Project 2007 Training Course
Starting and completing projects is vital in today's business. Each project fulfills an individual or corporate goal and each project comprises a series of related tasks that culminate in a project
deliverable. Microsoft Office Project 2007 training course teaches you to utilize this comprehensive tool for project managers who are responsible for the overall design of projects. Enabling them to engage in task
assignment and management, resource allocation, costs, and budget control in an easy and intuitive way.
With Microsoft Office Project, project managers can define how project data is recorded, reported, and displayed, using customizable, built-in templates. They can also customize the interface by adding or removing
tools from the applications default tool bars. And before project data is distributed, a project manager can format fields and views to meet particular needs. Additionally, if you need to modify information
associated with tasks and resources, create custom tables, or create a work breakdown structure, Microsoft Project provides a flexible, all-encompassing solution. Our training course will cover basics to the
advanced levels of using this powerful software
Tutorials Include
- Available in Online ( One year unlimited access) or interactive CD
- Microsoft Authorized Training
- Used by 1000's of companies
- Includes interactive simulations to practice - Microsoft Office software not required
- Printable transcripts of all lessons
- Review questions - to test ones understanding of the material
- Beginner to Advance Levels
Introduction
Creating and Designing a Project
- Features of projects
- Project management phases and their descriptions
- Turn the project guide on or off
- Access views
- Match reports with their descriptions
- Help in project 2007
- Create a new project
- Define a project
- General work times
- Create and save a new project
- Create a new project from a template
- Define general work times
- Create a task list
- Set a task's duration
- Characteristics of milestone tasks
- Create a project structure
- Task dependency link
- Characteristics of task dependencies
- Creating a recurring task
- Add information and hyperlink to a task
- Impose a constraint
- Create a task dependency link between two tasks
Specifying and Assigning Resources
- Add a work resource
- Add a material resource
- Set the working time for a resource
- Work resource to a task
- Work resource
- Specify working hours
- Assign a resource to a task
- Change the task type
- Apply a contour to a task
- Level a resource
- What resources have been over allocated
- Add a cost for a resource
- Costs that need to be fixed
- Add a cost for a resource
- Project resources in a given scenario
Tracking and Reporting Progress
- Create a baseline for a project
- Create an interim plan
- Clear a baseline
- Functions of the tracking tools
- Tracing a Project
- Check the progress of a project
- Display progress lines
- Create a baseline for an entire project
- Prepare a project for tracking
- Track the progress of a project
- Identify the available reporting options
- Select a view
- Select a report
- Change the information in a view
- Change the appearance of the gantt chart view
- Recognize the reasons for identifying the critical path
- Format a report for printing
- Set up and print a report or view
- Print options available from the print current view wizard
- Use a filter to change a view
- Preview a report
- Print a report
- Best practices for tracking and reporting on a project
Microsoft Project Advanced Level
Advance Customization
- Default settings
- Custom toolbar
- Project Global template Customization
- Conditions for customizing the Enterprise Global template
- Save as a template
- Add a custom field
- Custom forms
- Toolbar customization
- Custom fields
- Project Global template
- Information to tasks
- Custom information
- Table Customization
- WBS codes
- New WBS code creation
- Task information
- Custom tables
Project Data Management and Performance
- Import data
- Task list import
- Export data
- Basic sorting options
- Advanced sort
- Apply a filter
- Custom group
- Sort information
- Apply a group
- Update work for a project
- Update start and finish dates
- Actual and remaining duration
- Percentages for a task
- Purpose of cost tables
- Update costs
- Set start and finish dates
- Set a project's duration
- Costs for a project
- Sub-projects for a consolidated project
- Consolidate a project
- Options for saving a consolidated project
- Critical paths for subprojects
- Resource pool
- Disable a resource pool
- External dependency
- Subproject creation
- Create a resource pool
- Consolidated project
- Create external dependencies
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