In Advanced Microsoft® Project Tools, you'll learn...
- Advanced techniques for importing and exporting data to and from your project
- How to connect to a Project Server
- How to set and take advantage of multiple project baselines
- How to completely customize columns in an existing table or create a new table from scratch
- The keys to creating custom views and reports
- Understanding Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
- And much more!
Are you ready to take your work to the next level? This workshop is designed for intermediate and advanced Microsoft Project users who want to maximize their knowledge of Project, push Project to its limits and take full advantage of its more advanced features. It provides cutting-edge tips on mastering Project’s amazing budgeting controls, reporting tools and tracking components you can’t get anywhere else. After just one intensive day, you’ll make the leap from being a mere Project user to being an acknowledged Project expert.
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Columns: Capabilities and limitations+
- The right way to modify columns in an existing table
- How to create a new table from scratch
- How to use existing tables
- How to add new column identifiers to your project using the Project Guide
- How to create a custom field using the Add Columns Wizard
Embedding, importing, exporting and linking data and files+
- How to embed objects and files from other applications into Microsoft Project
- Step-by-step procedures to import a file from another application
- How to export your Microsoft Project data to a database
- How to link external files to your project
- Creating and working with projects in the Enterprise
- Uploading a local project to a project server
Understanding “duration” vs. “effort” driven tasks+
- The relationship between effort and duration
- How to change the task type from effort-driven to duration-driven
- Understanding fixed units, fixed work and fixed duration
- Understanding what milestones are and how to set tasks as milestones
- An explanation of the constraints that can be used in project management
- How project constraints affect the schedule
Setting, saving and using multiple project baselines+
- Discovering the purpose of project baselines
- Setting and saving baselines
- Using baselines to keep your project on track
- Viewing multiple baselines to determine any project trends
Mastering reports and views+
- How to generate a custom report
- How to modify and view an existing report
- Uncover an easy way to make a custom view by modifying an existing view
- How to create a new view
- How to share custom reports among projects
- Step-by-step procedures for creating a custom crosstab report
Formatting text, bar styles, the timeline and gridlines in your project+
- Using the Gantt Chart Wizard
- How to quickly format the Major and Minor Timescales
- The right way to add Nonworking Time to your project
- How to change the formatting on the bars and bar styles
- Discover how to add Bar Text
- Uncover a quick technique for adding notes to task bars
PERT analysis and project tracking+
- How to set up and run a PERT analysis
- How to use a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Understanding Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
- How to analyze your project performance with EVA
- How to track variances
Maintaining project budget compliance+
- Getting the most out of the Overallocated Resources report
- How to view your project statistics
- How to view costs in the Budget report
- Viewing and printing Overbudget Tasks and Overbudget Resources reports
- Understanding how risk can affect the outcome of your project
- Steps to identify risk and its probability
