Advanced Microsoft Project

Objectives: This course gives an in depth understanding of the features found in Microsoft Project.

Pre Requisites: An understanding of the basic features of Microsoft Project is recommended.

Duration: 1 day

The topics covered are as follows:

1 All about Calendars
• Base Calendars
• Resource Calendars
• Task Calendars
• How they interact

2 All about Fields
• Overview of Fields
• Working with Custom Fields
• Adding Fields to a Table
• Using Fields in other Projects

3 Scheduling Tasks
• Project Settings and Scheduling
• Task Duration and Scheduling
• Dependencies and Scheduling
• Constraints and Scheduling

4 Scheduling Resources
• What is Work
• Making Resource Assignments
• Editing Resource Assignments
• Using Work Contours
• Resource Availability

5 Material Resources
• Defining Material Resources
• Assigning Material Resources
• Editing Assignments
• Using Work Contours

6 All about Costing
• Set Rates for Resources
• Using the Accrue at setting
• Varying Rates for Resources
• Working Overtime
• Using Materials
• Fixed Costs

7 Tracking a Project
• Baselines and Interim Plans
• Saving a Baseline
• Recording Progress
• Monitoring Progress
• Tracking Work
• Reassigning Work
• Rescheduling Work
• Saving an Interim Plan

8 Importing Task Information
• Importing from Excel
• Defining the Import Map
• Importing the Data

9 Using Templates
• Saving an existing plan as a Template
• Using a Template

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