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Microsoft Project

How to Create a Master and Sub-Projects in Microsoft Project

In this Microsoft Project tutorial, you’ll learn the basic steps for creating a master project–the container, and inserting the subprojects–the pieces that make it up. This lets us coordinate projects which are part of a bigger, “mega”-type project. Want to learn more about this and …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Project Management

How to Create a Resource Calendar in MS Project

The resource calendar in Project lets us take the resources’ non-work  time into account. There are religious, working-two-jobs, and a few other reasons why this might come into play. So once the project calendar is established, we can create a variation of it as a …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Project Management

How to Use the Organizer in Microsoft Project

The Organizer is one of the lesser-known features in Project. And it’s a shame that this one is overlooked. It can be a major help in both building templates and making already-built elements easily available. One common example is calendars. If you build a company …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

How to Create a Template in Microsoft Project

A template in Project, as in most other programs, is a blank form. We fill in the spaces, as on a tax form or license application. The more complex the job, the more complex the form. So when we’re managing a project, any help we …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

How to Use Summary Tasks in Microsoft Project

When we create a project plan, summary tasks are like the main points in a term paper outline. They mark off the highest-level things we need to do in the project. They’re the main stages or phases we look at. So they’re a useful tool …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

How to Create Calculated Fields in Microsoft Project

Project allows for things like calculated fields and other custom data. It holds some fields “in reserve” aside from the ones set up for task names, durations, etc. This way, users can insert data the program couldn’t know about in advance. (I mentioned custom text …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

How to Format the Gantt Chart in Project

Recently, I had a question about formatting the Gantt chart from a student who mentioned the issue of color-blindness. Since various kinds of this problem exist, knowing how to get around it can be helpful, just in case. As critical tasks are highlighted in red, …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

How to Create a Calendar in Project (and Why)

When setting up a plan in Project, it’s very important to get the calendar organized first, before adding tasks, resources, assignments, or almost anything else. Why? Because a project timeline dictates many of the scheduling details, and the calendar controls the schedule. Getting to the …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Project Management

How to Use the Critical Path in Microsoft Project

The use of the critical path in Project is a vital part of getting a project to finish on time. This is especially true if any juggling of the tasks, resources, and allocations has to happen once the majority of tasks are in place. It …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

Using Dependencies, Lag, and Lead in MS Project

Setting up dependencies, or task relationships, is an integral part of working in Project. But many newer users ask, Which relationship should I use, and What are these “lag” and “lead” things about? The choice of dependencies, as well as using the two other items, …

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