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Microsoft Project

Using the Cost Tables in Microsoft Project

The Cost Tables feature in Microsoft Project reflects a point which is particular to this program—it is, basically, time-sensitive. Since a business project takes a minimum, usually, of several weeks to run, the project must take time into account. And, no pun intended on this …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project Keyboard Shortcuts

SkillForge SkillSheet Microsoft Project 2010/13/16 Keyboard Shortcuts Click here to download the PDF version.   Navigate Views and Windows In order to… Press Activate the Control menu ALT+SPACEBAR Activate the entry bar to edit text in a field F2 Activate the menu bar F10 or ALT …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Project 2013 Training, Microsoft Project 2016, Project Management

Creating Cost Resources in Microsoft Project

There’s a quirky thing about Microsoft Project, having to do with resources—more specifically, Cost resources. The other two types, Work and Material, are pretty easy to understand and use, but Cost takes a little bit of extra work to make do its thing. A Work …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

How to Create Subprojects in Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project was designed with the idea that one might need to set up subprojects, or projects within projects. Think of a set of manuals, or a company-wide reworking of hardware and software, or a movie (such as Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy). …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project

The Resource Usage View in Project

When planning a project, one of the problems we run into fairly commonly is overallocation of resources. It’s not impossible to fix, but it sometimes helps to know exactly where the overallocation is. The Resource Usage view is one place we can see it fairly …

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Categories Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Project 2016

Auto vs Manual Scheduling in Project

One small but important feature in MS Project is the Auto versus Manual Scheduling popup. It’s in the Status Bar at bottom. Here’s how it works: Manual Scheduling allows the user to control start date, finish date, and therefore, duration. And the program will not …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Project 2013 Training, Microsoft Project 2016

Using Effort Driven in Project

Microsoft Project is fairly easy to use at the basic level–entering tasks and resources, assigning one to the other, scheduling. But there are a few parts of the program that can take a little practice to use comfortably. One of these is the checkmark in …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Project 2016

Microsoft Project: Formatting a Gantt Chart for Summary Task

Recently a student posed a question during a Microsoft Project class. How does one format the bars of a Gantt chart to look the same for each unique summary task? Something that may look like this. It begins with creating a custom flag field for …

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Categories Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project 2010

Changing Microsoft Projects Default Task Duration

In a recent Microsoft Project class a question arose concerning the default task duration, which is set in days. This student had recently been working on a deployment project and the default duration was too broad. It needed to focus on a smaller time-frame and …

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Categories Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project 2010, Project Management

Project – Change Currency Styles in Costs

If you’re used to changing the way currency values are displayed in Excel, you might want to exercise the same choices when viewing costs in Microsoft Project.  Although changing the look of costs can be done in Project, it’s not as immediately obvious as to how.

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