Course Outline 

The Project interface: Finding your way around

• The Backstage view: Managing files and setting options

• The ribbon and tabs: Finding the features you want

• Views: Working with schedule details the way you want

• Reports: Seeing project status in new ways

Starting a new plan

• Starting a new plan, and setting its start date

• Setting nonworking days in the project calendar

• Entering the plan’s title and other properties

Building a task list

• Entering task names

• Entering task duration

• Entering a milestone task

• Creating summary tasks to outline the plan

• Creating task dependencies with links

• Switching task scheduling from manual to automatic

• Checking the plan’s duration and finish date

• Documenting tasks with notes and hyperlinks

Setting up resources

• Entering work resource names

• Entering resources’ maximum capacity

• Entering resource pay rates

• Adjusting working time in a resource calendar

• Setting up cost resources

• Documenting resources with notes

Assigning resources to tasks

• Assigning work resources to tasks

• Controlling work when adding or removing resource assignments

• Assigning cost resources to tasks

• Checking the plan’s duration, cost, and work

Formatting and sharing your plan

• Customizing a Gantt Chart view

• Customizing a Timeline view

• Customizing reports

• Copying views and reports

• Printing views and reports

Tracking progress

• Saving a baseline of your plan

• Tracking a plan as scheduled through a specific date

• Entering a task’s completion percentage

• Entering actual values for tasks

• Advanced task scheduling

• See task relationships with Task Path

• Adjusting task link relationships

• Setting task constraints

• Interrupting work on a task

• Adjusting working time for individual tasks

• Control task scheduling with task types

Fine-tuning task details

• Entering deadline dates

• Entering fixed costs

• Setting up a recurring task

• Viewing the project’s critical path

• Scheduling summary tasks manually

Fine-tuning resource and assignment details

• Setting up resource availability to apply at different times

• Entering multiple pay rates for a resource

• Setting up resource pay rates to apply at different times

• Setting up material resources

• Delaying the start of assignments

• Applying contours to assignments

• Applying different pay rates to assignments

• Assigning material resources to tasks

• Viewing resource capacity