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    Microsoft Project Advanced

    Course Duration: One Day

    Target Audience:

    Aimed at Project Managers and Project Coordinators involved in initial setting up of and overall management of Microsoft Project templates and files.

    Course Objectives:

    To use the advanced features in Microsoft Project effectively to fine-tune templates and choose what project structure best suits the participant’s own controlling and reporting needs.

    Course Outline:

    Review of Project Basics

    • Review of Project Tasks
    • Task Dependencies
    • Lead and Lags
    • Task Types
    • Resource Assignment
    • Resource Over-Allocation
    • Setting Project Baselines
    • Update Task Progress

    Tasks

    • Splitting Tasks
    • Recurring Tasks
    • External Predecessors and External Successors
    • Hyperlinks to Web Pages or Related Files and Folders

    Timelines

    • Setting Multiple Timelines
    • Start and End Dates for Timelines

    Project Options

    • File, Change Default Setting for Project
    • Format, Project Summary Task
    • Format, Show Outline Numbers
    • Change the Date Format

    Master Projects

    • The Concept of Master Projects and When to Use Them
    • Insert projects into the Master Project
    • Linking to the Projects
    • Reports in a Master Project

    Shared Resources

    • Why use Shared Resources
    • The Resource Pool
    • Creating a Resource File
    • Sharing Resources
    • Approval of Resources
    • Resource View Plan
    • Opening Projects that Share Resources
    • Using Reports that Show Resources across Multiple Projects
    • Resource Over-Allocation

    Custom Tables and Views

    • Creating a Table (Inserting and Hiding Columns)
    • Creating a View
    • Applying the Table to a View

    Project Templates

    • What is a Project Template?
    • Creating a Template
    • Editing a Template
    • Using Templates

    Project Organiser

    • Copying items from Project to Project
    • Copying items from Project to Template
    • Toolbars
    • Menus
    • Calendars
    • Tables
    • Views
    • Filters
    • Reports

    Custom Filters

    • Creating a Filter
    • Filtering Using Calculations

    Custom Reports

    • Creating a Report
    • Changing Layout and Design

    Custom Calculated Fields

    • Creating Custom Fields
    • Calculated Custom Fields

    Printing

    • Headers and Footers
    • Using Project Fields in Headers and Footers
    • Compress Printing
    • Printing Layouts

    Discussion and Question Time

    • Recap of Topics Covered
    • Question Time
    • Discuss Participants’ own Projects
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