MS Project: Tracking Progress and Formatting Plan
Course Duration: 90 Minutes
Target Audience:
All employees of organisations who engage in projects and who would benefit from having a detailed understanding of how projects are best planned, executed, monitored and controlled to ensure a successful outcome.
Course Objectives:
This topic will cover additional task options within a project, understand task types, and tracking your tasks during the project lifecycle. It will also cover formatting and some customising to display information with effect.
Course Outline:
Course Introduction
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Recap on Microsoft Project Set-Up
Planning with Microsoft Project
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Entering Recurring Tasks and Splitting Tasks
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Attaching Notes and Hyperlinks to Tasks
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Adding Time Constraints
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Setting Deadlines
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Using Task Types
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Formatting Milestones, Text and Bars
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Displaying Outline Tasks
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Showing Outline Numbers
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Grouping Tasks
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Filtering Tasks
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Marking Tasks On-Track
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Updating Tasks
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Updating Task Status (On Schedule, Late)
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Displaying the Critical Path
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Printing the Project and Setting Page Layouts (Headers / Footers / Legends)