Course duration
- 16.0 hours
Course Benefits
- Learn to create and manage simple projects.
- Learn to enter and manage tasks.
- Learn to work with a project calendar.
- Learn to add and manage project resources and work with the resource sheet.
- Learn to create basic reports for your project.
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access to an On-Demand course.
Course Outline
- Components of a Project
- Project Components
- Demo and Exercise Projects Used in This Course
- Demo Case Study
- Exercise Case Study
- Getting around Microsoft Project 2013
- Starting Project
- The Ribbon
- Tabs
- Groups
- Commands
- Hiding the Ribbon
- The Backstage View
- Save, Save as, Open, Close
- Info
- Recent
- New
- Save & Send
- Help
- Options
- Exit
- Tour of the Quick Access Toolbar
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
- Basic Formatting
- Clipboard Group
- Calendars
- Project Calendar Start Date
- Setting Project to Auto Schedule New Tasks
- Setting the Start Date
- Creating a Project Calendar
- Custom Project Calendars
- Connecting a Calendar to a Project
- Project Calendar Start Date
- Working with Tasks
- Creating a Task
- Creating Summary Tasks
- Entering Durations
- Scheduling Tasks
- Milestone Tasks
- Linking Tasks
- Adding Notes to Tasks
- Creating a Task
- Creating and Working with Resources
- The Resource Sheet
- Entering Work Resources
- Entering Material Resources
- Entering Cost Resources
- Assigning Resources to Tasks
- The Resource Sheet
- Managing a Project
- Viewing a Project
- Reviewing and Making Adjustments to a Project
- The Project Timeline
- The Project Calendar
- Adjusting Tasks
- Setting a Baseline
- Viewing the Baseline
- Recording Progress
- Reporting on Projects
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.