Project 2016: Configuring Project
Project 2016: Configuring Project
- Changing your document display
- Customizing the appearance
- Changing your document saving settings
- Personalizing the toolbar
- Personalizing the ribbon
Microsoft Project manages projects of all sizes, but you'll want to configure it to work the way you need it to. Discover how to configure Project, from document display and appearance to save settings, the toolbar, and the ribbon.
Project 2016: Illustrating Projects
Project 2016: Illustrating Projects
- Inserting shapes
- Moving shapes
- Changing the appearance of your shapes
- Applying effects to shapes
- Inserting images
- Modifying an image
- Editing your images
- Inserting links
Reports often help stakeholders who aren't directly involved in projects to understand their progress, so visuals are critical. Discover how to illustrate projects with shapes, images, and links.
Project 2016: Managing Project Resources
Project 2016: Managing Project Resources
- Adding resources to your project
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Using the Resource Graph
- Pooling your resources
- Leveling your resources
A project's lifeblood is its resources. Discover how to add resources to projects, assign resources to tasks, use the Resource Graph, and pool and level resources.
Project 2016: Managing Tasks
Project 2016: Managing Tasks
- Inserting a task
- Editing a task
- Inserting a recurring task
- Importing tasks from Outlook
- Inserting columns
- Creating dropdown menus within a column
- Using formulas to create custom fields
- Linking or splitting tasks
- Grouping tasks
- Adding Outline Numbers & WBS codes
- Defining & customizing WBS codes
- Sorting tasks
- Filtering tasks
- Using tables to reorganize your tasks
- Adding notes to your tasks
- Highlighting certain tasks
- Inserting subprojects
Tasks are a project's metrics that need to be tracked and monitored. Discover how to insert and edit tasks; insert columns; work with formulas; and link, split, sort, filter, and organize tasks.
Project 2016: Opening & Navigating
Project 2016: Opening & Navigating
- Finding & opening the application
- Exploring the interface
- Using the zoom function
- Moving between multiple documents
- Copying & pasting
- Finding & replacing
Microsoft Project is the gold standard for managing projects from the small to very large. Discover the Project interface, including zoom, navigation, copying and pasting, and finding and replacing.
Project 2016: Saving & Exporting
Project 2016: Saving & Exporting
- Saving your project
- Exporting your project
- Viewing & changing properties
- Modifying your page setup
- Printing a document
- Sending a document by email
- Sharing a document with OneDrive
- Comparing two projects
- Reusing your data in multiple projects
Project allows you to save and export projects in different formats. Discover how to export projects; modify page setup; print, email, and share documents; and compare and reuse project data.
Project 2016: Setting Up Projects
Project 2016: Setting Up Projects
- Creating a new project
- Understanding the structure of your project
- Using the built-in chart displays
- Changing display modes
- Managing your different display modes
- Using project templates
- Spell checking your projects
Start working on your first project. Discover how to create new projects, decipher project structure, work with displays, and work with templates.
Project 2016: Tracking Projects
Project 2016: Tracking Projects
- Using the timeline
- Adding a baseline to your project
- Tracking your project progress
- Tracking critical tasks
- Analyzing & configuring critical tasks
- Adding a milestone
- Using the task indicators
- Rescheduling your project
- Changing your scheduling settings
- Modifying your calendars
Project managers need to be able to track projects. Explore the timeline, adding baselines, tracking project progress and critical tasks, adding milestones, using task indicators, rescheduling, and modifying calendars.
Project 2016: Using & Formatting Gantt Charts
Project 2016: Using & Formatting Gantt Charts
- Formatting the text within your table
- Changing the appearance of your Gantt chart
- Formatting the bars in your Gantt chart
- Applying Bar Styles
- Displaying progress lines
- Drawing on your Gantt chart
Gantt charts are an invaluable project management visual aid. Discover how to format table text, change chart appearance, format bars, apply bar styles, display progress lines, and draw on Gantt charts.
Project 2016: Using Report Tools
Project 2016: Using Report Tools
- Generating reports from templates
- Creating a report
- Inserting text into reports
- Formatting text in your reports
- Changing the appearance of your report
Reports are an important component of every project, tracking progress and guiding direction. Explore Project's report tools and how to generate reports, from report templates to text insertion and formatting.
Project 2016: Visualizing Data in Charts & Tables
Project 2016: Visualizing Data in Charts & Tables
- Inserting a table
- Editing a table
- Formatting a table
- Inserting & editing a chart
- Adding information to a chart
- Formatting your chart
- Creating a PivotTable
- Creating a custom PivotTable
Data is extremely useful, but often you need to visualize the relationships laid out by the data. Discover how to visualize Project data, including working with and formatting tables, charts, and PivotTables.
