Chapter Eleven Review

Lesson Summary

Opening a Report

To Choose a Report Type: Select View Select, and then select a report and click Select.

Adding Page Elements to a Report

To Add Page Elements to a Report: Open a report. In Print Preview, click the Page Setup button. In the Page Setup dialog box, use the various tabs to add page elements to your report.

Sorting a Report

To Sort a Report: Select a report and click the Edit button. If the report is sortable, the Task Reports dialog box will appear. Click the Sort tab, select your sorting options, and click OK. Click the Select button to preview your sorted report.

Defining Report Contents

To Define Report Contents: Select a report and click the Edit button. If the report is definable, the Task Reports dialog box will appear. Click the Definition tab, select your definition options, and click OK. Click the Select button to preview your defined report.

Saving a Project as a Web Page:

To Save a Project as a Web Page: Select File Save button. Follow the Export Wizard and enter the required information, and then click Finish when you're done.

Quiz

1. Which of these is NOT a report category?

   1. Work Activities

   2. Costs

   3. Assignments

   4. Overview

2. The Custom button in the Reports dialog box doesn't contain predefined reports. (True or False?)

3. In some Project predefined reports, _____ is the only thing you can modify.

   1. text

   2. content

   3. workload

   4. page numbering

4. To open the Reports dialog box, go to _____ _____.

5. Format Reports

6. Reports

7. Reports

8. Reports

1. totalitarian or democratic

2. ascending or descending

3. alphabetical or numerical

4. cost variation or work variation

Project offers you 22 ______ _____ to work with.

1. report categories

2. report formats

3. predefined reports

4. practice reports

Which of these Page Setup tabs is not accessible when you add page elements to a report?

1. Legend

2. Footers

3. Margins

4. Page

You can make changes to a report in Print Preview. (True or False?)

Homework

1. Navigate to your practice files and open the Homework 11 project file.

2. Select View Reports from the menu to open the Reports dialog box and identify the five report category buttons. What does the sixth button do?

3. Define the Resource Usage report so that the time period is in days instead of weeks. The Resource Usage report is in the Workload report category.

4. Sort the Who Does What report so that it is sorted by ID, then by Baseline Finish, both in descending order. The Who Does What report is in the Assignment report category.

5. Add the baseline finish date to the footer in the "Tasks in Progress" report. The "Tasks in Progress" report is in the Current Activities report category.

6. View the Cash Flow report in Print Preview.

7. Close the Homework 11 file.

Quiz Answers

1. A. Work Activities is not a report category; the five report categories are: Overview, Current Activities, Costs, Assignments, and Workload.

2. True. The Custom button in the Reports dialog box does not contain predefined reports, because it is used to create new custom reports.

3. A. In some Project predefined reports, text is the only thing you can modify.

4. B. To open the Reports dialog box, go to View Reports.

5. C. Project offers you 22 predefined reports to work with.

6. A. The Legend and View tabs are not accessible when you add page elements to a report.

7. False. You can't make changes to a report in Print Preview.