Features and Conventions of This Book

Overview

This book has been designed to lead you step-by-step through all the tasks you are most likely to want to perform in Microsoft Office Project 2007. If you start at the beginning and work your way through all the exercises, you will gain enough proficiency to be able to create and work with Project files. However, each topic is self contained. If you have worked with a previous version of Project, or if you completed all the exercises and later need help remembering how to perform a procedure, the following features of this book will help you look up specific tasks in Project 2007:

• Detailed table of contents. Get an overview of which topics are discussed in which chapters.

• Chapter thumb tabs. Easily open the book at the beginning of the chapter you want.

• Topic-specific running heads. Within a chapter, quickly locate the topic you want by looking at the running head of odd-numbered pages.

• Quick Reference. Refresh your memory about a task while working with your own documents.

• Detailed index. Look up specific tasks and features in the index, which has been carefully crafted with the reader in mind.

• Companion CD. Use to install the practice files needed for the step-by-step exercises, but also as a source of other useful information, including an online, searchable version of this book.

In addition, we provide a glossary of terms for those times when you need to look up the meaning of a word or the definition of a concept.

You can save time when you use this book by understanding how the Step by Step series shows special instructions, keys to press, buttons to click, and so on.