Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step

Carl S. Chatfield
Timothy D. Johnson

PUBLISHED BY
Microsoft Press
A Division of Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399

Copyright 2004 by Carl S. Chatfield and Timothy D. Johnson

All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chatfield, Carl S., 1964-
Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step / Carl Chatfield and Timothy Johnson.
p. cm. — (Step by step)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7356-1955-7
1. Microsoft Project. 2. Project management—Computer programs. I. Johnson, Timothy
D., 1962- II. Title. III. Step by step (Redmond, Wash.)

HD69.P75.C463 2003
658.4’04’02855369—dc22 2003058832

Printed and bound in the United States of America.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 QWE 8 7 6 5 4 3

Distributed in Canada by H.B. Fenn and Company Ltd.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Microsoft Press books are available through booksellers and distributors worldwide. For further information about international editions, contact your local Microsoft Corporation office or contact Microsoft Press International directly at fax [phone]. Visit our Web site at www.microsoft.com/mspress. Send comments to [e-mail].

Active Directory, Microsoft, Microsoft Press, the Office logo, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, Visual Basic, Windows, and Windows Server are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

The example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place, or event is intended or should be inferred.

Acquisitions Editor
Alex Blanton

Project Editor
Laura Sackerman

Body Part No. X10-00033

About the Authors

Carl S. Chatfield
Carl is the site manager for Project and FrontPage on Office Online (www.office.microsoft.com). Prior to his assignment to Office Online, Carl had worked on Office applications since 1991. Carl is also a technical communication instructor at the University of Washington. He is a graduate of the Masters program in Technical Communication at the University of Washington and has been certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute. He lives in Kirkland, Washington.

Timothy D. Johnson
Tim is a technical editor in the Project User Assistance team at Microsoft. Prior to joining the Project User Assistance team in 2000, he was a Project support professional for six years (going all the way back to Project 3.0—if you called Microsoft Product Support Services with a Project question, there’s a good chance you talked to Tim). Tim lives in Issaquah, Washington.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank our families for their patience while we developed this book. From Carl: thank you Rebecca, Alden, Lathan, and Mona. From Tim: thank you Ratsamy (Mimi), Brian, and Brenda.

The authors also wish to acknowledge the members of the Project Business Unit at Microsoft—Adrian Jenkins in particular—who provided valuable and timely answers to our technical questions.