List of Inside Out Tips

About the CD

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Chapter 1: Introducing 2003Microsoft Project

Inside Out: Goal-based Help has disappeared

Chapter 2: Understanding Project Projects and Management

Inside Out: Microsoft Project and the project management disciplines

Inside Out: Project support for customers and end users

Chapter 3: Starting a New Project

Inside Out: Beware of scheduling from the finish date

Inside Out: Don't fill in the Start and Finish fields

Chapter 4: Viewing Project Information

Inside Out: Add your favorite views to the View menu

Inside Out: Don't accidentally renumber tasks when sorting

Inside Out: Not always the default view

Chapter 5: Scheduling Tasks

Inside Out: PERT analysis and critical path method

Inside Out: Adjust PERT analysis weighting

Inside Out: Link in or out of order

Inside Out: Beware of entering dates

Inside Out: Conflicts between dependencies and constraints

Inside Out: A deadline might affect scheduling after all

Inside Out: Misleading milestone markers

Chapter 6: Setting Up Resources in the Project

Inside Out: Base calendar for multiple resources

Chapter 7: Assigning Resources to Tasks

Inside Out: Max units vs. assignment units

Inside Out: Missing resource filters

Inside Out: Specify a variable consumption rate

Chapter 8: Planning Resource and Task Costs

Inside Out: Specify overtime work yourself

Chapter 9: Checking and Adjusting the Project Plan

Inside Out: Alternatives to the Gantt Chart Wizard

Inside Out: Project's prime directive

Inside Out: No clue about overallocations in task views

Inside Out: Resource leveling on demand

Inside Out: Priorities apply only to resource leveling and substitution

Inside Out: Rein in the extent of resource leveling

Inside Out: Delay in projects scheduled from the finish date

Chapter 10: Saving a Baseline and Updating Progress

Inside Out: Do we need interim plans any more?

Chapter 11: Responding to Changes in Your Project

Inside Out: Variances calculated from scheduled values

Inside Out: Relieve the leveling hair-trigger

Chapter 12: Reporting Project Information

Inside Out: The date and time printed

Inside Out: The Report Project Guide for views, not reports

Inside Out: Reports are not "saved"

Inside Out: Decipher subtables in a report

Inside Out: The voluminous Who Does What When report

Inside Out: Reports can't be e-mailed

Chapter 13: Analyzing Project Information

Inside Out: Overwrite Excel format

Chapter 14: Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools

Inside Out: Is the subproject read-only or isn't it?

Inside Out: Where did all these assignments come from?

Inside Out: The resource pool and system performance

Chapter 15: Exchanging Information Between Project Plans

Inside Out: Change a link: open, close, and open

Chapter 16: Exchanging Information with Other Applications

Inside Out: Paste directly into a Word table

Inside Out: Bury an object in a form

Inside Out: Data Access Pages are defunct

Chapter 17: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Excel

Inside Out: Remove the SNET constraints

Chapter 18: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Outlook

Inside Out: Phasing out e-mail workgroup messaging

Chapter 19: Collaborating Using E-Mail

Inside Out: E-mail workgroup messaging on its way out

Chapter 22: Managing Enterprise Projects and Resources

Inside Out: Tracking progress? Don't substitute resources

Chapter 24: Making Executive Decisions Using Project Web Access

Inside Out: Don't model resources on live data

Chapter 25: Customizing Your View of Project Information

Inside Out: Tired of clicking More Views?

Inside Out: Change the table and view definition

Inside Out: No way to set an overall default font style

Inside Out: Stack the Gantt bars

Inside Out: Determine what the Resource Graph shows

Inside Out: Permanent changes to table definition

Inside Out: Lock the first column for scrolling

Inside Out: Different "groups" in Microsoft Project

Inside Out: Custom toolbars apply to the entire application

Chapter 29: Managing Project Files

Inside Out: Your project file size has ballooned

Inside Out: Turn off the autosave prompt

Inside Out: Don't send your proprietary project

Chapter 31: Writing Microsoft Project Code with Visual Basic for Applications

Inside Out: Not everything is in the object model

Chapter 32: Working with Microsoft Project Data

Inside Out: How duration field values are stored

Inside Out: No Data Access Pages for Project 2003