Microsoft Office Project 2003 Inside Out

Teresa Stover

Award-winning author and instructional designer

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Copyright 2004 by Teresa Stover

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stover, Teresa S.
                               Microsoft Office Project 2003 Inside Out / Teresa Stover.
                                         p. cm.
                               Includes index.
                               ISBN 0-7356-1958-1
                               1. Microsoft Project. 2. Project management--Computer programs. I. Title.

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Acknowledgments

It takes a great team to put out a great book, and I've been fortunate to work with the very best. I'm genuinely grateful to the good people at Microsoft Press: Dick Brown, Alex Blanton, Barbara Moreland, and Sandra Haynes.

For her first-rate editing talents, I'm indebted to Nancy Sixsmith of ConText Editorial Services. I'm sincerely grateful for the brainpower and user advocacy of technical editor Brian Kennemer (MVP) of QuantumPM, who checked, clarified, and confirmed everything, especially the finer points.

For their exceptional ability to communicate their expertise, I thank contributors James Scott and Steve Adams. ( Please read more about them in "About the Authors" following the Index.) Many thanks also to Bonnie Biafore and Ken Speer for their fine contributions to the previous edition of the book.

Thanks as well to my persistent supporters at Moore Literary Agency: Claudette Moore and Debbie McKenna.

A thousand thanks to my blessed life preservers ”my unique community of friends and family who keep me balanced and smiling. Thanks most of all to Craig Stover for his steady support and brilliant flashes of insight, and for helping me find Internet cafes to continue work on the book during our grand tour of England.

About the Authors

Teresa S. Stover       is a technical communications consultant who specializes in Microsoft Project and project management. As the owner of Stover Writing Services since 1987, she manages documentation projects for multiple clients, including Apple Computer, National Semiconductor, Boeing, MetLife, Unisys, and most significantly, the Microsoft Project User Assistance team. For these clients , she has developed books, online help, tutorials, and multimedia productions . Having won seven Society for Technical Communications awards, including a Best In Show, Teresa's other books include titles on Windows, Office, Team Manager, and Microsoft Money. When not writing in her Victorian home office in southern Oregon, Teresa conducts workshops on computer, business, and project management topics. She is also a disaster volunteer for the American Red Cross and "plays store" most Saturdays at her husband's shop, Stovepipe Antiques. Teresa can be reached at [e-mail].

James A. Scott       is a rare case of a history major done good. A strong fascination with computer technology and software development quickly pulled him back from the dark side in the mid-1990s and led him down the path toward technical writing. Since then, he has been involved with technical writing, creating Web sites (both copy and code), working with XML when it was almost brand new, and finding ways to enjoy being handed increasingly difficult subjects to write about. During off-times, James can usually be found somewhere in the vicinity of a football (soccer) field.

Stephen T. Adams       has been writing Basic since it was an acronym, back in the 1970s. Originally training to be an intelligence analyst with the CIA, he changed directions in 1990 and began a career in the software industry. He has worked in product support, in software testing, and as both an editor and a writer, publishing his first book in 1992. Steve was an award-winning technical writer for Microsoft Project from 1996 until 2002, when he took a developer position at Microsoft. An avid auto racing fan, Steve can occasionally be found tearing it up at the local track, where he likes to pretend he's the next Ayrton Senna.

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