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About the CD

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Chapter 2: Understanding Project Projects and Management

Project Management Practices: Balancing and Integrating Competing Demands

Project Management Processes

Project Management Terminology

Chapter 3: Starting a New Project

Use the Define The Project Wizard

Calendars in Microsoft Project

Project Management Practices: Activity Definition

Tips for Entering Tasks

Chapter 4: Viewing Project Information

Learn More About Microsoft Project Fields

Built-in Task Groups

Built-in Resource Groups

Built-in Task Filters

Built-in Resource Filters

Learn More about Microsoft Project Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups

Chapter 5: Scheduling Tasks

Project Management Practices: Building in a Buffer

Project Management Practices: Real vs. Preferred Task Dependencies

Project Management Practices: Working with Date Constraints

Getting Scheduling Feedback

Chapter 6: Setting Up Resources in the Project

How Many Resources Do You Need?

Project Management Practices: Staffing Management

Estimate Resource Requirements Using Generic Resources

Add Resources Using the Project Guide

Allow for Non-Project Work

Identify Resource Skill Sets

Adding Initials of Assigned Resources to the Gantt Bar

Chapter 7: Assigning Resources to Tasks

Project Management Practices: Assigning the Right Resources to Tasks

Filtering for Resources

Defining a Resource Skill Set

Review Availability Graphs for Multiple Resources

Translate Duration to Work Amounts

Chapter 8: Planning Resource and Task Costs

Project Management Practices: Procurement Management

Update the exchange rate

Chapter 9: Checking and Adjusting the Project Plan

Sources of your project scope, finish date, and budget

Critical Path Method (CPM)

Working with Multiple Critical Paths

What if you have more time than needed for the project?

Project Management Practices: Duration Compression

Project Management Practices: The Right Resources for Critical Tasks

What if you have more money than you need?

Strategies for Reducing Resource Costs

What If You Have More Resources Than You Need for the Project?

Regular work, overtime work, and total work

Chapter 10: Saving a Baseline and Updating Progress

Are You a Charter or a Tracker?

Protecting Baseline Information

Project Management Practices: Working with the Baseline

Project Management Practices: Scope and Quality Verification

Turn Automatic Calculation On or Off

Tailoring Project Web Access Timesheet Fields

Using the Tracking Toolbar

Design a Custom Tracking View

Updating Progress Around the Status Date

Automate Tracking with Project Web Access

Protecting Actuals Information

Chapter 11: Responding to Changes in Your Project

Baseline, Scheduled, and Actual Project Information

Project Management Practices: Schedule Control

Review Status Indicators

Create a What-If Project

Project Management Practices: Cost Control

Need a New Baseline?

Chapter 12: Reporting Project Information

Project Management Practices: Communications Management

Page Setup Options

Interpret the Earned Value Figures

Reports That Identify Problems

More Built-in Reports

Chapter 13: Analyzing Project Information

Make Earned Value Tables and Views More Accessible

Your Earned Value Fields Are All $0.00

Change the Data Type in an Excel Column

Chapter 14: Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools

Work with subproject - related fields

What's the difference between a consolidated project and a master project?

Opening Multiple Project Files as a Set

The Enterprise Resource Pool

Chapter 15: Exchanging Information Between Project Plans

Linking Projects

Chapter 16: Exchanging Information with Other Applications

Creating Server interfaces with Other Applications

Using Microsoft Visio with Microsoft Project

Set up a document library

Using Web Parts to Create a Project Information Web Page

Chapter 17: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Excel

Match the Columns

Match the Data Types

Chapter 18: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Outlook

Send a Project File to Predefined Recipients

Chapter 19: Collaborating Using E-Mail

Entering E-Mail Addresses Automatically

Exchanging Project Information Using E-Mail

Chapter 21: Administering Project Server and Project Web Access for Your Enterprise

Carry out administrative duties

Category permissions

Global permissions

Protect project baselines

Create an enterprise global change process

Create an interface for enterprise data

Protecting actuals information

Tailor Project Web Access for users

Chapter 22: Managing Enterprise Projects and Resources

The enterprise versus non-enterprise resource pool

Review a resource's availability graphs

Managing the Timesheet periods

The Collaborate toolbar

Protecting Actuals

Chapter 23: Participating On a Team Using Project Web Access

Create a to-do list

Protecting actuals

Review a resource's availability graphs

Chapter 24: Making Executive Decisions Using Project Web Access

Create a Status Report

Chapter 25: Customizing Your View of Project Information

Use the Gantt Chart Wizard

Change the Format of a View

Share formulas with other projects

Group Tasks with Overallocated Resources

Create a Filter for Resource Booking Type

Specify multiple properties for a single resource

Chapter 26: Customizing the Microsoft Project Interface

Working with Personalized Toolbars

Quickly Customize Toolbars

Creating Keyboard Shortcuts

Chapter 27: Automating Your Work with Macros

Where the Macros Are: In the Project or the Global

Absolute Column References Can Be Tricky

Add the Visual Basic Toolbar

Chapter 28: Standardizing ProjectsUsing Templates

Built-In Templates

Create a New Project from an Existing One

Copy Templates that Others Have Created

Project Management Practices: Administrative Closure

Chapter 29: Managing Project Files

Open options

Add project summary information

Save options

What's in a filename?

Chapter 30: Understanding the Visual Basic Language

Installing VBA Help

Parents and Children: The Object Model Hierarchy

Calling Methods That Return Values

Inside Out

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

Finding the Right Help

Finding the Default Member of a Class

Three Birds, One Stone

Chapter 32: Working with Microsoft Project Data

Microsoft Access yes/no values

How the Project database stores values

Appendix A: Installing Microsoft Office Project 2003

Advanced Resources for Microsoft Project

Appendix B: Field Reference

Custom Fields in the MSP_PROJECTS Database