Project 2003 Advanced, 2nd Edition Study Guide

1-4239-1371-X © 2007 Publish date: June 5, 2006 154 pages

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Course ID: project-2003-adv-2nd-sg

If you have the basics of using Microsoft Project 2003 down and are ready to learn about the advanced features, functions, and techniques of Project, the Project 2003 Advanced study guide is one of the best computer training books for the job.

The Project 2003 Advanced courseware is rated 4.8/5.0 in overall quality from ProCert Lab. This training manual builds on the techniques and concepts you learned in the basic course. You will learn about creating baseline and interim plans, how to analyze project statistics, how to format project files, work with custom views, and consolidate files. You will also learn how to use Project Server 2003 to communicate project information and how to integrate Project with other MS Office programs including Excel, Access, and Word.

As you work through the Microsoft Project training courseware, you will learn these advanced features by going through each of the course's seven units and participating in the hands-on activities. Each unit is dedicated to a specific advanced-level topic.

This course lets you learn these advanced skills without having to sign up for Project classes or seminars. You can study according to your own terms, at your own pace. By the time you complete the course, whether in a day or in a month, you will have advanced Project skills.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you will know how to save baseline plans, update the percentage of tasks completed, and work with actual start and finish dates, in-progress tasks, and actual work. You will also know how to save interim plans, look at the Earned Value table for monitoring actual versus estimated costs, and view task progress.

The courseware teaches you how to analyze your projects, format your project files, use drawing tools, print views and charts, create custom reports, create crosstab reports, work with macros, create custom tables and views, consolidate files, link tasks across projects, assign priorities to both projects and tasks, share project elements and resources across projects, communicate information, import and export data, to Excel, Access, and Word, and save your project as a Web page.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces tracking your projects

• Managing projects
• Updating the progress of tasks
• Observing a project's progress

Unit 2 discusses analyzing and adjusting the plan

• Analyzing your plan
• Rescheduling tasks

Unit 3 covers formatting and reporting

• Formatting your Project files
• Using drawing tools
• Printing views and reports
• Customizing reports

Unit 4 discusses customizing Project's environment

• Custom views
• Working with macros
• How to create a toolbar and a menu
• How to create a custom table

Unit 5 covers managing multiple projects

• Consolidating and sharing projects
• Sharing resources across projects

Unit 6 discusses Project communications

• Communicating with project teams
• Exporting your project data to the Internet
• Using hyperlinks
• How to save projects to Microsoft Project 98

Unit 7 covers exchanging project data

• Importing data
• Exporting data
• Copying data