Microsoft Project Intermediate

Course Overview

Microsoft Project Intermediate

For those who wish to expand their fundamental skills and master the art of managing multiple projects and resources.

Course Content

Importing and Exporting Data

• Importing and exporting data
• Creating and using import/export maps
• Object linking and embedding

Scheduling Tasks, Date Constraints and Deadlines

• Scheduling with dates
• Quick scheduling with the mouse
• Splitting and recurring tasks
• Constraining tasks with dates
• Applying task deadlines
• Removing deadlines and date constraints

Master and Sub Projects

• Creating a master plan
• Inserting and deleting sub projects
• Cross project dependency links
• Multiple project critical paths

Managing Multiple Resource Assignments

• Assigning additional resources to tasks
• Part time resource assignments
• Viewing resource, and assignment details
• Task types and effort driven scheduling
• Using resource views to identify over allocations resolve conflicts
• Resource levelling

Managing Baselines and Comparing Projects

• Creating a project baseline
• Comparing plans with a baseline
• Adding tasks to a baseline
• Clearing baseline data
• Working with multiple baselines

Gantt Chart Formatting

• Formatting text and text styles
• Applying and removing gridlines
• Formatting bars and creating bar styles
• Formatting working times, non-working times and the timescale

Project Reporting

• Updating file properties
• Viewing and printing reports
• Creating visual reports