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15: Applying Advanced Formatting and Advanced Formatting_Start.mpp Printing 16: Customizing Project 17: Sharing Project Information with Other Programs 18: Consolidating Projects and Resources Customizing A_Start.mpp Customizing B_Start.mpp Sample Task List.xls Sharing_Start.mpp Consolidating A_Start.mpp Consolidating B_Start.mpp

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1 A Guided Tour of Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Creating a Task List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 3 Setting Up Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 4 Assigning Resources to Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 5 Formatting and Sharing Your Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 6 Tracking Progress on Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

In this chapter, you will learn how to: Use the Backstage view to open and save Project files. Work with commands on different tabs of the ribbon interface, the major visual change introduced in Project 2010. Use different views to see Project information presented in different ways.

Microsoft Project 2010 can be your go-to tool in your project management toolbox. This book explains how to use Project to build project plans complete with tasks and resources, use the extensive formatting features in Project to organize and format the project plan details, track actual work against the plan, and take corrective action when things get off track. Project management is a broadly practiced art and science. If you re reading this book, chances are that you re either seriously involved in project management, or you want to be.

At its heart, project management is a combination of skills and tools that help you predict and control the outcomes of endeavors undertaken by your organization. Your organization might be involved in other work apart from projects. Projects (such as publishing a new children s book) are distinct from ongoing operations (such as running payroll services). Projects are defined as temporary endeavors undertaken to create some unique deliverable or result. With a good project management system in place, you should be able to answer such questions as: