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Microsoft Project Tips Weekly

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Overview

Get the most out of Microsoft Project, with weekly time-saving tricks, powerful shortcuts, and reviews of cool hidden features.

Syllabus

New This Week
  • Add instructions and menu entries
  • Conclusion
Introduction
  • Welcome
Previous Microsoft Project Tips
  • Fill in duration, work, and dates quickly
  • Create a hammock task
  • Rename column headings
  • Display a calendar's nonworking time
  • Prevent duplicate resource names
  • Eliminate hashtags in table columns
  • Count tasks that meet a criterion
  • Sort resources by type and name
  • Fast access to your Project files
  • Save a new view
  • Compare individual and group allocation
  • Populate a lookup table with existing values
  • Summarize resource utilization
  • Hide non-working days on task bars
  • Find hidden task bars
  • Set additional baselines
  • Store customized elements where you want
  • Calculate work hours in a formula
  • Record costs from an external system
  • Change the date format in a specific view
  • Find a command
  • Edit multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Track ancillary project costs
  • When leveling doesn’t eliminate overallocations
  • Update parts of a baseline
  • Open and save file shortcuts
  • Create a cross-project dependency
  • Use hyperlinks in reports to navigate to details
  • Reuse lookup tables and formulas
  • Customize and share the Quick Access Toolbar
  • Calculate separate critical paths for several projects
  • Shortcuts for reapplying and clearing filters
  • Compare Microsoft Project editions
  • Shortcuts for viewing primary and detail panes
  • Flag key tasks with custom bar styles
  • Designate who reports status
  • Keep important fields visible in a table
  • Control how a view prints
  • Identify projects in a master file
  • Schedule for maintenance or system switchover
  • Manage negative slack in a schedule
  • Build an excel report that updates dynamically from project
  • Add a custom sort to the ribbon to reapply it quickly
  • Evaluate management timeframes
  • View progress as a percentage
  • Schedule approval during next meeting
  • Create a work shift that spans two days
  • Display tasks that should have status
  • Model scenarios with inactive tasks
  • Summarize tasks in resource usage view
  • Display labor cost by project section
  • Copy values from one baseline to another
  • Switch date constraints
  • Data entry shortcuts
  • Display the Task Details form in the Details pane
  • Add overall project notes to project summary task
  • Choose AutoSave options wisely
  • Create a WBS graph with a visual report
  • Find all tasks with estimated durations
  • Attach an image to a timescale task bar
  • Custom view, part 1: Set up a custom view
  • Custom view, part 2: Set up dashboard icons
  • Custom view, part 3: Group tasks by variance
  • Custom view, part 4: Filter troubled incomplete tasks
  • Find summary tasks with dependencies
  • Dependencies, part 1: Setup to review link types
  • Dependencies, part 2: Evaluate link types
  • Find tasks with date constraints
  • Find dependencies with lag or lead
  • Find tasks with excessive float
  • Find incomplete tasks with negative float
  • Find tasks with invalid dates
  • Find incomplete tasks without resources
  • Graphical report, part 1: Create a table
  • Graphical report, part 2: Build a graph
  • Graphical report, part 3: Fine-tune graph axes
  • Find in-progress assignments
  • Find when a resource is available
  • Report work by resource and project
  • Beware the Autolink option
  • Schedule part of a project from the finish date
  • Make exporting data easy
  • Simplify importing with a map
  • Merge data into existing rows
  • Turn off screen tips before presentations
  • Use indicators and option buttons
  • Set currency options
  • Prevent Project from calculating actual cost
  • Update OLE links
  • Assign resources with different schedules
  • Ignore resource schedules on a task
  • Use the Timeline view to control dates in a Gantt Chart view
  • Remove tasks from a summary task without deleting them
  • Set the fiscal year for a project
  • Update assignment status from task status
  • Restore window scroll bars if they go missing
  • Make linked cells visible in a view's table
  • Remove personal information from a Project file
  • Select predecessors easily in a dropdown list
  • Set up a calendar day with partial nonworking time
  • Share customized elements
  • Document your customizations
  • Working days, part 1: Calculate the days between two dates
  • Working days, part 2: Add error test for missing dates
  • Add multiple hyperlinks to a task or resource
  • Add a hyperlink to a file in a custom field
  • Tips for importing names from Excel
  • Format numbers, part 1: Formatting in a text field
  • Format numbers, part 2: Fine-tune number formats
  • Ancillary costs, part 1: Track with Fixed Cost fields
  • Ancillary costs, part 2: Track with cost resources
  • Change requests, part 1: Flag change requests
  • Change requests, part 2: Document change requests
  • Key tasks, part 1: Add flags to key tasks
  • Staffing plan, part 1: Assign generic resources
  • Staffing plan, part 2: Display plan in a spreadsheet
  • Master project links, part 1: When subprojects go missing
  • Master project links, part 2: Move a resource pool
  • Format duration, part 1: Display whole hours
  • Format duration, part 2: Add minutes to display
  • Contingency funds, part 1: Set up custom fields
  • Contingency funds, part 2: Calculate used funds
  • Project profit, part 1: Set up custom fields
  • Project profit, part 2: Calculate profit percentage
  • Open and save file shortcuts
  • Progress comparisons, part 2: Update and compare
  • View upcoming work, part 1: Create two-week filter
  • View upcoming work, part 2: Display upcoming work
  • Tasks with no dependencies, part 1: Create filter
  • Tasks with no dependencies, part 2: Evaluate unlinked tasks
  • Tasks with no dependencies, part 3: Count work tasks
  • Tasks with no dependencies, part 4: Calculate percent
  • Find summary tasks with dependencies
  • Finish-to-start links, part 1: Setup
  • Finish-to-start links, part 2: Calculate FS percentage
  • Calculate percentage of tasks with date constraints
  • Find tasks with lead time
  • Calculate the percentage of tasks with lag or lead
  • Count tasks with excessive float
  • Calculate the percentage of tasks with excessive float
  • Count tasks with negative float
  • Adjust a schedule to remove negative float
  • Find and correct tasks with invalid dates
  • Avoid invalid dates
  • Find incomplete tasks without resources
  • Create a schedule quality dashboard
  • Create schedule assessment report
  • Add best practice values to table

Taught by

Bonnie Biafore

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