Microsoft Project Level 1

Microsoft Project Level 1 – Course Outline

 

 

About This Course

You need to gather information about the various tasks involved, resources required to accomplish the tasks and the overall cost in order to plan a project.  Microsoft Office Project Professional acts as a tool that assists you in managing your projects.  In this course, you will create and modify a project plan, work with constraints and deadlines and add task notes.  You will see how to set up a basic report and to add recurring tasks.

 

Target Audience

This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage these project plans.

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At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

 

• Identify the components of the Microsoft Project environment

• Use views to work with a project plan

• Create a new project plan

• Create the project schedule

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Course Content

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Changing the Initial Settings

• Changing the Default View

• Showing the Display Bar

• Creating the Working Calendar

• Amending the Working Time

• Adding Exceptions

• Using the Organizer

 

Creating a Basic Project

• Amending Project Information

• Amending Advanced Properties

• Entering and Moving Tasks

• Creating Milestones

• Defining Task Relationships

• Adding Task Constraints

• Adding Task Notes

• Displaying the Project Summary Bar

• Adding Extra Tasks

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Amending Task Relationships

• Creating Summary Tasks

• Manually Adjusting the Start and Finish Dates

• Adding Lag and Lead to a Tasks

• Adding a Deadline

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Formatting the Project

• Formatting the Gantt Chart

• Formatting the Task Names

• Displaying the Critical Path

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Printing the Project

• Printing Notes

• Working With the Legend

• Printing a Date Range

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​Working With the Timeline

• ​Adding Tasks to the Timeline

• Displaying Tasks as Callouts

• Change the Date Format

• Hiding Commands on the Timeline

• Sharing the Timeline

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Recurring Tasks

• Adding a Recurring Task

• Changing the Recurrance

• Amending the Range of Recurrence

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Project Reports

• Displaying the Project Overview Report

• Viewing other Dashboards

• Editing a Report View

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​​​​Course duration: one day

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