Microsoft Project 2002/2003 Advanced Topics

Duration: 2 Days

TBA

Class Fee: $300.00

Time

Location

9 - 4

Computer Training Lab (rm 104)

Cross Office Building

Course Overview:

This instructor-led course continues to build on the skills learned in the Microsoft Project 2002/2003 Introduction course and helps students advance their skills using Microsoft Project to plan and track project files. The course focuses on: creating custom tables, view, and reports; using custom fields to perform calculations; using Autofilters and creating custom filters and groups; working with earned value and exporting earned value information to Excel; importing and exporting data; working with master projects; working with resource pools; and using the compare projects utility.

Prerequisites:

Completion of the Microsoft Project 2002/2003 Introduction course including mastery of: effort-driven and non-effort driven scheduling; assigning resources; task types and their effect upon project schedules; critical path; resolving resource overallocation; baselining and tracking.

Performance Based Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Create and modify new tables
Create formulas in custom fields
Create custom view, reports, and filters
Use filters, Autofilters, and custom filters
Explain and use earned value information
Import and export data
Created consolidated project files
Create and use resource pools
Create template files
Use the Compare Project Versions utility

Summary Course Outline:

Customizing Microsoft Project

Applying tables to views

Creating and modifying custom tables

Working with custom fields

Using custom fields to perform calculations

Creating and modifying views

Customizing the Gantt, Calendar, and Network Diagram Views

Creating and modifying reports

Filtering, Grouping, and Sorting

Applying filters

Working with highlight filters

Modifying highlight filters

Using and saving AutoFilters

Applying groups

Creating custom groups

Sorting views

Tracking and Earned Value

Customizing tracking options

Viewing and printing earned value data

Exporting earned value data

Exporting time phased earned value data

Exporting, Importing and Web Pages

Exporting data using maps

Creating custom export maps

Saving a project file as a web page

Creating custom import maps

Sharing custom maps with other files

Working with Multiple Files

Consolidating open project files

Inserting project files

Linking tasks in consolidated files

Updating external predecessors and successors

Unlinking project files

Working with Resource Pools

Guidelines for working with resource pools

Creating a new resource pool file

Creating sharer files

Creating resource pool files from existing files

Linking sharer files to pool files

Consolidating project files through the pool

Unlinking sharer files and pool files

Templates and Comparing Versions

Creating a template from a new project file

Creating a template from an existing file

Removing baseline and tracking data

Removing resource assignment data

Changing start dates for project files

Using the Compare Project Versions utility

Viewing project reports

Printing views

Printing reports

Updated 6/07