Report Tables in Project 2013 – Tutorial

Report Tables in Project 2013 – Tutorial: A picture of a report table and its associated Field List pane in Microsoft Project 2013.
Report Tables in Project 2013: Overview             Report tables in Project 2013 differ from tables in other Office applications, like Word, in that you cannot manually add information to them. Report tables in Project 2013 simply display selected information about the project. Report tables in Project 2013 use a data source for their display of
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Create New Projects in Microsoft Project- Tutorial

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Create New Projects in Microsoft Project: Overview             This tutorial shows you how to create new projects within Microsoft Project 2013 and 2010. When you first open Project 2013, you will see the startup screen that allows you to create a new project file. In Project 2010, a new blank project file is automatically created
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Create a New Base Calendar in Microsoft Project

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Learn How to Create a New Base Calendar in Project: Overview             In Microsoft Project, base calendars, such as the “Standard” calendar or the “Night Shift” calendar, are the calendars you select when initially creating your project file to choose a default work availability schedule for the project. Sometimes, you may need to create a
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Microsoft Project 2010 Training: Project Tracking and Resource Allocation

Need more Project training? Click here for the complete tutorial.                 Monitoring Resource Allocations As you complete the work on your project file, you should monitor your resource allocation. You may be under-using resources that you could otherwise utilize, which is called underallocating resources. Perhaps more importantly, you
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Microsoft Project 2013 Tutorial: Using Visual Reports

Need more Project training? Click here for the complete tutorial.                 Visual Reports Project allows you to create “visual reports” that compile data from your project and then display the results in a visual report within another application, such as Microsoft Excel or Visio. Note that to use
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Using Reporting Features in Microsoft Project 2013

Click here to view the complete tutorial             Using Earned Value Analysis One of the many benefits of project management is the ability to perform earned value analysis. Note that this term is also often referred to as earned value management. This type of analysis allows you to view project
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Assigning Work Resources to Tasks in Microsoft Project 2013

Assigning Work Resources to Tasks Microsoft Project uses effort-driven scheduling by default when you assign your work resources to, or remove resources from, a specific task. As an example, this means that if you assign one person to a task, Microsoft Project will calculate how long that person will take to complete the task based
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Tracking Project Tasks in Microsoft Project 2013

Creating Project Baselines At this point in your project development, you should have an initial project plan created. Before you begin to record the actual progress made (actual work performed) on the tasks within your project file, you should save a copy of the original project plan. This copy is called a project baseline. You
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