Microsoft Project 2007 Advanced Training Course

Overview and objectives

After completing this one-day Microsoft 2007 Advanced Training  course, students will know how to create project plans, assign costs, Create a budget and compare it with planned & actual costs, deal with over allocated resources, analyse the project, Format a project file and create reports. You will also be able to consolidate multiple project files, link tasks across projects and share resources across projects

Target Audience

Students should know the basics of Microsoft Project 2007 and project management techniques. Students will get most out of this course if their goal is to use Microsoft Project 2007 as a tool to become proficient managers and to create efficient and cost-effective projects for their organizations

Course Content

Creating & Managing a Budget

• Setting Up a Project Budget
• Create Budget Resources  
• Assign Budget Resources  
• Entering Budget Values for the Budget Resources       
• Allocate Budget Categories to Project Resources        
• Compare Budget Costs with Resource Costs  

  Tracking project work

•  Managing a project
• Saving a baseline plan
• Updating the progress of tasks
• Updating the percent complete of a task
• Updating actual start and finish dates
• Updating tasks that are in progress
• Updating the actual work performed on a task
• Saving an interim plan
• Observing project progress
• Displaying the Earned Value table
• Viewing progress in Network Diagram view

 Analyzing and adjusting the plan

• Analyzing the plan
• Viewing project statistics
• Displaying slippage and slack in a plan
• Rescheduling tasks
• Splitting a task
• Delaying resource work
• Assigning overtime

 Formatting and reporting

•  Formatting a project file
• Modifying a bar style
• Formatting a timescale
• Using drawing tools
• Using the Drawing toolbar
• Printing views and reports
• Printing the current view as a report
• Printing a report
• Customizing reports
• Creating a custom report
• Creating a Crosstab report

 Customizing the project environment

•  Creating custom views
• Creating a custom Network Diagram view
• Creating a combination view
• Creating macros
• Creating a macro
• Running a macro
• Creating a toolbar and a menu
• Creating a toolbar
• Deleting a toolbar
• Creating a new menu
• Deleting a menu
• Creating a custom table
• Creating a custom table

 Managing multiple projects

•  Consolidating and sharing projects
• Consolidating project files
• Linking tasks across projects
• Assigning project and task priorities
• Making an existing filter global
• Sharing a filter between projects
• Sharing resources across projects
• Sharing resources from another project

 Project communications

•  Communicating among a project team
• Discussing Microsoft Project Server 2003
• Sending task assignment requests
• Sending status requests
• Sending schedule notes
• Exporting project data to the Web
• Saving the project file as a Web page
• Viewing the project file as a Web page
• Working with hyperlinks
• Adding a hyperlink
• Saving projects to Microsoft Project 98
• Saving a project file to Microsoft Project 98
• Identifying lost elements

 Exchanging project data

•  Importing data
• Importing data from a Microsoft Excel workbook
• Importing data from a Microsoft Access database
• Exporting data
• Exporting data to a Microsoft Excel workbook
• Exporting data to a Microsoft Access database
• Copying data