Microsoft Project - Intermediate

Course subjects

Resource Levelling

• Understanding Resource Levelling

• Creating Resource Chaos

• Tracking Down Over Allocations

• Checking Resource Usage

• Creating an Over Allocation Report

• Fix 1 - Changing Work Effort

• Understanding Overtime

• Fix 2 - Assigning Overtime

• Fix 3 - Hiring Contract Labour

• Fix 4 - Switching Work Assignments

• Fix 5 - Rescheduling Tasks

Assigning Materials

• Assigning Fixed Material Consumption

• Contouring Materials Usage

• Adding More Material Assignments

• Assigning Variable Usage Material

• Adding to a Material Assignment

• Checking Work for Materials

Costs

• Understanding Project Costs

• Reviewing Current Costs

• Entering Variable Costs

• Case Study Variable Costs

• Assigning Daily Costs

• Assigning Per Usage Costs

• Assigning Fixed Costs

• Assigning Material Costs

• Using Another Cost Table

• Applying a Different Cost Table

• Changing Rates During a Project

• Assigning Cost Resources

• Viewing Project Costs

Constraints and Deadlines

• Understanding Constraints and Deadlines

• Reviewing Our Project

• Adding a Constraint

• Using Elapsed Time

• Rescheduling Tasks

• Creating a Deadline

Project Tracking

• Creating a Baseline

• Automatically Updating Tasks

• Manually Updating Tasks

• Entering Delayed Tasks

• Tracking Actuals on a Gantt Chart

• Using the Tracking Box

• Viewing Task Slippage

Printing and Reporting

• Printing a Gantt Chart

• Printing Sheet Views

• Printing Tasks for Resources

• Printing Resources for Tasks

Project Views

• Understanding Project Views

• Working With the Standard Views

• Creating Split Views

• Creating a Custom View

• Creating a Custom Combination View

• Using Custom Views

• Customising the View Menus

• Saving an Existing View

• Deleting Unwanted Views

• Keeping New Views Local

Tables

• Exploring Tables

• Creating a New Table

• Adding Fields Using Add New Column

• Adding Fields Using Insert Column

• Adding Simple Custom Fields

• Formatting Table Fields

• Creating a Simple Lookup Table

• Using a Custom Table

• Using a Hyperlink Field

Controlling Project Data

• Understanding the Data Tools

• Basic Data Highlighting

• Highlighting Date Ranges

• Highlighting a Range of Tasks

• Highlighting Tasks With Specific Resources

• More Highlight Filters

• Applying Filters

• Creating a Custom Filter

• Using a Custom Filter

• Editing Existing Filters

• Deleting an Unwanted Filter

• Grouping Tasks

• Using AutoFilters

Formatting Projects

• Understanding the Timescale

• Changing Time Periods

• Showing Tiers

• Modifying Specific Tiers

• Formatting for Non-Working Time

• Changing Text Styles

• Working With Gridlines

• Displaying Progress Lines

• Working With Progress Lines

• Changing the Layout

• Understanding Gantt Chart Bars

• Changing Gantt Chart Styles

• Changing Bar Text

• Formatting Selected Bars

• Changing Bar Styles

Printing Gantt Charts

• Placing Printing Commands on the Ribbon

• Using Print Preview

• Setting Page Breaks

• Printing Specific Dates and Pages

• Printing Headers

• Printing Footers

• Working With the Legend

• Getting the Right Report Fit

• Exporting to PDF