Using Microsoft Project

Need expert tutorials on MS Project? Microsoft Project information for project managers. Includes tutorials, planning advice and templates.

Advice and guidance on using MS Project 2007 and 2010

• Analyse Microsoft Project Plan - How to analyse plans made using MS Project


• Adding Holidays - Add any Holidays and non working time in the project calendar


• Project Calendars - Non-working time - enter UK holidays in MS Project


• Constraints part 1 - How to use Microsoft Project constraints


• Constraints part 2 - Common mistakes in using constraints


• Create constraints - How to create project constraints


• Counting totals - How to count totals in MS Project- By Ellen Lehnert, MVP, PMP, MCT - MS Project & MS Project Server


• Critical Path - Overview of Critical Path Analysis


• Critical Path - Viewing the Critical Path - video tutorial


• Custom Fields - How to create a custom field
• Filters - How to filter your Microsoft Project plan by certain tasks or resources


• Filters - How to create a custom filter in MS Project


• Highlight tasks - How to Highlight Tasks in MS Project based on certain criteria. This guide includes using built-in Highlight filters and creating Custom Highlight filters.


• Hyperlinks - How to create Hyperlinks in Microsoft Project 2010


• Outlook tasks - How to import Outlook tasks into MS Project 2010


• Progress lines - Progress lines in Microsoft Project are a useful way of checking project task status at a glance. This how to guide explains progress lines, how to read them and how to use them.


• How to create a PDF of your project plan - MS Project 2010 to pdf


• Scheduling problems - How to resolve a common scheduling problem in Microsoft Project


• Linking Summary tasks - Why you should avoid linking summary tasks


• Using the Timeline - a quick guide to the Timeline tool in Microsoft project. See a detailed step by step guide to using the Timeline tool.


• Top Ten Microsoft project mistakes - The top 10 signs that your Microsoft Project plan is not realistic


• Microsoft project VBA examples - Macro VBA code for Microsoft project

Coming soon

• PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling - MS Project best practice