Using Microsoft Project

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