How to guides to help you get the most of Microsoft Project
Need expert tutorials on MS Project? Microsoft Project information for
project managers. Includes tutorials, planning advice and templates.
How to read a Microsoft Project Plan - A guide for project sponsors and project teams, which shows you
how to read and analyze an MS Project Plan.
Need to enter holidays in your Microsoft Project Plan? Read this
step by step guide to entering non working time in your schedule. Microsoft project sets weekends as non working or down time by default.
Ever forgotten to include holidays in your MS Project Plan? It is easy to forget to set holidays as non-working days in your MS Project plan. This is embarrassing, and can badly impact your credibility within your business and with clients. Having a task complete on Christmas day is never likely to be a realistic expectation!
Constraints in Microsoft project can ruin your project plan. Read this
guide to MS project constraints and learn how to use them correctly in your planning.
WARNING! Project Constraints have a valid part to play in project planning, but they can also be created by mistake with dangerous knock on effects. Read this guide to MS Project constraints for project planners and project managers. What they are and how to use them and common mistakes.
How to create a constraint, start no earlier than, must start on, in Microsoft project. Guide to creating a constraint/fixing task dates in Microsoft Project.
By Ellen Lehnert, MVP, PMP, MCT - MS Project & MS Project Server. When managing project schedules Project Managers often need to produce a count of various tasks. For example: How many late tasks are in a schedule, how many critical tasks, how many milestones, etc. This is a step by step guide to counting these tasks.
Critical Path is one of the most useful tools used by Project Managers for project scheduling. In this
guide to Critical Path Analysis, we explain this key analysis technique, give a definition and demonstrate it with examples.
Learn how to view the Critical Path in less than 5 minutes. This
short video explains how you can view the Critical Path in your Microsoft Project Plan.
How to create custom fields in Microsoft Project 2010. The quickest way to create a text custom field in two steps.
Filtering project plans is a powerful way to monitor project progress and troubleshoot issues. This is a guide to using filters or sorting your MS project plan
How to create custom filters in MS Project. Filters enable you to focus on particular aspects of your project plan. This is useful aspect of planning with MS Project.
How to Highlight certain tasks in MS Project. In MS Project you can highlight tasks based on certain criteria. This step by step guide shows you to apply built in filters to MS Project using a plan built in MS Project 2013 as an example. It also briefly covers creating custom Highlight filters.
Learn how to link to a website, file or to another task within your plan. Hyperlinks are generally thought of as connections to a web page, but they can be used to connect to any kind of file e.g. Word or Excel.
MS Project allows you to create hyperlinks on tasks, resources and assignments.
Masamiki.com was the website of Jack Dahlgren an MS Project MVP. The site is under new ownership and the original content has disappeared.
Here are some alternative websites.
Project tasks in Outlook can be imported into MS Project 2010. This step by step tutorial and video shows you
how to import outlook tasks into Microsoft Project.
Progress lines 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.
Need to PDF your MS Project plan? How to
convert an MS Project 2010 file to PDF. How to convert an .mpp file to PDF.
How to resolve a common scheduling challenge in Microsoft Project. In this
video we show a common scheduling scenario - how to deliver on time, but without overloading resources. This video runs through three options to resolve the issue.
Drawing on PMI best practice this guide explains
why Project Managers should avoid linking summary tasks in MS Project. Describes what summary tasks are and explains the problems with linking between summary activities.
The timeline feature is an underused and powerful tool in Microsoft Project. These how to guides cover everything you need to know to use the timeline.
How to use the Timeline in Microsoft Project 2010. Learn how to view the timeline, add key tasks, remove tasks and copy timeline for sharing in a presentation or via email.
Microsoft Project 2010 includes a handy snapshot of the entire project Timeline. Open up your project plan. Click the View Tab and look for Split View. Tick the Timeline check box.
Avoid the TOP 10 Microsoft Project mistakes. MS Project is a powerful piece of software, but that power and complexity makes it very easy to create errors in your plan or reduce the accuracy of your planning. Learn to
spot the top 10 signs that a Microsoft Project plan is not realistic.
Macros to automate tasks in Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project Macros.
VBA code examples for microsoft project. Some examples originally written by Jack Dahlgren.
