Microsoft Project Articles

Formatting

Change the Timescale to See a Different Level of Detail

Learn how to change the major and minor timescales in Microsoft® Project 98 views to display project data at a customized level of detail.

Roll Up Task Gantt Bars to Summary Task Gantt Bars

Learn how to display a project overview by rolling up task bars within summary task bars in the Gantt Chart view. Microsoft® Project 98 outline symbols make it easy to hide project details and quickly see summary tasks and selected subtasks at a glance.

Dates

This article describes how Microsoft® Project 98 handles the various types of dates entered in a project file. Many Microsoft Project fields accept dates, and most date fields accept time information.

Format the Calendar View Using the Mouse

This article describes how to format the Microsoft® Project 98 calendar view using the mouse. You can change the appearance of days, weeks and months and easily adjust column widths and row heights in the calendar.

Hyperlinks

Using Hyperlinks in Microsoft Project 98 to Track Project-Related Documents and Web Sites

Learn how to track project-related documents and web sites using hyperlinks in Microsoft® Project 98. Hyperlinks can jump users to locations on the Internet, a company intranet, or to files on a network.

Installation

Installing Help for Visual Basic in Microsoft Project 98

This article lists the steps necessary to install Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Help in Project 98.

Integration

Go Beyond Excel

The Microsoft® Project 98 dynamic scheduling and resource features go beyond the static schedules available in Microsoft Excel. Learn how to import and export data between Microsoft Project and Excel, use AutoFilters and analyze time-scaled project data.

Microsoft Project 98 Drivers and Training Materials

How to use Microsoft Project 98 Drivers and Training Materials

Move a Microsoft Outlook Task List to Microsoft Project

If you have been tracking a project using Microsoft Outlook® and want to move that information into Microsoft Project 98, you can export the Outlook Tasks list to Microsoft Project and then import the list from Microsoft Excel.

Save Time and Effort by Using Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Project

Learn how using Microsoft Project 98 with Microsoft Outlook can make it easier to assign tasks and incorporate actual work reported by team members. See how team members can keep track of tasks in Outlook, and create and send status reports.

Internet

Using Microsoft Project Workgroup Features on an Intranet

Learn how to use the Microsoft® Project 98 Workgroup features to assign tasks, request status reports, or send task updates using an organization's intranet to communicate with team members.

Workgroups Plus the Web = Web Groups

This article describes how to use the Microsoft® Project 98 Workgroup features, such as TeamAssign, TeamUpdate, and TeamStatus to communicate with project members over the web using Microsoft Personal Web Server or any MAPI-compliant e-mail system.

Multi-project Management

Insert a Project into a Consolidated Project File

Using Microsoft® Project 98, learn to consolidate projects for easier management in two ways. Create a new megaproject file, consolidating one project at a time, or quickly insert projects into the consolidated file as a group.

Link Tasks Between Projects

Learn how to link tasks across projects and establish a finish-to-start task dependency. Discover how external predecessor or successor tasks are handled in a Microsoft® Project file.

Managing Multiple Projects Efficiently

Learn how to manage multiple projects with Microsoft® Project 98 by consolidating multiple project files, creating a workspace, and linking tasks between projects. Explore the role of summary and ghost tasks in facilitating multiproject management.

Open Separate Project Files at the Same Time

Learn to create workspaces in Microsoft® Project 98 to manage your unrelated projects that run concurrently. Workspaces save time by allowing you to open separate project files at once.

Setting Up Dependencies Between Projects

Learn how to create dependencies between projects in Microsoft® Project 98 by linking tasks using cross-project links within a consolidated project file or by creating links between separate but related projects.

Project Management Techniques

Implementing a Web Project Office

The Project Office is put in place to coordinate and facilitate project management activities across the enterprise.

Popular Shortcut Keys for Microsoft Project 98

Do you find that using the keyboard is sometimes quicker than using your mouse? Shortcut keys in Microsoft® Project 98 details how to commands and toolbar buttons, outline and edit project information, and more (16 shortcuts included.)

Robbins-Gioia: A Three-Fold Approach to Project Management

Discusses the key components of good project management - people, processes, and tools. Outlines a set of project management processes that are scalable and customizable for the needs of an individual project or a range of projects in an enterprise.

The Project-Based Organization

This article describes a project-based management approach that changes the way organizations use projects and makes project management a tool for getting things done and changing the organization.

Project Scheduling

Using Contours to Schedule Work on a Period-by-Period Basis

Use contours to schedule work on a period-by-period basis and more accurately reflect resource usage over a task's duration. You can use the Microsoft® Project 98 pre-set contours, such as flat, front or back-loaded, or create custom contours.

Project Tracking

Using Microsoft Project

Microsoft® Project 98 can help you manage your project by tracking task, resource, and cost data. How to build a plan to make tracking possible; how and where to track actual data and view the project's status; best ways to view task and resource data.

Resource Management

Create a Resource Pool

Learn how to create a resource pool with Microsoft® Project that allows you to track resources shared among the projects you manage. You will create a separate resources-only pool and projects that share resources, then link those projects to the pool.

Disconnect a Project from a Resource Pool

Learn how to use Microsoft® Project 98 to disconnect a project from a resource pool when its resources no longer need to be shared with other projects.

Incorporating Resource Pay Rate Changes in Your Project

Learn how to model resource pay rate changes over time using the time-stamped variable resource rates available in the Microsoft® Project 98 Resource Information feature in the Resource Usage or Resource Sheet view.

Open a Project that Is Linked to a Resource Pool

Learn how to use Microsoft® Project to open a project file that is linked to a resource pool. Choose whether to open the resource pool only; open the pool and all projects that share the pool; or open the project file only.

Plug the Time-and-Money Drain by Pooling Resources

With Microsoft® Project 98, use resource pools to assign and view resource information from multiple projects in one file, identify and resolve conflicts arising when a resource is assigned to more than one project, and update shared-resource information.

Refresh a Resource Pool

Learn how to use Microsoft® Project to refresh a resource pool. Refreshing allows you to reflect in your pool changes in resource information generated by other project managers using the same shared resources.

Update a Resource Pool

Learn how to update a resource pool with Microsoft® Project to reflect changes that affect a resource, such as availability. You can choose to update the resource pool only or to update any or all projects that share the pool.

Seminars

Seminars

Find out about books, publications, reference materials and other resources available to expand your use of Microsoft® Project. These resources contain shortcuts and tips plus in-depth explanations on installation, setup, usage and features.

Viewing

Using Views to Highlight the Impacts of Resource Leveling

The Leveling Gantt view is a new view in Microsoft® Project 98 that displays the before and after effect of resource leveling. This view compares the start and finish dates of tasks and the amount of time a task is delayed due to resource leveling.

Tips

Microsoft Project Tips & Tricks

Tips for Project. Get helps hints about --Calendar, Customization, Filters, Formatting, Hyperlinks, Integration, Internet, Multi-project Management, Project Management Techniques, Printing, Project Scheduling, Resource Mgmt, Task Splitting, and Viewing.