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Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step

Build exactly the skills you need. Learn at the pace you want.

Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to manage your projects with Project 2010. With Step By Step, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Topics include building a project plan and fine-tuning the details; scheduling tasks, assigning resources, and managing dependencies; monitoring progress and costs; keeping projects on track; communicating project data through Gantt charts and other views.

• Build and fine-tune your project plan
• Schedule tasks, set milestones, and allocate resources
• Track progress and costs - and manage variances
• Troubleshoot project delays and budget overruns
• Customize Gantt chart views, tables, and calendars
• Learn project-management best practices

The Table of Contents of "Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step":

Simple Scheduling

• Chapter 1 A Guided Tour of Project
• Chapter 2 Creating a Task List
• Chapter 3 Setting Up Resources
• Chapter 4 Assigning Resources to Tasks
• Chapter 5 Formatting and Sharing Your Plan
• Chapter 6 Tracking Progress on Tasks

Advanced Scheduling

• Chapter 7 Fine-Tuning Task Details
• Chapter 8 Fine-Tuning Resource Details
• Chapter 9 Fine-Tuning Assignment Details
• Chapter 10 Fine-Tuning the Project Plan
• Chapter 11 Organizing Project Details
• Chapter 12 Tracking Progress on Tasks and Assignments
• Chapter 13 Viewing and Reporting Project Status
• Chapter 14 Getting Your Project Back on Track

Special Subjects

• Chapter 15 Applying Advanced Formatting and Printing
• Chapter 16 Customizing Project
• Chapter 17 Sharing Project Information with Other Programs
• Chapter 18 Consolidating Projects and Resources

Appendices

• Appendix A Short Course in Project Management
• Appendix Roadmap for Developing Your Project and Project Management Skills
• Appendix Using the Practice Files if Connected to Project Server
• Appendix Using Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step in a Classroom: Suggestions for Instructors

Glossary
Appendix About the Authors

• Follow the easy numbered steps
• Use screenshots to check your work
• Get helpful tips and pointers
• Build your skills hands - on using ready-made practice files

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

• All the book´s practice files - ready to download and put to work. See "Using the Practice Files," inside.
• Fully searchable online edition of this book - with unlimited access on the Web. Free online account required; see inside back.

About the Authors Joyce Cox and Joan Lambert:

Joyce Cox has 30 years´ experience in the development of training materials about technical subjects for non-technical audiences, and is the author of dozens of books about Office and Windows technologies. She is the Vice President of Online Training Solutions, Inc. (OTSI).

As President of and principal author for Online Press, she developed the Quick Course series of computer training books for beginning and intermediate adult learners. She was also the first managing editor of Microsoft Press, an editor for Sybex, and an editor for the University of California.

Joan Lambert has worked in the training and certification industry for 13 years. As President of OTSI, Joan is responsible for guiding the translation of technical information and requirements into useful, relevant, and measurable training and certification tools.

Joan is a Microsoft Office Master (MOM), a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCAS), a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and the author of more than two dozen books about Windows and Office (for Windows and Mac).