- Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
- One. Project Management: The Missing Manual
- 1. Projects: In the Beginning
- 2. Planning a Project
- 3. Taking Microsoft Project for a Test Drive
- 4. Breaking Work into Task-Sized Chunks
- 5. Estimating Task Work and Duration
- 6. Setting Up a Project Schedule
- 7. Making a Schedule That’s Easy to Maintain
- Two. Project Planning: More Than Creating a Schedule
- 8. Building a Team for Your Project
- 9. Connecting Resources to Tasks
- Assigning Work Resources to Tasks
- Assigning Material Resources to Tasks
- Understanding Duration, Work, and Units
- Modifying Resource Assignments
- Adding and Removing Resources from Tasks
- 10. Does the Schedule Work?
- Making Sure Tasks Are Set Up Correctly
- Defining Work Schedules with Calendars
- Task Inspector: Help with Schedule Problems
- Building Reality into Assignments
- Balancing Workloads
- Finding Resource Over- and Under-Allocations
- Finding overallocated resources in the Resource Sheet
- Finding overallocations with the Team Planner
- Finding overallocations with the Resource Graph
- Viewing assignments with the Resource Usage view
- Viewing and leveling assignments in the Resource Allocation view
- Getting hard copies of allocation reports
- Adjusting Assignments to Correct Allocations
- Leveling Assignments
- Prioritizing Projects and Tasks
- Finding Resource Over- and Under-Allocations
- 11. Setting Up a Project Budget
- Putting a Price Tag on Your Project
- Incorporating Resource Costs
- Preparing for Cost Calculations
- Reviewing Cost Information
- Comparing Costs to Your Budget
- Reducing Project Costs
- Setting the Project Fiscal Year
- Assigning Accounting Codes
- 12. Refining a Project Schedule
- 13. Saving the Project Plan
- Obtaining Approval for the Plan
- Storing Project Documents
- Preserving the Original Plan in Project
- Setting a Baseline
- Setting Additional Baselines
- Adding New Tasks to a Baseline
- Saving Sets of Start and Finish Dates
- Clearing a Baseline
- Viewing Baselines
- Viewing baseline and current values in a Gantt Chart view
- Viewing baseline values in a table
- Three. Projects in Action
- 14. Tracking Progress
- 15. Evaluating Project Performance
- 16. Managing Change
- 17. Reporting on Projects
- An Overview of Project’s Reports
- Text-Based Reports
- Working with Visual Reports
- Printing Views to Report Project Information
- 18. Closing a Project
- Four. Project Power Tools
- 19. Working on Multiple Projects
- 20. Exchanging Data Between Programs
- 21. Linking and Embedding
- 22. Project on the Internet
- Hyperlinking to Information
- Integrating Project and Outlook
- Adding Project Tasks to Outlook
- Importing Tasks from Outlook
- Copying Tasks from an Email
- Building a Resource List from an Outlook Address Book
- Sending Project Information to Others
- Sending Project files via email
- Routing a Project file to several recipients
- Publishing a Project file to an Exchange folder
- Five. Customizing Project
- 23. Viewing What You Want
- Creating Your Own View
- Changing Tables
- Changing the Way Text Looks
- Filtering Through Information
- Grouping Project Elements
- 24. Defining Your Own Fields
- 25. Customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
- 26. Reusable Project: Templates
- 27. Saving Time with Macros
- 23. Viewing What You Want
- Six. Appendixes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
About the Author
Bonnie Biafore is an award-wining author of more than a dozen books, including Missing Manuals on Quicken 2009, QuickBooks 2009, and Project 2007, as well as The Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook, Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better, and has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy-to-understand morsels and spicing them up with her warped sense of humor.
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