Setting up a Project in Project 2013


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Expertise Level



Overview/Description
Microsoft Project 2013 provides you with a comprehensive set of tools to organize and manage your project from the first through to the last phase. Being able to use Project not only simplifies your work but can also help to reduce errors that might occur when trying to manage so many tasks and deliverables at once. This course introduces the various ways of setting up a project plan using existing templates, previous project plans, or starting from scratch. It also covers how to create the project calendar and customize settings that are required for your project such as setting working and non-working hours and days, creating custom fields to record project-specific information, and changing general options such as date and currency formats.

Target Audience
Personnel at all levels of the enterprise; end-users seeking to attain competency in Microsoft Project 2013; end-users seeking to attain working knowledge of Microsoft Project 2013

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.6

Lesson Objectives

Setting up a Project in Project 2013

  • create a new project file in Project 2013
  • set up a project calendar in Project 2013
  • customize fields in Project 2013
  • change default project options in Project 2013
  • Course Number:
    mo_bgpj_b01_dt_enus

    Expertise Level
    Beginner