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5 Project 2007 Training Tutorials

computer_teacher — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:06:45 +0000

Here are 5 Project 2007 Training Tutorials, located at agileconcepts. All of these are in pptx Powerpoint format. These MS Project learning tutorials will show you how to work with lag/lead times, task dependencies, creating a web page of your project, and copying your project information to other Office applications.

3 Beginning Project 2007 Tutorials:

(pptx) Learn How to Create Lag Time and Lead Time in your projects

(pptx) Creating task Dependency Links so Project Tasks are in a Locked Order

(pptx) How to Use Dependency Links to Adjust the Schedule when your Plan changes

2 Intermediate Project 2007 Tutorials:

(pptx) Copying your Project Information to a Web Page

(pptx) How to Copy your Project information to an Office application

20 Office 2007 eBooks

computer_teacher — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:25:06 +0000

Here are 20 downloadable MS Office eBooks, mostly for the Office 2007 version, including Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and Project. These are in PDF an CHM (Windows Help) format.

Microsoft Office eBooks:
- Outlook 2007
- Word 2007
- Access 2007
- Excel 2007
- Project 2007
- Access 2007
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Excel 2007 VBA
- Programming Excel
- Excel Data Analysis with SQL
- Excel VBA and dotNet
- Access VBA
- Access 2007 VBA

Microsoft Project Reference Guide

computer_teacher — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:01:49 +0000

Here is a Microsoft Project Reference Guide, located at Ohio University. This Project tutorial reference teaches you about several important features of this project management application, and will assist you in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads. The topics listed below include screenshots with explanations. This document is in pdf format.

Microsoft Project Reference Guide (8 pages, 252kb)
- Project groundwork
- Enter tasks and estimate durations
- List resources and costs
- Customizing views

eBooks on Office, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, and Project

computer_teacher — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:41:36 +0000

Update: Here are 7 more Microsoft Office eBooks, covering Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Project. The first 3 are in Windows Help format (chm) and the last for are in pdf format.

- Excel ebook

- Word ebook

- Microsoft Access ebook

- Powerpoint 2003 ebook

- Microsoft Project 2003 ebook

- Microsoft Office 2003 ebook

- Microsoft Office 2007 ebook

Here are 10 eBooks covering Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, and Project.

- Excel 2003 ebook 1
- Excel 2003 ebook 2
- Excel 2003 Programming ebook 1
- Excel Programming ebook 2

- Microsoft Office 2003 ebook 1
- Microsoft Office 2003 ebook 2

- Microsoft Access 2003 ebook 1
- Microsoft Access 2003 ebook 2
- Microsoft Access 2003 ebook 3

- Microsoft Project 2003 ebook

Free Microsoft Project 2007 Class

computer_teacher — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:31:08 +0000

Here is HP’s Free Microsoft Project 2007 Class, which will give you a good introduction to Project management using Microsoft Project. This online course, available 24/7, will help you to sharpen and demonstrate your project management skills. You’ll learn the basics of project management and how to manage a project’s scope, deadlines, costs and resources using Project 2007. You can enroll for free at any time.

Project features you will learn:
- Understand project management basics of time, money, resources and scope
- Set up and manage tasks
- Manage human and material resources
- Track projects more effectively

Project 2007 Class Lessons:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Project Management
This lesson provides the basics of managing a project using Microsoft Project 2007. You’ll discover how Project 2007 can help you manage project time, resources, costs and scope, plus you’ll learn how to get started in Project 2007.

Lesson 2: Working with Tasks
Defining, listing, organizing and scheduling tasks are key to any project’s success. In this lesson, you’ll discover how to list tasks in a project, organize them into phases and schedule them to be certain your project comes in on time.

Lesson 3: Managing Resources
Most projects involve multiple resources. In this lesson, you’ll discover how to assign people and equipment to tasks and define working times for resources to ensure effective resource management.

Lesson 4: Tracking and Reporting
Once a project has been created and resources assigned, you need to track the project and create reports. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to save a baseline of your project, enter progress data, print your plan and generate reports.

12 Free Office 2000 Training Manuals

computer_teacher — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:49:23 +0000

Here are 12 Free Office 2000 Training Manuals for all of these Microsoft applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, Visio, and FrontPage. These excellent free Office training documents, from microsofttrainingcourses.co.uk, include tutorials and instructions for learning both introductory and advanced features, and also provide Macro and VBA training. The documents are downloaded in zip format, and when unzipped are in Word (.doc) format. They are comprehensive and teach you all of the features and topics for these apps in a step-by-step format.

MS Office 2000 Training Manuals

MS Word Training Manuals

MS Excel Training Manuals

MS PowerPoint Training Manual

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

MS Outlook Training Manual

Microsoft Outlook 2000

MS Access Training Manuals

MS Project Training Manual

Microsoft Project 2000

MS FrontPage Training Manual

Microsoft FrontPage2000

12 Free Office XP Training Manuals

computer_teacher — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:40:23 +0000

Here are 12 Free Office XP Training Manuals for all of these Microsoft applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, Visio, and FrontPage. These excellent free Office training documents, from microsofttrainingcourses.co.uk, include tutorials and instructions for learning both introductory and advanced features, and also provide Macro and VBA training. The documents are downloaded in zip format, and when unzipped are in Word (.doc) format. They are comprehensive and teach you all of the features and topics for these apps in a step-by-step format.

MS Office 2002 / XP Training Manuals

MS Word Training Manuals

MS Excel Training Manuals

MS PowerPoint Training Manual

Microsoft 2002 XP PowerPoint

MS Outlook Training Manual

Microsoft 2002 XP Outlook

MS Access Training Manuals

MS Project Training Manual

Microsoft 2002 XP Project

MS Visio Training Manual

Microsoft Visio 2002 XP

MS FrontPage Training Manual

Microsoft 2002 XP FrontPage

Free Microsoft Project 2003 Training Manual

computer_teacher — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:05:00 +0000

Using Microsoft Project, you are able to to define projects, manage, update, and communicate information about a project. The details of the project’s tasks and associated resources are entered into the system as a new project. Project then shows the information such that the relationships of the tasks and their time scales can clearly be seen and potential problem areas identified.

Here is a Free Microsoft Project 2003 Training Manual, from microsofttrainingcourses.co.uk. This training document is 140 pages in length, the zipped download size is 711kb, and the resulting doc file size is 1.3mb. It will teach and show you all of Project’s important features and functionality, as listed below, including the 3 main methods of viewing and editing project data: charts, forms, and sheets. Charts can be either Gantt Charts or Network Diagram Charts both of which are a diagrammatic representation of the project data. Forms contain the data relevant to a single specific task or resource. Sheets are a table of all the Tasks or all the Resources that are part of the Project.

Project 2003 Training Manual Table of Contents:

Section 1:
Understanding Project Management
Project Language
Terminology
Views and Tables
The Tracking Gantt View
Project’s Menus
Project’s The Tool Bars
The Stages of Project Management
Monitoring and Adjusting

Section 2:
Planning and Defining the Project
Defining the Project
The Goal and Objectives
The Specification and Limitations
Project Properties
Creating a New Base Calendar
Save the New Project File
Saving and Ending a Project Session

Section 3:
Entering Tasks
The Task Information box/Task Sheet
Tables and descriptions
In the Gantt Chart or the Task Sheet
Using the Task Information Form
Using The Network Diagram Chart
Adding and Linking Tasks
Defining the Summary Tasks
The AutoCorrect Feature

Section 4:
Resource Management
Reviewing and Navigating the Resource Sheet
Adding Resources to the Resource Sheet
The Resource Graph
Set Resource Calendars
Allocate Resources
Review Resource Usage
Working with Resources
Updating Resource Information on the Fly
Planned Time Scale
Lead Time and Lag Time
The Outlining View (Summary)
Promoting and Demoting Tasks

Section 5:
Display Data and Cost Factors
Using Gantt Charts
Changing Time Scale and the Palette
Using Network Diagram Charts
Changing the contents of a Node
Changing the layout of the Chart
Elements of the Network Diagram Chart
Applying and Customizing Filters
Examining the Cost Factor

Section 6:
Page Setup
Printing Charts, Forms and Sheets
Reports Setup & Editing Reports
Task and Cost Information
Cost information
Reports by Report Type

Section 7:
Updating the Project
Updating Task Data
Entering Task Names and Durations
Tracking Progress
Viewing the Gantt Chart and the Resource Graph
Modifying the Project to Match Resources
Levelling
Define an Update Point

Section 8:
Multiple Projects
Using Common Resources
Adding Sub Projects
Consolidating Projects created in earlier versions of Project
Recurring Tasks
Task Relationships
The Organizer

Download Links for Office eBooks

computer_teacher — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:35:57 +0000

Here are three sites that provide download links for Office eBooks covering all of the Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio, and Project. These computer ebooks are located at download sites like rapidshare.com. On rapidshare.com, you need to click on the ‘Free’ button, and then click on the ‘Download via…’ button (you may need to enter a 3-4 character code). On other download sites you may need to click on the ‘Request ticket’ link.

1) FreeBookSpot links to several Office eBooks in its Microsoft Office category. Some ebooks on this site have two or three download links. The link(s) to download each ebook are under the Download Instructions heading on each ebook’s description page.

2) Here is Computerebook.net’s Office category. To download an ebook from this site, you need to first click on the link under the ‘Server’ column on the ebook’s description page, then on the next page click on the ‘Download eBook’ link. Some of these links are not working.

3) Lastly, here is KnowFree 2.0′s Office category. Some of the links on this site are not working, but many are.

Freely Available Microsoft Office eBooks

computer_teacher — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:21:52 +0000

Here are links to freely available Microsoft Office ebooks from freebooklinks.com. This site bills itselfs as “A 100% free resource to hundreds of free ebook downloads from all over the web.”

Freely Available Microsoft Office eBooks

2 Microsoft Project Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:25:49 +0000

Here are 2 Microsoft Project Tutorials loaded with screens shots that demonstrate the features being taught. Also included here are 2 pages of discussions about project management, what it is and some recommendations about how to do it right. These tutorials describe the basic concepts of project management using Microsoft Project.

Project Management with Microsoft Project

Project Management 1

Projects, their outcomes
What does it mean to manage a project?
The ‘Systems view’
Project phases

Project Management 2

Pitfalls of ad hoc management
The shoot-from-the-hip style doesn’t cut it
Discipline and flexibility
Common sense as a management technique

Microsoft Project 1

Define the project
Establish a timeline
Arrange tasks
Critical Path Management (CPM/PERT

Microsoft Project 2

Manage the resources
People and materials
Track costs

Office Quick Reference Guides

computer_teacher — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:57:18 +0000

Here are eight excellent 2-page Office Quick Reference Guides for Word 2003, Excel 2003, Outlook 2003 and 2002, PowerPoint 2003, Project 2002, and Visio Professional 2003 and 2002. These will come in handy when you need to find out how to do a task and perform a feature quickly in these Office applications.

Word 2003

Excel 2003

Outlook 2003

Outlook 2002

PowerPoint 2003

Project 2002

Visio 2003 Professional

Visio 2002 Professional

Microsoft Project and Gantt Chart Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:01:45 +0000

This is a nicely illustrated, 2-page tutorial covering Microsoft Project that introduces you to Project and demonstrates its basic functionality. This application has many features and capabilities and some of the most important are shown in this tutorial.

Microsoft Project Tutorial

Gantt Charts are an important concept that is used in Microsoft Project and its important to understand how to use these types of charts. Here is a 4 page GANTT Chart Tutorial (pdf) that discusses project planning basics (tasks, milestones, work breakdown statements) and how to use Project to make Gantt Charts. Also, here is how to Design the GANTT Chart (pdf).

Microsoft Project Slides, Examples, and Tutorial

computer_teacher — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:49:05 +0000

These Workshop Slides, Examples, and Tutorial will teach you how to use Microsoft Project. The Project tutorial contains illustrated explanations and examples of the features being taught, followed by detailed learning activities. These slides, examples and tutorial will help you will learn the basic skills for using and understanding Project’s features and functions.

Project Management Workshop Slides, Examples, and Tutorial

Project Management Concepts Presentation – 42 Slides

PDF document, 14 pages, 41kb
Web-based slides

Project Management Concepts
Why bother?
Survey Results
Projects, Programs, and Operations
What is a Project?
Why Projects Fail
Golden Rules of Project Success
Golden Rules (continued)
Purpose of Project Management
Project Management
Stakeholders
Success of a Project
Communications Channels
Successful Project Manager
Basic Project Management Step
Initiate the Project
Plan
Implement
Close
Project Life Cycle
Task Definition
Work Breakdown Structure: Outline FormWork Breakdown Structure: Hierarchical Form
Common Project Management Diagrams: Gantt Charts, Calendars, PERT Charts & Critical Paths
Project Tracking

Introduction to Microsoft Project (pdf, 32 pages, 212kb)

Project Environment
File Management

Creating a new project
Opening an Existing Project
Saving a Project

Project Templates
Project Views
Tasks

Types of tasks
Tasks Entry Form
New Tasks
Moving Tasks
Recurring Tasks
Deleting Tasks
Linking Tasks

Resources

Adding Resources
Removing a Resource
Assigning Resources
Removing Resource Assignments
Viewing Resource Information

Data Storage
Viewing Project Data

Calendar View
Gantt Chart
Network Diagrams

Maintaining your project

Creating a baseline
Viewing your baseline task sheet
Updating Tasks
Updating Tasks
Tracking Gantt Chart

Tools

Spell Check
AutoCorrect

Project Reports

Standard Reports
Viewing Standard Reports

Microsoft Project Class Files [zip] (9 .mpp documents, 176kb)

Example Reports:

Project Plan Template

Template Outline is as follows: Executive Summary, Scope, Limitations, Description of Work, Baseline Schedule, Resource Requirements, Cost Analysis, Progress Reports, Attachmentes / References.
PDF Version (4 pages, 10kb)
Word Version (4 pages)

3 Free Microsoft Project Ebooks

computer_teacher — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:48:26 +0000

Here are 3 freely available ebooks on Microsoft Project 2003 and 2002 (XP). Project is the task and resource scheduling application in the Microsoft Office application suite. These Project ebooks provide many details and instructions on how to use the features and functions of this resource allocation application.

Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Project 2002
(pdf, 8472 kb)

Show Me Microsoft Office Project 2003
(chm, 19203 kb)

Project 2003 Personal Trainer
(chm, 10063 kb)