Learning Microsoft Project 2010 Training Video

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• 01. Getting Started

  • Overview Of MS Project And What To Expect From The Course
  • What Will I Be Able To Do?
  • Exploring A Sample Project
  • Tour Of The New MS Project 2010 Interface
  • Using The Files Included With This Course

• 02. The Interface

  • Auto Hide The Ribbon Menus
  • Customize The Quick Command Bar
  • Adding Your Own Tab To The Ribbon Menu
  • Activating Autosave In Project 2010
  • Alter The Project Colour Scheme And Other General Options
  • Controlling The Recently Used File List

• 03. Starting Your Own Project

  • Creating A New Project File And Save Options
  • Setting The Project Information/Properties
  • Deciding On A Start/Finish Date For The Project
  • Adding A New Task And Exploring Task Duration Options
  • Importing Tasks From Microsoft Outlook
  • Importing Tasks From Microsoft Excel
  • Organizing Tasks Into Logical Groups
  • Adding A Milestone Task
  • Estimated and Elapsed Duration Tasks
  • Moving Or Deleting Tasks
  • Making A Task Inactive
  • Changing The Task Priority Value
  • Adding Notes To A Task
  • Attaching External Files To A Task
  • Adding/Editing The Project Summary Task
  • Methods Of Linking Scheduled Tasks
  • Exploring The Different Link Types
  • How To Add Lag Or Lead Time
  • Exploring The Detail Gantt
  • Formatting The Task Pane
  • Spellchecking The Task Pane
  • Find/Replace Text In The Task Pane

• 04. Working With Your Project File

  • 0401 Navigating To An Exact Date In The Gantt Chart
  • 0402 Displaying The Current Task In The Gantt Chart
  • 0403 Changing The Dates Visible In The Gantt Chart
  • 0404 Sorting Tasks
  • 0405 Using The Filtering Options
  • 0406 Sort Your Tasks Into Groups
  • 0407 Adding Deadlines
  • 0408 Exploring Constraint Types
  • 0409 Removing An Unwanted Or Accidental Constraint
  • 0410 Viewing Your Project In Calendar View
  • 0411 Viewing Your Project As A Network Diagram
  • 0412 Using The Task Inspector
  • 0413 How Does MS Project Determine The Critical Path?
  • 0414 Finding The Critical Path

• 05. Resourcing Your Project

  • 0501 The Resource Types Available
  • 0502 Adding A New Material Resource Type
  • 0503 Adding A New Work Resource Type
  • 0504 Adding A New Cost Resource Type
  • 0505 Adding Notes To Resources
  • 0506 Adding Varying Costs For A Work Resource
  • 0507 Placing Resources Into Groups
  • 0508 Adding A Fixed Cost To A Task
  • 0509 Allocating Material Resources To A Task - Part 1
  • 0510 Allocating Material Resources To A Task - Part 2
  • 0511 Allocating Cost Type Resources To A Task
  • 0512 Allocating Work Resources To A Task
  • 0513 Changing Task Types
  • 0514 Effort Driven Or Not
  • 0515 Making Use Of The Resource Views
  • 0516 How To Deal With Over Allocation
  • 0517 Applying Resource Leveling
  • 0518 Adding Overtime To Deal With Over Allocation
  • 0519 Viewing The Project Costs
  • 0520 Viewing Breakdown Of Resource Costs

• 06. Calendar And Working Time

  • 0601 Altering The Working Time Defaults
  • 0602 What Is The Base Calendar
  • 0603 Altering The Project Base Calendar - Part 1
  • 0604 Altering The Project Base Calendar - Part 2
  • 0605 Altering Work Resource Calendars
  • 0606 Adding Recurring Absence Patterns
  • 0607 Creating A New Calendar
  • 0608 Assigning A Customized Calendar To A Resource
  • 0609 Assigning A Calendar To A Task

• 07. Tracking Your Project

  • 0701 Saving The Baseline
  • 0702 Customizing The Current Date Line Appearance
  • 0703 Changing The Current Date To Mimic Progress
  • 0704 Marking Individual Task Progression
  • 0705 Marking an Individual Task with a Delay
  • 0706 Marking Multiple Task Progression
  • 0707 Using The Tracking Gantt To Monitor Progression
  • 0708 Reschedule An Entire Project
  • 0709 Splitting A Task Manually
  • 0710 The Project Statistics Snapshot

• 08. The New Project 2010 Timeline

  • 0801 Display/Hide The Timeline
  • 0802 Expand/Contract The Scale Used On The Timeline
  • 0803 Adding Tasks To And Removing From The Timeline
  • 0804 Displaying Tasks As Callouts On The Timeline
  • 0805 Editing The Text Formatting Of The Timeline
  • 0806 Exporting The Timeline For Use In Other Applications

• 09. Reporting Progress

  • 0901 Customizing Print Settings For The Gantt Charts
  • 0902 Selecting And Printing The MS Project Reports
  • 0903 Create Your Own MS Project Report
  • 0904 Exporting A Visual Report Into Excel Or Visio
  • 0905 Creating Your Own Excel Visual Report
  • 0906 Exporting Project Data To Microsoft Access
  • 0907 Emailing The Project File To Others
  • 0908 Exporting To PDF Format For Distribution

• 10. The Master Report

  • 1001 The Advantages And Disadvantages Of A Master Report
  • 1002 How To Create A Master Project
  • 1003 Updating The Master From The Sub Projects And Vice Versa
  • 1004 Creating Links Between Sub Projects
  • 1005 Adding Tasks To The Master Project
  • 1006 Creating A Resource Pool
  • 1007 Telling Projects To Use The Resource Pool
  • 1008 Assigning Resources From A Resource Pool
  • 1009 Saving Changes To A Resource Pool
  • 1010 Assigning Resources With The Master Project
  • 1011 Opening The Resource Pool To View Resource Usage

• 11. Recurring Tasks

  • 1101 Adding A Recurring Task
  • 1102 Editing The Occurrences Of A Recurring Task
  • 1103 Editing The Frequency Pattern Of A Recurring Task
  • 1104 Deleting Tasks Within A Recurring Sequence

• 12. WBS Codes

  • 1201 What Does WBS Mean?
  • 11202 Sticking With The Default WBS Or Create Your Own

• 13. The Global Template

  • 1301 What Is The Global Template?
  • 1302 Where Is The Global Template?
  • 1303 Using The Organizer To Update The Global Template
  • 1304 Creating Your Own Gantt Chart
  • 1305 Changing The Table Used With A Custom Gantt Chart
  • 1306 Changing The Gridlines Of The Custom Gantt Chart
  • 1307 Changing The Bar Styles Of The Custom Gantt Chart
  • 1308 Changing The Layout Of The Custom Gantt Chart
  • 1309 Changing The Timescale Of The Custom Gantt Chart
  • 1310 Copying The Custom Gantt Chart To The Global Template
  • 1311 Deleting The Custom Gantt Chart

• 14. Advanced Gantt Chart Customization

  • 1401 Changing Text Displayed Next To A Gantt Chart Task Bar
  • 1402 Adding Your Own Gantt Chart Bar For Critical Tasks
  • 1403 Creating A New Text Field
  • 1404 A Custom Field With A Droplist
  • 1405 Formulas In Custom Fields
  • 1406 Custom Fields Using Graphical Indicators
  • 1407 Clever Combination Of Custom Fields And Bar Styles
  • 1408 Progress Lines In Microsoft Project
  • 1409 Adding Drawings To The Gantt Chart
  • 1410 Making Custom Fields Available To All Future Projects

• 15. Macros

  • 1501 Recording A Macro
  • 1502 Adding A Keyboard Shortcut To Run Your Macro
  • 1503 Adding A Ribbon Button To Run A Macro
  • 1504 Editing A Macro
  • 1505 Deleting A Macro
  • 1506 A Useful Macro To Reset A Project

• 16. Credits And Beyond

  • 1601 Further Practice - Part 1
  • 1602 Further Practice - Part 2
  • 1603 About The Author

This Microsoft Project 2010 Tutorial Video will teach you the intricacies of using this software. Master instructor Guy Vaccaro walks you through using MS Project 2010 starting with the basics. You watch the video capture of his actual desktop as he verbally explains exactly, step by step, what he is doing, learning even the most complex areas of Project is reduced to a series of easy to follow instructions.

Beginning with a tour of the brand new interface to Microsoft Project 2010, Guy shows you to to create a new project, add tasks, add resources, and deal with any problems that may crop up along the way. You will learn to read Gantt charts, and control how they look and behave specific to your own personal needs. You will learn how to use Master Projects, the new Timeline, even creating and saving Macro's within MS Project to make repetitive tasks easy to manage! This tutorial video comes complete with working files to allow you to work alongside the author as you progress through your training.

By the completion of this video based training title, you will be fully capable of creating and managing your own project, no matter what the size or complexity, in Microsoft Project 2010.