MS Project Guide

Microsoft Project guide on how to take basic steps in this project management tool. Explanation, tips, pictures, and alternative ways to work on projects.

Task Board in MS Project

In Microsoft Project, a task board is a tool that an individual, team, or organization uses to represent work and its completion path. This includes ongoing, completed, and upcoming tasks that may be in a to-do list. From this article, as a part of our Microsoft Project tutorial, you will learn more about a task…

How to Open MS Project

The first questions you have when you start working in MS Project are how to open Microsoft Project files and how to open mpp files without MS Project. Luckily, both these questions have very clear answers. Moreover, these issues are very easy to solve. From this Microsoft Project tutorial, you’ll learn how to open Microsoft…

How to Create Timeline in MS Project

In Microsoft Project, the timeline is a graphical view of tasks. When managing large projects, providing an easy way to report overall progress to managers and stakeholders can save time and cost. At the same time, when you manage your project and need to delve into the details of tasks, it proves best to see…

How to Export Microsoft Project

Projects require constant control and monitoring by a project manager. However, there are cases that happen quite often when a third party, say, a stakeholder needs to check your chart; or you need to showcase your plan and include it in your presentation; or you simply need a quick access to a printable version of…

How to Set Working Days in Microsoft Project

Resources are one of the most critical issues in project management. They are units that help managers and teams to properly allocate tasks, track time and workload, and complete projects in a timely manner. In this context, no one will be able to manage and control performance without calendars. Setting one common calendar for all…

Microsoft Project Resource Planning

Resources refer to the people involved in the project, the equipment and materials used, and the costs associated with the project. Resources are required to perform project tasks. They can be the people, equipment, facilities, funds or anything (except labor) needed to complete a project task. Optimal resource scheduling is the key to successful project…

How to Use Microsoft Project Predecessors to Sequence Tasks in a Project

One of the principal purposes of Microsoft Project is to assist in the development of a project schedule. This is an essential part of project management which quite often defines its success. When you schedule tasks, you can see that some of them are connected and inherently conditioned to start one after the other. For…

How to Add Milestone Task in MS Project

Milestones are signs of tiny diamonds that mark important events in Microsoft Project. Milestones can be defined as approval, completion of key deliverables, an important event or the beginning or end of a project phase in MS Project. Milestones will also remind you and your team members to keep track of the project progress, which…

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