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Display Costs In Multiple Currencies In Microsoft Project: You can use the Euro Currency Converter COM add-in with Microsoft Project 2000 or later to display costs in more than one currency at the same time. This is especially helpful if you need to report costs in your own currency as well as in the euro or other currency....; Tags: Currency, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
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Increasing The Usefulness Of Microsoft Project 2000 Data: Many customers have requested a method to display alerts when aspects of a project are not going as planned; this is sometimes known as "stoplight" reporting. Microsoft Project 2000 now has many graphical indicators that can be assigned to display when values in custom fields extend past a predefined range,...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Microsoft Project 2000: Displaying Costs In Multiple Currencies: When you install the Euro Currency Conversion COM add-in in Microsoft Project 2000, you can display costs in more than one currency at the same time. This is especially helpful if you need to report costs in your own currency, as well as the Euro currency or any other currency....; Tags: Currency, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Microsoft Project 98/2000: Introduction To Earned Value Analysis: Using the time and cost tracking features of Microsoft Project, it's fairly easy to determine whether the project is on schedule and on budget ?assuming you've properly set up your project plan and accurately tracked actuals. Earned value analysis tells us how much of the budget should have been spent,...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers

Microsoft Project Central: The concept that collaborative planning is vital to successful development is gaining momentum throughout the software industry, causing a shift away from traditional, top-down hierarchies toward collaborative team structures. Microsoft Project Central, the web-based companion to Microsoft Project 2000, provides tools that support collaboration among teams and workgroups. Using the...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Microsoft Project Central Language Packs: Setup Information: The English version of Microsoft Project Central Server is English-only. Non-English versions of Microsoft Project Central Server include the language of the specific version and English. To support non-English browser versions, and to display pages in the native language, the Language Pack for that language needs to be downloaded and...; Tags: Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Microsoft Project: Assessing And Managing Risks: You've used Microsoft Project to create a detailed plan for your project and you believe you've accounted for everything. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty! The question is, "Where will the project go awry and what can you do to avert disaster?" Assessing and managing risks is the best weapon...; Tags: Risk, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Strategy, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management; White papers
Microsoft Project: The Project Triangle: Most projects have a specific finish date, budget, and scope. This trio of time, money, and scope is often referred to as the "project triangle." If you adjust any one of these elements, the other two are affected. While all three elements are important, typically one will have the most...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Migrating From Microsoft Team Manager To Microsoft Project 2000: With the release of Microsoft Project 2000, Microsoft has created a single product to meet the needs of both general knowledge workers and expert project managers. Microsoft Team Manager was designed to help a manager and team plan, manage, and track their ongoing work. Microsoft Project 2000 extends this functionality...; Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project 2000, Microsoft Project, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management; White papers
Other Factors That Affect How Tasks Are Scheduled: The critical path, differences between planned, scheduled, and actual dates, lead time and lag time, and deadline dates can affect the way Microsoft Project schedules. By default, Microsoft Project calculates only one critical path. However, you can calculate critical paths for an independent network of critical tasks, so that you...; Tags: Task, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Incorporating Material Resources With Microsoft Project 2000: Microsoft Project 2000 now allows you to identify and assign material resources to tasks in your projects. Material resources are supplies, stock, or other consumable items used to complete tasks in a project. Material resources are different from work resources, such as people and equipment, which use time rather than...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Resource, Material Resource, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Understanding Scheduling In Microsoft Project 2002: Microsoft Project helps you schedule a project from the information you enter about the overall project, the individual work items called tasks required to complete the project, and, if necessary, the resources needed to complete those tasks. If anything about your project changes after you create your schedule, you can...; Tags: Microsoft Project 2002, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Setting Working Times And Days Off By Using Project Calendars: It's important that your project is completed on time. To accomplish that, you must know when work on project tasks can or cannot be done. Project 2003 and Microsoft Project 2002 use calendars, as well as other information such as task dependencies, to determine when resources are available to work...; Tags: Calendar, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Mindjet MindManager: A Vital Solution for Improved Project Management: Project managers wrestle with mountains of information. Throughout the course of a project, one tracks, organizes, and communicates about everything from finances and scheduling to risk scenarios, human resource assignments, and project deliverables. Often, this information accumulates at a punishing pace, making it difficult to adhere to best practices that...; Tags: Information, Mindjet, Mindjet MindManager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Project, Productivity, Strategy, Microsoft Office, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Office Suites, Software; White papers 2006-06-19
Task Settings That Affect How Tasks Are Scheduled: Estimating and entering accurate durations is one of the most important things you can do to create a useful schedule. A task's duration is used to calculate start and finish dates for the task and, after you assign resources, the amount of work on the task. Duration, task dependencies, constraints,...; Tags: Task, Duration, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
The Residential Construction Template In Microsoft Project 2000: Microsoft Project provides several built-in templates you may find useful when starting a new project. A good example is the residential construction template, which includes the basic tasks required to construct a single-family home and the logical relationships between those tasks. The template may be used strictly for training or...; Tags: Residential Construction, Microsoft Corp., Template, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Tips And Tricks For Microsoft Project 2000: This paper is a collection of tips and tricks for Microsoft Project 2000. Microsoft Project now includes the option to clear a baseline or interim plan on a project, drag the row line between tasks to the height you want, use month as a duration unit or change the number...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Tracking Progress In Microsoft Project 98/2000: Though Microsoft Project makes tracking easy, there are several steps to take before you can begin tracking project progress. You need to decide which tracking methods to use and which items to track, such as task start and finish dates, work, and resource costs. You also need to choose the...; Tags: Method, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers
Using Custom Outline Codes In Microsoft Project 2000: Custom outline codes, a new feature in Microsoft Project 2000, are tags you define for tasks or resources that provide a structure for your project that is different from WBS codes or outline numbers. Typically, you apply each outline code to two or more tasks or resources. Unlike WBS codes,...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; White papers