Microsoft Project 2016 Foundation Training Materials

FIRST STEPS USING PROJECT 2016

• What is Microsoft Project 2016?
• The opening Project 2013 screen
• Project help screen
• Help videos

USING PROJECT 2016

• The Project 2016 screen
• The ribbon
• Closing Microsoft Project
• Opening an existing Project document
• Changing Project views
• Using templates
• Closing the current Project document

SETTING UP A PROJECT

• Editing your Project file properties
• Inputting start and finish dates
• Selecting a Project calendar type
• Making a new calendar
• Applying a customised calendar
• Saving a Project
• Setting up currency within Microsoft Project

PROJECT 2016 – TASKS, NOTES & MILESTONES

• What are tasks?
• Entering tasks
• Entering subtasks
• Entering task durations
• Creating a summary task
• Recurring tasks
• Task notes
• Milestones

PROJECT 2016 – MANIPULATING TASKS & CONSTRAINTS

• What are constraints?
• Adding constraints
• Editing tasks
• Deleting tasks
• Moving tasks

PROJECT 2016 – DEPENDENCIES

• What are dependencies?
• Finish-to-start (fs) dependencies
• Start-to-start (ss) dependencies
• Start-to-finish (sf) dependencies

PROJECT 2016 – RESOURCES

• What are resources?
• Creating a resource list
• Working time
• Rates
• Resource notes
• Assigning resources
• Views & split windows
• What are Microsoft Project views?
• Changing views
• Gantt chart view
• Calendar view
• Network diagram view
• Task usage view
• Resource graph view
• Resource sheet view
• Resource usage view
• Splitting the window

PROJECT 2016 – PRINTING & REPORTS

• Viewing and printing reports
• Using print preview
• Page setup
• Reports