Project 2013 Introduction

Lesson 1 – Learning Project Basics

Project 2013

Steps

Practice Data

1. Click the File Tab. Opens the file tab

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2. Select Save

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Opens the Save As dialog box.

3. Type the desired file name.

Type house.

The text appears in the File name box

4. Select the drive where you want to save the project. A list of available folders appears. 5. Open the folder where you want to save the project. The contents of the folder appear.

Click the student data drive.

Double-click to open the student data folder.

6. Select Save .

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The Save As dialog box closes, the file is saved, and the title bar changes to reflect the new project file name.

Notice that the Gantt chart now displays the week of current day .

S ETTING P ROJECT I NFORMATION

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Discussion

The Project Information dialog box stores basic project information such as the start or finish date, and whether you are scheduling the project forward or backward. Scheduling forward means that you enter a start date for a project. The durations of the tasks determine the finish date. Scheduling backward means that you enter a finish date for the project and project determines the start date. It is recommended that you schedule from a start date because when you schedule from a finish date, Microsoft Project is unable to adjust the start date of tasks based upon resource constraints (known as “leveling”). In addition, scheduling backward schedules tasks to start as late as possible.

You can also set a project priority, which is helpful when you are working with multiple project files. The priority can be set from 0 through 1000, with 1000 indicating a project of the highest priority.

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