Project 2013 Introduction

Lesson 1 – Learning Project Basics

Project 2013

Steps

Practice Data

5. Click in the first blank row in the

Type “Independence Day”.

Exceptions tab and enter the name of the holiday. The text is entered.

6. Select OK .

Click

The Change Working Time dialog box close.

If you open the Change Working Time dialog box and scroll back to July, you will see that a nonworking day is identified with underlining and shading.

Go back to the Gantt Chart View and scroll the timescale as necessary to display Jul 3, ‘16 . Notice that the gray shading indicates that July 4 th and 5 th , 2016 are nonworking days.

Add the following holidays. Mark remaining holidays for the year.

Holiday

Date

1 st Monday in September

Labor Day

2 nd Monday in October

Columbus Day

Veterans Day

November 11

4 th Thursday in November

Thanksgiving

Christmas

December 25

Save and Close the current open file.

U SING A P ROJECT T EMPLATE

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Discussion

Instead of starting a project from scratch, you can use a project template. A template provides a framework you can use for creating certain types of projects. Microsoft Project includes a variety of project types, including residential and commercial

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