Microsoft Project 2013 Step by Step

About the Book: Microsoft Project 2013 Step by Step The smart way to learn Microsoft Project 2013-one step at a time! Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to manage the complete project life cycle with Project 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them ? Create and fine-tune your project plan ? Schedule tasks, set milestones, and assign resources ? Use Gantt charts to visualize project schedules ? Track progress and troubleshoot variances ? Communicate status with custom reports ? Learn project-management best practices Content Table of Contents Introduction PART 1 Introduction to Microsoft Project 1 Microsoft Project, project management and you 2 A guided tour of Project PART 2 Simple Scheduling Basics Starting a new plan 4 Building a task list 5 Setting up resources 6 Assigning resources to tasks 7 Formatting and sharing your plan 8 Tracking progress PART 3 Advanced Scheduling Techniques 9 Advanced task scheduling 10 Fine-tuning task details 11 Fine-tuning resource and assignment details 12 Fine-tuning the Project plan 13 Organizing project details 14 Tracking progress on tasks and assignments 15 Viewing and reporting project status 16 Getting your project back on track PART 4 In-Depth and Special Subjects 17 Applying advanced formatting and printing 18 Advanced report formatting 19 Customizing project 20 Sharing information with other programs 21 Consolidating projects and resources Appendices A A short course in project management B Developing your project-management skills C Collaborating: Project, SharePoint, and PWA D Using this book in a classroom Glossary Index About the authors How to download your ebook Survey page About the Author: Chatfield Carl Carl Chatfield Carl is a content project manager at Microsoft. In this role, Carl develops technical product documentation and Web content for a variety of products and services. Carl also teaches software user a