Previous Microsoft Project Tips
Fill in duration, work, and dates quickly
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Create a hammock task
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Rename column headings
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Display a calendar's nonworking time
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Prevent duplicate resource names
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Eliminate hashtags in table columns
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Count tasks that meet a criterion
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Sort resources by type and name
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Fast access to your Project files
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Save a new view
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Compare individual and group allocation
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Populate a lookup table with existing values
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Summarize resource utilization
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Hide non-working days on task bars
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Find hidden task bars
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Set additional baselines
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Store customized elements where you want
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Calculate work hours in a formula
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Record costs from an external system
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Change the date format in a specific view
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Find a command
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Edit multiple tasks simultaneously
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Track ancillary project costs
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When leveling doesn’t eliminate overallocations
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Update parts of a baseline
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Open and save file shortcuts
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Create a cross-project dependency
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Use hyperlinks in reports to navigate to details
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Reuse lookup tables and formulas
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Customize and share the Quick Access Toolbar
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Calculate separate critical paths for several projects
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Shortcuts for reapplying and clearing filters
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Compare Microsoft Project editions
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Shortcuts for viewing primary and detail panes
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Flag key tasks with custom bar styles
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Designate who reports status
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Keep important fields visible in a table
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Control how a view prints
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Identify projects in a master file
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Schedule for maintenance or system switchover
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Manage negative slack in a schedule
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Build an excel report that updates dynamically from project
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Add a custom sort to the ribbon to reapply it quickly
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Evaluate management timeframes
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View progress as a percentage
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Schedule approval during next meeting
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Create a work shift that spans two days
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Display tasks that should have status
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Model scenarios with inactive tasks
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Summarize tasks in resource usage view
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Display labor cost by project section
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Copy values from one baseline to another
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Switch date constraints
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Data entry shortcuts
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Display the Task Details form in the Details pane
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Add overall project notes to project summary task
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Choose AutoSave options wisely
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Create a WBS graph with a visual report
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Find all tasks with estimated durations
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Attach an image to a timescale task bar
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Custom view, part 1: Set up a custom view
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Custom view, part 2: Set up dashboard icons
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Custom view, part 3: Group tasks by variance
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Custom view, part 4: Filter troubled incomplete tasks
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Find summary tasks with dependencies
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Dependencies, part 1: Setup to review link types
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Dependencies, part 2: Evaluate link types
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Find tasks with date constraints
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Find dependencies with lag or lead
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Find tasks with excessive float
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Find incomplete tasks with negative float
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Find tasks with invalid dates
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Find incomplete tasks without resources
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Graphical report, part 1: Create a table
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Graphical report, part 2: Build a graph
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Graphical report, part 3: Fine-tune graph axes
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Find in-progress assignments
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Find when a resource is available
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Report work by resource and project
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Beware the Autolink option
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Schedule part of a project from the finish date
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Make exporting data easy
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Simplify importing with a map
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Merge data into existing rows
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Turn off screen tips before presentations
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Use indicators and option buttons
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Set currency options
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Prevent Project from calculating actual cost
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Update OLE links
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Assign resources with different schedules
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Ignore resource schedules on a task
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Use the Timeline view to control dates in a Gantt Chart view
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Remove tasks from a summary task without deleting them
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Set the fiscal year for a project
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Update assignment status from task status
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Restore window scroll bars if they go missing
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Make linked cells visible in a view's table
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Remove personal information from a Project file
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Select predecessors easily in a dropdown list
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Set up a calendar day with partial nonworking time
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Share customized elements
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Document your customizations
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Working days, part 1: Calculate the days between two dates
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Working days, part 2: Add error test for missing dates
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Add multiple hyperlinks to a task or resource
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Add a hyperlink to a file in a custom field
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Tips for importing names from Excel
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Format numbers, part 1: Formatting in a text field
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Format numbers, part 2: Fine-tune number formats
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Ancillary costs, part 1: Track with Fixed Cost fields
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Ancillary costs, part 2: Track with cost resources
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Change requests, part 1: Flag change requests
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Change requests, part 2: Document change requests
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Key tasks, part 1: Add flags to key tasks
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Staffing plan, part 1: Assign generic resources
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Staffing plan, part 2: Display plan in a spreadsheet
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Master project links, part 1: When subprojects go missing
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Master project links, part 2: Move a resource pool
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Format duration, part 1: Display whole hours
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Format duration, part 2: Add minutes to display
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Contingency funds, part 1: Set up custom fields
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Contingency funds, part 2: Calculate used funds
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Project profit, part 1: Set up custom fields
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Project profit, part 2: Calculate profit percentage
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Open and save file shortcuts
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Progress comparisons, part 2: Update and compare
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View upcoming work, part 1: Create two-week filter
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View upcoming work, part 2: Display upcoming work
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Tasks with no dependencies, part 1: Create filter
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Tasks with no dependencies, part 2: Evaluate unlinked tasks
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Tasks with no dependencies, part 3: Count work tasks
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Tasks with no dependencies, part 4: Calculate percent
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Find summary tasks with dependencies
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Finish-to-start links, part 1: Setup
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Finish-to-start links, part 2: Calculate FS percentage
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Calculate percentage of tasks with date constraints
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Find tasks with lead time
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Calculate the percentage of tasks with lag or lead
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Count tasks with excessive float
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Calculate the percentage of tasks with excessive float
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Count tasks with negative float
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Adjust a schedule to remove negative float
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Find and correct tasks with invalid dates
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Avoid invalid dates
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Find incomplete tasks without resources
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Create a schedule quality dashboard
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Create schedule assessment report
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Add best practice values to table
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Add instructions and menu entries
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Conclusion
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