Managing Projects with Microsoft Project '97

About the Authors is a professional writer and editor of computer hardware and software manuals. She gained her insider knowledge about Microsoft Project as an original member of that program's software documentation team. She previously served as a product support engineer for Hewlett--Packard, where she also wrote computer--related manuals. She is the author of Managing Projects with Microsoft Projects, Project 2.0 and Project 4.0 and lives in Seattle, Washington. has worked as a member of the Microsoft Project software documentation team for over 3 years. During his 10--year technical writing career he has written software manuals and other technical documentation for Microsoft and Active Voice Corporation. Prior to that he worked in physics research at Bell Telephone Labs, now part of Lucent Technologies, Inc. He also lives in Seattle.

YOUR PROJECT TAKES SHAPE. The Elements of Project Management. How Microsoft Project Helps You to Manage Projects. Starting a Project. CREATING AND REFINING YOUR PROJECT PLAN. Breaking Your Project into Phases, Tasks, and Milestones. Making Tasks Happen in the Right Order and at the Right Time. Assigning Resources to Tasks. How to Assign and Manage Costs. Reviewing and Fine--Tuning Your Project Plan. TRACKING YOUR PROJECT AND UPDATING YOUR PROJECT PLAN. Keeping Your Project on Track. Updating Task Information by Using E--Mail and the Web. VIEWING, PRINTING, AND REPORTING PROJECT INFORMATION. Viewing the Information You Want: Using Views, Tables, Filters, and Details. Making Your Project Look the Way You Want. Printing and Reporting. SHARING PROJECT INFORMATION WITH OTHER PROGRAMS. Managing Several Projects at the Same Time. ADVANCED CUSTOMIZATION. Customizing Microsoft Projects to Fit the Way You Work. Glossary. Index.