Microsoft Project: The Five Keys - Key 1 Navigation

Learn essential navigation skills in Microsoft Project to effectively create project schedules, utilize Gantt Chart timelines, and optimize key configurations for success.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about mastering the essentials of Microsoft Project. You'll dive into navigation skills, keyboard shortcuts, and learn to leverage the Gantt Chart for smooth scheduling. It sets the stage for future keys in project management.

Key Points

  • Understand how to navigate the Microsoft Project interface.
  • Learn essential keyboard shortcuts for efficiency.
  • Get familiar with the Gantt Chart timeline for effective scheduling.
  • Recognize key setup configurations to avoid frustration.
  • Master the basics before moving onto tasks and time tracking.

Learning Outcomes

  • Navigate MS Project with confidence and ease.
  • Utilize Gantt Chart features for simple reporting.
  • Identify and fix common setup issues in MS Project.
  • Apply keyboard commands to streamline your workflow.
  • Lay a solid foundation for more advanced project management concepts.

About This Course

To be able to use MS Project you have to know the essentials on how to navigate the user interface.That is covered here

This is Key 1 Navigation Microsoft Project Tutorial of the Five Keys to MS Project. Key 1 covers Navigation. Key 2 covers Tasks and Task Linking essentials. Key 3 covers Task Constraints---one of the most misunderstood components of MS Project. Key 4 covers Project Calendars. Key 5 cover Tracking Actual Progress.

In total the Five Keys gives you the essential skills needed to create project schedules in a way that keeps the tool lean but powerful, and thus usable as a tool for actually helping your projects to be successful.

Take this first key in my Microsoft Project Training course and learn essential navigation skills needed to be able to use Microsoft Project effectively.

  • Be able to understand how to navigate MS Project from its different views to it quirky key board commands

  • Be able to understand how to take advantage of MS Project's Gantt Chart timeline, which is absolutely essential to creating effective schedules and simple reports

  • Learn about key setup configurations that are unfortunately set incorrectly by Microsoft "out of the box" and unless addressed will guarantee frustration

Instructor

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F. Kevin Gaza

F. Kevin Gaza, PMPHello!  I have been an enterprise project manager for over fifteen years for a multi-state healthcare organization. In that role I was a primary architect and author of the organization’s project methodology and have been a lead project manager on a variety of enterprise projects including rolling out ITIL/ITSM, building data centers, FCC funding projects , deploying...

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Donna
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8 years ago

Easy to follow instructions and demonstrations, great pace. I had heard how difficult project was to learn. I may say that when it's over, but for now, I feel pretty comfortable.

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