Microsoft Office Project, the leading project management application, is increasingly used by professionals in a variety of fields-from charity and special events to planning special or routine projects in a manufacturing setting. The Microsoft Project Survival Guide is appropriate for beginning to intermediate level users who needs to learn how to use the latest version of Microsoft Office Project to execute their projects with more efficiency and reliability. Learn how to build an accurate project plan in Microsoft Project and how to track work to that plan. Topics include establishing project parameters and calendar, building the list of tasks (WBS), adding resources, creating assignments, saving the baseline, tracking work, and reporting and communicating about the plan. A new user-friendly approach and tone, along with step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and end-of-chapter reviews and quizzes will help you understand both how to use Project's commands and steps and also the overall project management model that it employs. Benefits: * Written for anyone who needs to learn how to use Microsoft Office Project to execute projects with more efficiency and reliability. * Focuses on the latest version of the leading project management application. * Covers how to build an accurate project plan in Microsoft Project and how to track work to that plan.

* Features a user-friendly approach and tone, step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and end-of-chapter reviews and quizzes.