Microsoft Project: Essential Skills for all User Levels

Course details

Welcome to a 10 step approach to using Microsoft Project, taught by expert trainer Richard Walters. This 10 step approach, which has been developed and delivered to organisations throughout the UK over the past 10 years, teaches you the fundamental skills of controlling and implementing a project using Microsoft Project.

In this course we will start from the beginning and discuss the initial stage of any project, the  Project Initiation Document (step 1). Once complete, we will move onto utilizing Microsoft Project and will learn how to Customise Microsoft Project, Set a Project Start or Finish Date, Enter Date into Microsoft Project, Modify Tasks and Enter Resources, Assign Resources To Tasks, Display Project Costs and Set a Project Baseline. 

Most lectures are 8 - 12 minutes long, with no lecture being over 20 minutes in length. Your trainer for this course, Richard Walters, is a Microsoft Certified Trainer who has been training Microsoft Project for the past 9 years throughout the UK. 

Customer Testimonials

"Teach one, learn one, do one method executed brilliantly throughout."

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10 Step Outline

• Step 1 - Project Initiation Document (PID)
• Step 2 - Customising Microsoft Project
• Step 3 - Setting a Start or Finish Date
• Step 4 - Data Entry
• Step 5 - Global Linking
• Step 6 - Modifying Task Links
• Step 7 - Entering Resources
• Step 8 - Assigning Resources to Tasks
• Step 9 - Displaying Project Cost
• Step 10 - Setting a Project Baseline