Category: Microsoft Project 2013

Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft PPM 2013 That you May Not have Known

Posted on by Juan Rangel

If your using a Project Server 2010 solution and are restricting the ability to ‘Set a Baseline’ to a particular ‘Group’ of people, you may have noticed that Project Mangers that don’t have permissions to ‘Save a Protected Basline’  you will find that they are able to update attributes found in the ‘Baseline’ table (or they can insert these baseline values Read more about Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft PPM 2013 That you May Not have Known[…]

Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013 Tutorial

Posted on by Sinem Tepe

Some people learn by reading and others by seeing, so here is a video tutuorial of my last blog on how to create project templates in Microsoft Project 2013: Thanks for watching! Please feel free to leave comments below or check out our other blogs on Microsoft Project, Project Server, SharePoint and Project Management Methodology. Read more about Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013 Tutorial[…]

Creating a default Template location in Microsoft Project 2013

Posted on by Sinem Tepe

You will notice that in Microsoft Project 2013 out of the box there is no Personal template folder.  If you want to use this feature you need to specify a default location for your templates to be stored.  In previous versions project files would have been stored in the templates folder associated with the Project Read more about Creating a default Template location in Microsoft Project 2013[…]

Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013

Posted on by Karam Mohammed

A Project Template is an important artifact that projects should create during their closing phase. Project Templates help in quicker planning of other similar future projects which otherwise would have to be started from scratch. Creating templates save a lot of planning time as it helps the project to know the rough estimate of project Read more about Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013[…]

Five Ways To Insert Tasks In MS Project

Posted on by Debbie Perez

Inserting tasks in Microsoft Project is fairly easy, have you ever wanted to quickly insert a new task within an existing task list in your project plan? Here are five different ways to insert a new task. Typing at the top row of a blank project schedule and pressing Enter automatically adds a new task, another way is clicking Read more about Five Ways To Insert Tasks In MS Project[…]

How to Force Check-in your Schedules in PWAProject Server/Project Online/PPM

Posted on by Parthiv Bhuta

Are you having a difficult time trying to Check-in your schedule in PWA? The following steps will make it easy the next time you want to Force Check-in your schedules in PWA. Please make sure your work is properly saved before you go ahead with this exercise. From the  Home Page of PWA click on Read more about How to Force Check-in your Schedules in PWAProject Server/Project Online/PPM[…]

Dropping the ball when it comes to deadlines and budgets isn’t going to help you advance your career.

Posted on by Nichole Zimmerman

Projects can come your way fast and furious. You might be expected to create schedules in Microsoft Project with little or no training. As you start to explore Microsoft Project, you’ll soon discover that you have to learn new PM terms, new disciplined thinking of project management, new interface, and even be expected to have Read more about Dropping the ball when it comes to deadlines and budgets isn’t going to help you advance your career.[…]

Highlighting Changes in Microsoft Project 2013

Posted on by Parthiv Bhuta

One of the common complaints I hear with Project Pro 2013 is that once you make a change in the schedule the resulting effects are hard to see. Let’s start with why this is important and then look at how you can customize the highlighting to your liking. Microsoft Project is a scheduling tool and Read more about Highlighting Changes in Microsoft Project 2013[…]