Microsoft Project Quick Trick: Quickly Impose Multiple Deadlines Throughout a Project Schedule

Posted on March 7, 2014February 27, 2020 by Parthiv Bhuta

Using the deadline feature in Microsoft Project is a great way to impose a deadline on a task, milestone, or summary in your project schedule and see whether your dynamic schedule is causing you to meet or miss that deadline… without using ‘Finish No Later Than’ or ‘Must Finish On’ scheduling constraints. Not only can Read more about Microsoft Project Quick Trick: Quickly Impose Multiple Deadlines Throughout a Project Schedule[…]

Microsoft Project Conference 2014 Sessions Now Available On Demand

Posted on March 4, 2014July 6, 2021 by Parthiv Bhuta

Recorded sessions and PowerPoint presentations from the Microsoft Project Conference 2014, held February 2 – 5, 2014 in Anaheim, California, are now available on Microsoft’s Channel 9 web site. Video recordings can be streamed on demand or downloaded for offline viewing, and the accompanying PowerPoint presentations can be viewed in your web browser or downloaded Read more about Microsoft Project Conference 2014 Sessions Now Available On Demand[…]

Microsoft Project Quick Trick: Attaching General Project Notes to the Project Summary Task

Posted on February 27, 2014February 27, 2020 by Parthiv Bhuta

Perhaps you are aware that you can use the Task Notes feature in Microsoft Project to attach work details, update history, or other notes to individual tasks in a project schedule… but what if you want to store general notes in a project that are NOT specific to an individual task? You could store a Read more about Microsoft Project Quick Trick: Attaching General Project Notes to the Project Summary Task[…]

Service Pack 1 Now Available for Microsoft Office 2013, Project 2013, and SharePoint 2013

Posted on February 26, 2014July 2, 2021 by Parthiv Bhuta

Microsoft announced today on the Office Updates blog that Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Project 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint 2013: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-the-release-of-service-pack-1-for-office-2013-and-sharepoint-2013.aspx They provide instructions and links to obtain SP1 from the Microsoft Download Center, as well as more detailed information describing the types of updates included for each Read more about Service Pack 1 Now Available for Microsoft Office 2013, Project 2013, and SharePoint 2013[…]

Link Microsoft Project Site Artifacts to One Another by Enabling Related Items in Project Server/PPM

Posted on February 25, 2014July 25, 2022 by Parthiv Bhuta

In Microsoft Project Server, we have had the ability to link project-related artifacts such as documents, issues, and risks to project tasks and to one another for quite some time. What if we want to add more types of artifacts to our Project Sites, such as team contacts, change requests, action items, and link them Read more about Link Microsoft Project Site Artifacts to One Another by Enabling Related Items in Project Server/PPM[…]

Microsoft Project Site Quick Trick: Naming New Lists and Libraries

Posted on February 21, 2014February 27, 2020 by Parthiv Bhuta

If you use Microsoft Project Server, Project Online, or SharePoint for managing projects and you have privileges to customize a Project Site, then you can supplement any built-in list or library repositories (such as risks and issues) with your own custom repositories, such as project team contact information, project change requests, or project action items Read more about Microsoft Project Site Quick Trick: Naming New Lists and Libraries[…]

It’s Officially Official: Office Web Apps Rebranded to Office Online

Posted on February 20, 2014July 6, 2021 by Parthiv Bhuta

You may have heard the rumors, but Microsoft officially announced today on the Office Blogs that their previously-named Office Web Apps — an online version of the popular Microsoft Office programs — have been renamed as Office Online. When you visit the Office.com web site, you are now greeted with a clean-looking request to try Read more about It’s Officially Official: Office Web Apps Rebranded to Office Online[…]

Quick Trick: Align Tasks and Gantt Bars with Grid Lines

Posted on February 18, 2014February 27, 2020 by Parthiv Bhuta

Sometimes it can be difficult to visually align task rows in Microsoft Project with their corresponding shapes in the Gantt Chart: We can fix that in about 30 seconds by simply adding horizontal grid lines to the Gantt Chart to help align the left task rows with the Gantt shapes. Click the ‘Format’ tab in Read more about Quick Trick: Align Tasks and Gantt Bars with Grid Lines[…]