The Best Ten Microsoft Project Tips for Beginners

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Written by Praveen Malik
Praveen Malik, PMP, has two-plus decades of experience as a project management instructor and consultant. He regularly conducts project management workshops in India and abroad and shares his project management thinking in his blog, PM by PM.
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  1. When defining your task list and its hierarchy, i like to do this in a bullet list in word as you don’t get distracted with predecessors, durations and other complications.
    The other benefit is that when you paste a bulleted list from Word, it retains the hierarchy

  2. Nice article Preveen. I look forward to viewing your others as well. I wish I knew how to associate different project calendars to tasks. The nature of what I am scheduling includes contractors who do not have the same work schedule. While the default project calendar is the standard work week, you can associate different calendars to different tasks.

  3. Nice tips. It would be useful to have something similar for setting up printing out a schedule. This has always been a very daunting part of using MS Project.

  4. Hi Adria,

    Did you catch yesterday’s webinar on Understanding Calendars and Scheduling in Microsoft Project? It’s available on-demand: https://mpug.com/webnlearn-recordings/understanding-calendars-and-scheduling-in-microsoft-project/

    – Team MPUG

  5. Hi Dennis,

    We recently covered printing in part 3 of our Mastering Microsoft Project Visualization course. You can watch it on-demand: https://mpug.com/webnlearn-recordings/mastering-microsoft-project-visualization-part-3-printing-in-microsoft-project-demystified/

    – Team MPUG

  6. As a new project user 10 months) I have to say that these tips are pretty spot on.

  7. Nice Thanks for sharing…..

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