Book Description
* Delivers more than 600 two-color pages to help visually oriented project managers master the software, understand how changes affect the overall schedule, meet major milestones and deadlines, and get the job done on time and within budget
* Helps new users get up to speed quickly and walks the estimated four million current Project users through new program features
* Contains hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots that show how to accomplish more than 300 tasks, from opening projects, defining task relationships, and assigning resources to evaluating progress and costs, resolving scheduling and resource conflicts, and creating professional-looking status reports

From the Back Cover
"One picture is worth a thousand words." If you prefer instructions that show you how rather than tell you why, then this comprehensive reference is for you. Hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots reveal how to accomplish more than 300 Project 2003 tasks–creating projects, assigning resources, and more. You’ll see how to: Set up project calendars Enter task notes Manage resource rate changes Highlight a project’s critical path Level resources automatically Save an interim plan Coordinate multiple projects Compare expected to actual costs Select an earned value calculation method Use Project Web Access "I have several books from the Visual series and have always found them to be valuable resources." – Stephen P. Miller (Ballston Spa, NY) "I am an avid fan of your Visual books. If I need to learn anything, I just buy one of your books and learn the topic in no time. Wonders! I have even trained my friends to give me Visual books as gifts." – Illona Bergstrom (Aventura, FL) "Master It" sidebars answer questions and present shortcuts High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task Succinct explanations walk you through step by step Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author
Elaine Marmel is president of Marmel Enterprises, LLC, an organization that specializes in technical writing and software training. She routinely employs project management software and skills to manage critical business projects, and otherwise spends most of her time writing. Elaine has authored or coauthored more than 30 books about software, including Project, Word for Windows, Word for the Mac, Quicken for Windows, Quicken for DOS, 1-2-3 for Windows, Lotus Notes, and Excel. Elaine is a contributing editor to the monthly magazines Peachtree Extra and QuickBooks Extra.
Elaine left her native Chicago for the warmer climes of Florida (by way of Cincinnati, Ohio; Jerusalem, Israel; Ithaca, New York; and Washington, D.C.) where she gazes longingly out her window and dreams about basking in the sun (if she could ever find the time) with her dog, Josh, and her cats, Cato, Watson, and Buddy. Elaine also sings in the Toast of Tampa, an International Champion Sweet Adeline barbershop chorus.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

* Delivers more than 600 two-color pages to help visually oriented project managers master the software, understand how changes affect the overall schedule, meet major milestones and deadlines, and get the job done on time and within budget
* Helps new users get up to speed quickly and walks the estimated four million current Project users through new program features
* Contains hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots that show how to accomplish more than 300 tasks, from opening projects, defining task relationships, and assigning resources to evaluating progress and costs, resolving scheduling and resource conflicts, and creating professional-looking status reports

SYNOPSIS

"One picture is worth a thousand words." If you prefer instructions that show you how rather than tell you why, then this comprehensive reference is for you. Hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots reveal how to accomplish more than 300 Project 2003 tasks—creating projects, assigning resources, and more. You’ll see how to: Set up project calendars Enter task notes Manage resource rate changes Highlight a project’s critical path Level resources automatically Save an interim plan Coordinate multiple projects Compare expected to actual costs Select an earned value calculation method Use Project Web Access

"I have several books from the Visual series and have always found them to be valuable resources." — Stephen P. Miller (Ballston Spa, NY)