Microsoft Project 2010 Benefits – don’t waste money on MSP 2013 and 2016 this version is much cheaper and has ALL the features you need!
Microsoft Project 2010 represents a quantum leap in improved features and User benefits that are still at the leading edge today.
Here is a hot rundown of the juicy goodies that will make Microsoft Project 2010 your favorite project planning and control tool:
Ribbon User Interface
This has got to be top of the list for improving the efficiency for any user. The big advantage is that unlike previous versions where you needed to make multiple clicks to unearth the command you were looking for, the ribbon makes many of the popular commands just one click and it’s done!
The Ribbon tabs are a breeze to learn and frequent commands include:
- switching summary tasks on and off
- Formatting task bars
- Inserting sub tasks and milestones
- Showing critical path task
- Formatting task bars
- Filtering, sorting, and grouping of tasks
- Switching between tasks and resources
- Saving views and tables
When you have tailored a view you can save it with one click, and Microsoft project 2010 will automatically copy your tailoring to the global template or keep them in your local file if you wish.
Microsoft Project 2010 Top-down planning
Microsoft project keeps track of any summary task specified duration, and advise you if the total schedule of its sub tasks can fit within the time-frame of the summary task duration. As you can see, when using Manual scheduling you can set for the duration or summary tasks which is a useful feature if you have been told the maximum allowable time-frame.
Easy formatting
When you right click on one or more sales, a mini toolbar appears along with formatting commands for aspects such as font characteristics and colour. In addition, depending on you selecting a single task, using the right hand mouse button will cause the mini toolbar to include percentage complete buttons for that task.
Fast filtering, grouping and sorting
The Microsoft project 2010 auto filter is switched on by default and this allows you to filter a table by clicking the down arrow in any column heading which causes a drop down menu to appear with convenient choices for sorting, grouping, or filtering.
Summary bars and sub tasks
For your convenience, Microsoft project 2010 now includes an summary command which allows you to create a new summary bar with one sub task already inserted below it. Or you have to do is to type in its task name. You can grab a handful of several tasks and again you use the insert a summary command to make them all sub tasks of this new summary task.
Long name wrapping
The task name column by default, wraps any text within it to show the full text within the current width of the column. You can also edit these settings to wrap its contents.
User controlled scheduling
With Microsoft project 2010, you can set a manually scheduled mode of operation to allow the user to determine when a task is scheduled. Don’t worry, you can still set they constraints as before. As you might expect, you still have the choice to set scheduling to the auto scheduled mode.
The project timeline
You can choose to show or hide this very useful feature, which shows the date range for your project as a simple horizontal bar. You can pan and zoom and move forward or backward in time by simply dragging the end of the timeline bar.
Adding new tasks to the timeline is a snap allowing you to illustrate a simple high-level view of part of your project, or all of it. You can even copy and paste the timeline into an email message or to use it as part of a presentation for example using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Leveling over allocations
Utilizing the resource tab of the new Ribbon allows you to simply grabbed leveling commands as well as the ability to level only selected tasks or resources.
Quick select views
The Microsoft project 2010 now has a helpful icons within the status bar the allows you to display most of the common views such as the Gantt chart, resource sheet, team planner, and the resource’s and task usage views.
Flexible column changes
You now have an insert column command giving you would drop down list allowing you to and the field that you wish. In addition you can add an extra column by clicking the ad new column command. Clever project even interprets what it is you are typing that use the appropriate type of custom fields.
Task placeholder information
When commencing your planning, you may not know too much information about a specific task, but you can now create a manually scheduled task and just fill in what information you have to hand. This is called a placeholder task.
The team planner view
This uses swimlanes to show tasks assigned to resources making it a snap to identify any unassigned or unscheduled tasks. Any tasks which have yet to be a assigned are piled together ready for you to track on to the timescale. This makes scheduling as simple as drag and drop as well as helping you to easily identify any unassigned tasks or over-allocated resources.
What-If scenarios
You can add tasks to your schedule to realize alternatives for a part of your project and evaluate the results. You could also create tasks for any proposed change requests and then inactivate those tasks. By doing this you can keep them insight although they will not impact your project schedule. If you want to make such changes permanent in the future you can simply reactivate the tasks keeping all of their data that was originally entered.
Highlighting scheduling issues
Microsoft project 2010 helps you zero in on scheduling problems by underlining such task values with rates squiggles just like misspellings are identified in Microsoft word. Just right click with the mouse to get a shortcut menu of suitable commands to help you resolve the issue.
The task inspector pane
This powerful view helps you to zero win on those aspects that influence the task schedule such as constraints and predecessors. The task inspector goes further by offering you commands that would fix the problem allowing you to decide which action to best take.
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