project 2003 tutorial

[jbennett]

I need help learning how to use project 2003. It would help greatly if there
was a tutorial that I could watch.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi jbennett ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

wrote:

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Project is a sufficiently complex application that watching a tutorial won't
be enough. Start with a good tutorial book - I currently recommend "MS
PRoject Step-by-Step from Microsoft Press - and read it cover to cover,
several times. If possible attend a formal training course - 2 days as a
minimum and 5 days is better if you can find one.

 

[davegb]

Project is a sufficiently complex application that watching a tutorial won't
be enough. Start with a good tutorial book - I currently recommend "MS
PRoject Step-by-Step from Microsoft Press - and read it cover to cover,
several times. If possible attend a formal training course - 2 days as a
minimum and 5 days is better if you can find one.

How does that Step by Step book handle linking? The last time I looked
at one, which has been a few versions back, it instructed you to link
by clicking on a column header in the Gantt table, and clicking the
Link icon. Needless to say, this presupposes that all projects are
linked from task 1 through the last task, and links each summary task
to the next below it. (Let's ignore the difference of opinions here
about linking summary lines) Is that still the case, or does it now
teach that linking is crucial to making a schedule work, and must be
done manually, one task at a time, usually?

 

[ja202141]

jbennett,

I agree with Steve. Watching it won't be enough. After going through all
the training you can find, I would pick a home project that you have on your
list and develop a project out of it within MS Project. That really helped
me get started.

Good luck!