MS Project Standard 2002 Upgrade

MS Project Standard 2002 Upgrade ... and resources, and analyze project information more efficiently than ever before. With more intuitive tools, Microsoft Project Standard enables you to get started faster and stay informed, so that projects stay on track and within budget. Get productive immediately by using the new Project Guide. Its step-by-step, interactive instructions guide you through building a new project, managing tasks and resources, tracking your project, and reporting project information. Get tighter integration with and smoother transitions between Microsoft Project and other Microsoft programs. For example, you can import task lists created in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook directly into Microsoft Project. Use helpful new wizards to simplify the process of setting up and tracking project schedules. Plus, get more of the convenient features in Office, such as the keyboard shortcuts, text wrapping, and column adjustments. Enhanced Help provides timely and relevant assistance as you work. New smart tags let you know when resource reassignments and other changes affect the project schedule, along with other helpful options. Manage your projects by using a new wizard to select and customize your preferred mode for tracking projects. Use new options to adjust the way Microsoft Project calculates actual results and remaining work based on the status date of a project.

Now you can better track the progress of your projects, monitor the variances between project estimates and actual results, and maintain historical records. Save and store more than 10 full baselines over the course of any project. Assigning the best resource to your tasks is easy. Use improved searching and filtering capabilities and new graphs to identify the appropriate resources for your projects. Better understand your projects by using improved grouping and information displays within the Network Diagram and usage views. Display three time scales in Gantt Chart and usage views, and print column totals in usage views. Now you can customize Microsoft Project with greater flexibility - thanks to a new Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based file format, an extended object model, improved support for COM add-ins, and an enhanced OLE database provider.