Microsoft Project 2013
Microsoft Official Academic Course Series, Vol. 380

This Microsoft Project 2013 book is the only Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) textbook. This series includes a complete classroom instructional program. This Project 2013 text is designed to re–enforce workforce skills. With this book students learn to manage project resources, task assignments and scheduling. They will also learn about the integration and tracking of multiple projects and programs. Skills mastery of Project 2013 can help students with classwork and differentiate job hunters in todays competitive job market.

Lesson 1: Project Basics 1

Lesson 2: Establishing Resources 37

Lesson 3: Resource and Task Assignments 59

Lesson 4: Refining Your Project Schedule 76

Lesson 5: Fine–Tuning Tasks 101

Circling Back 1 117

Lesson 6: Fine–Tuning Resources 121

Lesson 7: Project Information: Sorting, Grouping, and Filtering 142

Lesson 8: Project Schedule Formatting Fundamentals 161

Lesson 9: Project Schedule Tracking Fundamentals 182

Lesson 10: Project Reporting 199

Circling Back 2 221

Lesson 11: Advanced Project Schedule Tracking 224

Lesson 12: Integrating Microsoft Project with Other Programs 240

Lesson 13: Project Schedule Optimization 255

Lesson 14: Advanced Project Schedule Formatting 277

Lesson 15: Managing Multiple Projects 294

Lesson 16: Working with Resource Pools 307

Lesson 17: Customizing Microsoft Project 328

Circling Back 3 341

The Microsoft Official Academic Course series is a complete program for instructors and institutions to prepare and deliver great courses on Microsoft software technologies. With MOAC, we recognize that, because of the rapid pace of change in the technology and curriculum developed by Microsoft, there is an ongoing set of needs beyond classroom instruction tools for an instructor to be ready to teach the course. MOAC endeavors to provide solutions for all these needs in a systematic manner in order to ensure a successful and rewarding course experience for both instructor and student—technical and curriculum training for instructor readiness with new software releases, the software itself for student use at home for building hands-on skills, assessment and validation of skill development, and a great set of tools for delivering instruction in the classroom and lab. All are important to the smooth delivery of an interesting course on Microsoft software, and all are provided with the Microsoft Official Academic Course program.