Microsoft Project Training - MS Project Tutorial #18 - Enable Useful Menus and Toolbars

Navigating in Microsoft Project can be tricky with all the different views and tables. Users can often navigate through the menu bars although this can be a little time consuming if you want to switch specific views and tables. Microsoft Project 2003 and 2007 provides a Project Guide window that displays helpful tips and directions on related tasks, resources, tracking and reporting activities.

To add/remove the Project Guide:

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1. Select View, Toolbars.

2. Check / Uncheck Project Guide.

The Project Guide is a useful reference based on the type of task you want to perform in MS Project. Feel free to use it for the first few schedules, but after you learn a tactical technique on how to build a project schedule, you won't need it very often.

MS Project provides a view bar to quickly switch between common views. Previous versions in Microsoft Project included the View Bar by default. The 2003 and 2007 version doesn't display the View Bar by default and needs to be enabled:

To display the view bar:

1. Select View, View bar.

2. The view menu will be displayed on the left hand side.

I find display this navigation pane very useful when switching between the common delivered views and the custom views that I often create to manage the project data.

A useful tool bar to help in schedule development is the Resource Management Toolbar. During schedule development, resources will be assigned to project tasks. The resource management toolbar assists project managers in assigning resources, finding over allocations, and switching between task and resource management views.

To Enable the Resource Management Toolbar:

1. Select View, Toolbars.

2. Select the Resource Management toolbar.

There are a lot of neat features in Microsoft Project so be sure to check out all our Microsoft Project tutorials including our latest MS Project tutorial on how to build a project schedule in 10 Easy Steps.

Microsoft Project Training - MS Project Tutorial #18 - Enable Useful Menus and Toolbars

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