Project managers everywhere
rely on Microsoft Office Project Standard to plan and manage
their projects. With Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003,
efficiently organize and track tasks and resources to keep your
projects on time and within budget. Extensive help resources and
printing assistance make Project Standard 2003 easy to learn, so
that you can be productive quickly.
Project Standard 2003 is an integral part of the Microsoft
Office System, so you can smoothly use products like Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2003 and Microsoft Office Visio 2003 to
present project status effectively. And, as a user of the
leading desktop project management program, support is readily
available through a broad community of solution providers and
user groups.
Learn Quickly. Get productive quickly with built-in help,
wizards, and the familiar Microsoft Office interface.
- Guided planning and management. Quickly master the project
management process with the Project Guide, a step-by-step,
interactive aide that helps you set up projects, manage tasks
and resources, track schedules, and report project information.
- Find help as you need it. Access built-in online help to get
the latest training, articles, templates, and other resources to
help you use Project Standard 2003 more effectively. Use
Spotlights in the Help task pane to access project-related
services and features to help you work smarter. Assistance on
Office Online provides up-to-date Help resources and references
for Project Standard 2003. Easily get the information you need
by selecting a pre-defined topic or searching for keywords.
- Get timely and relevant assistance as you work with smart tags
that alert you to alternate choices when you make changes to
your plan, helping ensure your project plans are scheduled
correctly.
- Create project plans efficiently. Save time by quickly
converting existing task lists created in Microsoft Office Excel
2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 into project plans. Or,
use one of the many templates provided with Project Standard
2003 as a starting point for your project.
Track and Evaluate Plans. Create schedules, estimate costs, and
track progress with comprehensive project management tools.
- Assign resources. You can assign resources to your tasks and
adjust them to resolve conflicts and over-allocations. Add
resources from the Active Directory service or Microsoft
Exchange Server address book.
- Compare project plan versions. Easily track version changes in
project plans by using the Compare Project Versions tool.
Graphical indicators clearly identify differences between
versions, such as tasks added or deleted.
- Evaluate changes. Keep your project plan on time and within
budget by efficiently evaluating the impact of schedule and
resources changes on your plan. Project Standard 2003 can update
your plans automatically so you can prioritize work effectively
and make better decisions.
- Track performance. Track progress, monitor variances between
target and actual project goals such as cost, start date, and
finish date, and maintain historical records with the ability to
store 11 full baselines over the course of any project.
Communicate clearly and present project information in a variety
of ways.
- Generate predefined reports. Report your data using a set of
predefined reports to print out the task, resource, assignment,
or cost information you want to share. Or, use a wizard to
generate an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file from project
data to create custom reports.
- Format and print custom reports. In the past, creating
formatted printed reports of project data was cumbersome. Now
you can follow an easy step-by-step guide in Project Standard
2003 to format and print your current view of project
information as a report.
- Present project data in other programs. The Copy Picture to
Office wizard enables you to present project information in a
number of familiar programs.
- Share project plans. Share your project plan with others in
your organization by saving it to a central workspace on a
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site. Windows SharePoint
Services is a component of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Use
the Shared Workspace task pane to view lists of people who have
access to a shared workspace, files stored there, and other
useful information.
Align Project Standard 2003 to meet your project management
needs.
- Customize project plans. Customize your plan by choosing the
data to display in your project schedule. Incorporate
information unique to your project by creating Custom Fields in
your project plan. Modify toolbars, formulas, graphical
indicators, and reports for further customization.
- Customize Project Guides. Promote project management
methodologies and best practices by developing custom Project
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