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Scott is pleased with our MS Project Training

30/04/10

Dear Ivor,

Thank you for your professional approach during my recent MS Project training.

I believe the training you provided will be most beneficial to me in my endeavours towards securing employment.

I feel confident that I will have the ability to apply my new skills which will be of benefit to my self and any future employer.

I would not only use your services again in the future, but I will recommend you to what ever industry group or company I am associated with.

Thanks again.

Scott Mckeown

Select the Whole Worksheet in Excel

Select the entire worksheet by clicking on the gray square above the row numbers (and to the left of the column letters).

Why would you want to do this?

The most common use is if you want to apply common formatting to every cell.

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and change a font.

You also may wish to copy the whole sheet to another sheet or workbook without missing anything.

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MS Project Best Practice Tips

Here are 18 tips that make up “best practices” for using any version of MS Project:

1)    Set the status date when reporting progress (up to the “status date”).

2)    Autolink inserted or moved tasks should be turned Off.

3)    Split In-progress tasks should be turned Off.

4)    No unfinished work to the left of the status date.

5)    No unstarted work to the left of the status date.

6)    No started work to the right of the status date (you did not start tomorrow).

7)    No finished work to the right of the status date (you did not finish tomorrow).
     
8)    No logic on summary tasks (no predecessors, successors).

9)    Detail tasks have predecessors and successors.

10)  Detail tasks have at least one Finish to Start successor.

11)  Resources assigned to detail tasks only, not summaries.

12)  If you claim 100% on a task, it’s predecessors should be 100% complete as
        well, unless there is a Start-to-Start Relationship.

13)  Milestones do not have resources. Do you really need to work with resources in
        the first place as this really complicates things a lot. There are other easier ways
        to allocate task ownership.

14)  Generally a milestone has predecessors OR successor, but not usually both
        (this is optional).

15)  There should never be negative lag on a task. Negative lag predicts the future
        with certainty and that doesn’t exist.

16)  Too much positive lag on a task probably indicates missing tasks, or incomplete
        logic.

17)  Constratint types: You want them to be As Soon As Possible as much as you
        can. Start No Earlier Than, Finis As Late As Possible, and Finish No
        Earlier Than are tollerable. Items like Must Finsh On, Must Start On, Finish
        No Later Than, Start No Later Than are pretty much not a good thing.

18)  Eliminate constraints other than ASAP as much as practical. A task with a
        Start No Earlier Than 15/10/2009 is useless if the schedule logic has it
        starting 01/11/2009.

MS Project 2010

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This version is claimed to be the biggest upgrade in the last 10 years!

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Software Services Offered for the Gorgon Project

Fast Track Computer Solutions in Perth is now very well placed to offer Software Systems Development and Training to assist your business on many aspects of the Gorgon Project.  Contact Ivor now on (08) 9275-9188 for MS Office and Project training, development and integration.