3. Starting a Project

In This Chapter

Starting a new blank project

Starting projects from templates or other file formats

Setting options for new projects

Saving your project

Setting up calendars

This chapter covers how to create and save new projects and the basic options that control how your project is scheduled. You will also learn how to set up the calendars that Project 2013 uses to schedule your project work.

The process of creating a project in Project 2013 begins before work is done on any part of a project, before the project schedule is set, and before tasks are even identified. Creating a new project in Project 2013 means simply setting up the framework for the project plan and making some decisions about how the project ...

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