Project® 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

5. Working with Resources

In This Chapter

• Understand how to add resources to your project

• Understand resource properties and settings

• Understand how to assign resources to tasks

• Understand editing assignments and reassigning tasks

This chapter shows you how resources work and how to create and edit them. It shows you how to assign resources to tasks and how to fine-tune those assignments so they match how the work is done on your project. This chapter also shows you how to reassign work from one resource to another.

In Project, the people, things, and money necessary to get the tasks in your project done are called resources. By adding resources to your project, you make them available to assign to tasks within your project. Resources ...