Project 2013 For Dummies^®

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About Project 2013 For Dummies

Foolish Assumptions

Conventions Used in This Book

What You Don’t Have to Read

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting Started with Project 2013

Part II: Managing Resources

Part III: Before You Baseline

Part IV: Staying on Track

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Project 2013

Chapter 1: Project Management, Project 2013, and You

Introducing Project Management

Defining project manager

Identifying what a project manager does

Introducing Project 2013

Getting to Know You

Navigating file tabs and the Ribbon

Displaying more tools

Finding Help in Project

Chapter 2: Starting the Project

Creating the Project Charter

Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Organizing the Work

Starting the Project

Entering project information

Weighing manual scheduling versus automatic scheduling

Entering the WBS

Entering tasks

Importing tasks from Outlook

Promoting and demoting: The outdent-and-indent shuffle

Saving the Project

Chapter 3: Becoming a Task Master

Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks

How many levels can you go?

The project summary task

Moving Tasks Up, Down, and All Around

Moving tasks with the drag-and-drop method

Moving tasks with the cut-and-paste (or copy-and-paste) method

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Collapsing and Expanding the Task Outline

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