Project 2016-Project 2016 - Quick Reference Guide

Project 2016 - Quick Reference Guide

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This Quick Reference Card for Microsoft Project 2016 summarizes essential tasks, views, shortcuts, and workflows for building and managing a project plan.<br /><br />It explains core file actions: creating a new project, opening existing files, saving, and setting project information such as scheduling from a start or finish date and choosing a calendar. It also covers creating a custom project calendar and adjusting working days and hours.<br /><br />A major section outlines Project views and how to use them, including Gantt Chart, Task Usage, Calendar, Team Planner, and Resource Sheet. It includes options to enable the Timeline, and to sort or filter project data from the View tab.<br /><br />The guide provides a large set of keyboard shortcuts for general commands (new/open/save/print, help, zoom), navigation and view controls (page up/down, show filtered items, field settings), editing (cut/copy/paste, undo/redo, find, add task, link/unlink tasks, manual vs. auto scheduling), and basic formatting (bold/italic/underline).<br /><br />Task management topics include manual vs. auto scheduled tasks, inserting and deleting tasks, creating milestones (0-day duration), linking tasks, creating summary tasks, editing task details, adding lead/lag time, applying constraints, and splitting tasks in the Gantt chart.<br /><br />Resource management is summarized by defining the three resource types (Work, Material, Cost), showing how to add each in the Resource Sheet, assign resources to tasks via Task Information, and delay a resource start date in Task Usage view.<br /><br />Project control features include entering fixed costs, setting resource pay rates, saving a baseline, updating actual values and percent complete, viewing project statistics, and analyzing variance against the baseline.<br /><br />Finally, it introduces reporting: dashboard, resource, cost, and in-progress reports, along with steps to edit and export reports via Save As and the Export Wizard.

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Microsoft Project 2016

Quick Reference Card

project scheduling

project calendar

Gantt Chart view

task management

resource management

keyboard shortcuts

baseline and variance

project reporting