HISTORY OF MICROSOFT PROJECT (MUJI)

Alan M. Boyd was the one who first proposed Microsoft Project to be used internally in the organization. Boyd wrote the specification and engaged a local Seattle company to develop the prototype. The Commercial Versions of Microsoft Project is as follows: 1. MSP Version 1 released in 1984 for DOS. This is the first commercial version. 2. MSP Version 2 released in 1985 for DOS. Microsoft bought all rights to the software in 985. 3. MSP Version 3 released in 1986 for DOS. 4. The Last version of MS Project for DOS is released in 1986. 5. The first version for Windows is released in 1990. It was named as version 1. 6. The first version for Macintosh was released in 1991. But after 1993 Microsoft stop making Mac application until 1998. The last version is MSP 4.0 made in 1993. The last version of MS project does not run on Mac OS X. 7. After releasing 2 versions for Windows in 1992(v3), 1993(v4), the first MS project with MS office is launched in 1995. 8. MSP 98 is launched with Microsoft Office 98 with office looking menus. 9. In 2000 (10.0) MSP launched its next versions. 10. In 2003 again with MS Office, MSP (11.0) new version was launched. 11. In 2007, MS Office applications like MS-Word, MS-Excel etc. change their menu style and come up with ribbon based view but MSP newer version is launched with older interface. MSP 12.0 was also released. 12. The Latest version of MSP (14.0) was launched in 2010 with MS office. The newer version has Ribbon based view like other Office applications. This new version is better than its previous versions in GUI as well as in Back end Support. SHORTCUTS AND COMMANDS (NAJ)
Use the Network Diagram view
TO DO THIS Move to a different Network Diagram box. Add Network Diagram boxes to the selection. Move a Network Diagram box. NOTE Manual positioning must be set first. Select the box you want to move. On the Format tab, click Layout in theFormat group. Click Allow manual box positioning. Move to the top Network Diagram box in the view or project. Move to the lowest Network Diagram box in the project. Move to the leftmost Network Diagram box in the project. PRESS Arrow keys SHIFT+Arrow keys CTRL+Arrow keys

CTRL+HOME or SHIFT+CTRL+HOME CTRL+END or SHIFT+CTRL+END HOME or SHIFT+HOME

Move to the rightmost Network Diagram box in the project. Move up one window height. Move down one window height. Move left one window width. Move right one window width. Select the next field in the Network Diagram box. Select the previous field in the Network Diagram box.

END or SHIFT+END PAGE UP or SHIFT+PAGE UP PAGE DOWN or SHIFT+PAGE DOWN CTRL+PAGE UP or SHIFT+CTRL+PAGE UP CTRL+PAGE DOWN or SHIFT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN ENTER or TAB SHIFT+ENTER

Navigate views and windows

TO DO THIS Activate the Control menu. Activate the entry bar to edit text in a field. Activate the menu bar. Activate the project control menu. Activate the split bar. Close the program window. Display all filtered tasks or all filtered resources. Display the Field Settings dialog box. Open a new window. Reduce a selection to a single field. Reset sort order to ID order and turn off grouping. Select a drawing object. Display task information. Display resource information. Display assignment information. Turn on or off the Add To Selection mode. Turn on or off Auto Calculate. Turn on or off the Extend Selection mode. Move left, right, up, or down to view different pages in the Print Preview window. PRESS ALT+SPACEBAR F2 F10 or ALT ALT+HYPHEN SHIFT+F6 ALT+F4 F3 ALT+F3 SHIFT+F11 SHIFT+BACKSPACE SHIFT+F3 F6 SHIFT+F2 SHIFT+F2 SHIFT+F2 SHIFT+F8 CTRL+F9 F8 ALT+Arrow keys

Outline a project

TO DO THIS Hide subtasks. Indent the selected task. Show subtasks. Show all tasks. Outdent the selected task.

PRESS ALT+SHIFT+HYPHEN or ALT+SHIFT+MINUS SIGN (minus sign on the numeric keypad) ALT+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW ALT+SHIFT+ = or ALT+SHIFT+PLUS SIGN (plus sign on the numeric keypad) ALT+SHIFT+* (asterisk on the numeric keypad) ALT+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW

Select and edit in a dialog box

TO DO THIS Move between fields at the bottom of a form. Move into tables at the bottom of a form. Move to the next task or resource. Move to the previous task or resource. PRESS Arrow keys ALT+1 (left) or ALT+2 (right) ENTER SHIFT+ENTER

Select and edit in a sheet view Edit in a view

TO DO THIS Cancel an entry. Clear or reset the selected field. Copy the selected data. Cut the selected data. Delete the selected data. Delete row that has a selected cell. Fill down. Display the Find dialog box. In the Find dialog box, continue to the next instance of the search results. PRESS ESC CTRL+DELETE CTRL+C CTRL+X DELETE CTRL+MINUS SIGN (on the numeric keypad) CTRL+D CTRL+F or SHIFT+F5 SHIFT+F4

Use the Go To command (Edit menu). Link tasks. Paste the copied or cut data. Reduce the selection to one field. Undo the last action. Unlink tasks. Set the task to manually schedule Set the task to auto schedule

F5 CTRL+F2 CTRL+V SHIFT+BACKSPACE CTRL+Z CTRL+SHIFT+F2 CTRL+SHIFT+M CTRL+SHIFT+A

Move in a view

TO DO THIS Move to the beginning of a project (timescale). Move to the end of a project (timescale). Move the timescale left. Move the timescale right. Move to the first field in a row. Move to the first row. Move to the first field of the first row. Move to the last field in a row. Move to the last field of the last row. Move to the last row.
Move in the side pane

PRESS ALT+HOME ALT+END ALT+LEFT ARROW ALT+RIGHT ARROW HOME or CTRL+LEFT ARROW CTRL+UP ARROW CTRL+HOME END or CTRL+RIGHT ARROW CTRL+END CTRL+DOWN ARROW

TO DO THIS Move focus between the side pane and the view on the right side. Select different controls in the side pane if focus is in the side pane. Select or clear check boxes and option buttons if focus is in the side pane.

PRESS CTRL+TAB or CTRL+SHIFT+TAB TAB SPACEBAR

Select in a view

TO DO THIS Extend the selection down one page. Extend the selection up one page. Extend the selection down one row. Extend the selection up one row. Extend the selection to the first field in a row. Extend the selection to the last field in a row. Extend the selection to the start of the information. Extend the selection to the end of the information. Extend the selection to the first row. Extend the selection to the last row. Extend the selection to the first field of the first row. Extend the selection to the last field of the last row. Select all rows and columns. Select a column. Select a row. Move within a selection down one field. Move within a selection up one field. Move within a selection right one field. Move within a selection left one field.

PRESS SHIFT+PAGE DOWN SHIFT+PAGE UP SHIFT+DOWN ARROW SHIFT+UP ARROW SHIFT+HOME SHIFT+END CTRL+SHIFT+HOME CTRL+SHIFT+END CTRL+SHIFT+UP ARROW CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW CTRL+SHIFT+HOME CTRL+SHIFT+END CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR CTRL+SPACEBAR SHIFT+SPACEBAR ENTER SHIFT+ENTER TAB SHIFT+TAB

Select and edit in the entry bar

TO DO THIS Accept an entry. Cancel an entry.

PRESS ENTER ESC

Delete one character to the left. Delete one character to the right. Delete one word to the right. Extend the selection to the end of the text. Extend the selection to the start of the text. Turn on or off Overtype mode.

BACKSPACE DELETE CTRL+DELETE SHIFT+END SHIFT+HOME INSERT

Use a timescale

TO DO THIS Move the timescale right one page. Move the timescale to beginning of the project. Move the timescale to end of the project. Scroll the timescale left. Scroll the timescale right. Show smaller time units. Show larger time units.

PRESS ALT+PAGE DOWN ALT+HOME ALT+END ALT+LEFT ARROW ALT+RIGHT ARROW CTRL+ / (slash on the numeric keypad) CTRL+* (asterisk on the numeric keypad)

Move the timescale left one page. ALT+PAGE UP

*For keyboard shortcuts in which you press two or more keys simultaneously, the keys to press are separated by a plus sign (+) in Microsoft Project Help. For keyboard shortcuts in which you press one key immediately followed by another key, the keys to press are separated by a comma (,). II. Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Microsoft Project Standard 2010 (JAM AND HASNIAH) Microsoft Project Professional 2010 is a project managers software that gives project managers a new and easier way to manage wide range of projects and programs. With all of the new updates and visual enhancements of Project Standard 2010, Project Professional 2010 delivers more with at-a-glance resource management and team collaboration tools using Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, to successfully complete all types of projects. And, utilizing Project Professional 2010, you and your organization can realize the results of unified project and portfolio management by adding Microsoft Project Server 2010. Microsoft Project Standard 2010 is project managing software which gives Microsoft project managers a new and easier way to manage projects. With significant updates and visual

enhancements, this project manager software delivers better experiences to simply be more productive and successfully complete all types of projects. A. Whats New? (JESSA) 1. Microsoft Fluent User Interface Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive Microsoft Fluent user interfacenew graphical menus and a familiar experience provide the tools you need to plan and manage your project. Task-oriented tabs and contextual menu groupings reveal powerful features, making it easier to get started and realize results. Learn about features and rich formatting controls quickly with descriptive tooltips and drop-down galleries. Simply be more productive by choosing your own menu options, quick access toolbar settings and setting defaults. Save to XPS or PDF. Quickly share, print, and publish project information from one location using the new Microsoft Office Backstage view. 2. Excel-Like Flexibility & Ease Enhanced copy and paste makes it easy to share information effectively with other Microsoft Office applications while retaining formatting. Add columns dynamically by entering data without having to first select the data type. Simplify data entry with auto-complete which displays a list of previously used values to select from. Automatic text wrap eliminates extra formatting steps by adjusting row height to display full task names. Quickly mine data and analyze results with easy access filtering for all columns. Create emphasis with rich color options and text formatting to express ideas and solve problems in new ways. 3. User-Controlled Scheduling Gain flexibility with user-controlled schedulingmanually schedule tasks with the information you have right now or choose to automatically schedule tasks with calculated dates and durations. Be alerted to potential scheduling concerns with squiggly lines and choose how to manage potential problems. Gain insight with the Task Inspector to recognize issues and take action earlysolving problems before they occur. Support rolling wave planning and easily create high level forecasts using manually scheduled top down summary tasks. Identify gaps by comparing manually scheduled summary tasks with information rolled up from subtasks. In Microsoft Project Professional 2010, you can simplify planning with inactive and active tasks to perform what-if analysis. 4. Timeline View Simply create the ultimate graphical timeline to express your schedule and plan. It's easier to see and sharedrill into details and visually recognize differences with a clear view of tasks, milestones, and phases. Reach your audience with new impact by quickly copying the timeline into an email, presentation, or any other document with formatting retained. 5. Team Planner (Microsoft Project Professional 2010 only)

Visualize the right mix of resources and assignments with a simple and intuitive resource view. Simply drag-and-drop to effectively plan tasks and optimize resources for your entire team and project. Quickly identify unassigned or unscheduled tasks to proactively solve problems. Simply hover over tasks to instantly view task-level details to plan with ease. Be visually alerted to potential problems, choose to manually level resources as you work. Automatically level over allocated resources on a task-by-task basis using Task Inspector to instantly resolve problems. 6. Connected Teams (Microsoft Project Professional 2010 only) Enhance team collaboration by sharing information more efficientlysimply save, print or publish in one easy-to-manage Microsoft Office Backstage view. Convert Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 task lists to realize project schedules. Publish your project plans to SharePoint Foundation 2010 task lists so team members can update task statusautomatically synchronize to receive updates directly into your project plans. Save, share and managesimply be more connected in the ways you expect with Project Professional 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. Connect Project Professional 2010 with Microsoft Project Server 2010 and gain control across all types of work, improve project selection and strategic alignment, maximize resource utilization and visualize performance through powerful dashboards. B. Top benefits of Microsoft Project 2010 (JAM) 1. Familiar and intuitive. 2. Save time and effort. 3. Flexible and powerful. 4. Easier to see and share. 5. At-a-glance. 6. Control and deliver. 7. Evaluate possibilities. 8. Collaborate with others. 9. Grow capabilities. 10. Enhance performance. C. Which Edition Of Project Is Right For You? Simplified Navigation Microsoft Project Standard 2010 Microsoft Project Professional 2010 New Timeline At-A-Glance Resource Management Flexible Scheduling Easier Collaboration

Simplified Navigation - New graphical menus and a more intuitive experience make every action easier. New Timeline - With a clearer view of tasks, milestones, and phases, your timelines are easier to see and share. Flexible Scheduling - Reduce complexity with the ability to choose the level of detail that's right for your project. At-A-Glance Resource Management - Visually create the right mix of resourcesit's as easy as drag-and-drop. Easier Collaboration - Connect your teams with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 synchronization or Microsoft Project Server 2010. III. Microsoft Project Server 2010 (KARL) Microsoft Project Server 2010 brings together the business collaboration platform services of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with structured execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions. Project Server 2010 unifies project and portfolio management to help organizations align resources and investments with business priorities, gain control across all types of work, and visualize performance through powerful dashboards. A. Whats New? 1. Unified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) In Project 2010, the best-of-breed portfolio management techniques of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 are included in Project Server 2010, providing a single server with end-to-end project and portfolio management (PPM) capabilities. Familiar SharePoint user interface throughout the solution. Common data store eliminating the need for the Project Server Gateway. Intuitive and simplified administration. Localized portfolio selection capabilities. Comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) including both project and portfolio capabilities. 2. Built on SharePoint Server 2010 Project Server 2010 is built on top of SharePoint Server 2010, bringing together the powerful business collaboration platform services and structured execution capabilities to provide flexible work management solutions. Gain additional value from the Microsoft platform. Take advantage of the Business Intelligence platform to easily create reports and powerful dashboards. Control document review and approval through workflow. Enterprise search makes it easy to find people and effectively mine project data (resources, tasks, documents etc.). Connect teams and enhance communication with wikis, blogs, discussion forums and My Sites. 3. Project Initiation & Business Case Development Project Server 2010 provides a new demand management module to capture all work from simple tasks to complex projects and programs.

Develop and deploy effective governance workflows to manage project investments throughout their lifecycle and drive accountability and control. Define Enterprise Project Types for all requests and associate with workflow, a project plan and a custom workspace template. Standardize data collection through configurable business case forms. Capture project information, cost estimates, resource estimates, strategic alignment assessments and more. Display relevant Enterprise Project Types for each line of business using departmental fields. 4. Portfolio Selection Project Server 2010 helps organizations select project portfolios that align with their business strategy by providing techniques to prioritize competing requests, run optimization scenarios under varying budgetary constraints and maximize resource utilization across the planning horizon. 5. Business Strategy Prioritization Objectively prioritize business drivers and drive consensus across the executive team. Intuitive and visual interface for completing the business driver prioritization assessment. 6. Portfolio Prioritization and Optimization Effectively prioritize projects from multiple dimensions strategic value, financial value, and risk. Select the optimal portfolio of projects while meeting budgetary and other constraints. Enhanced optimization interface surfaces powerful analytical views (e.g. Efficient Frontier) to improve decision making. Better understand trade-offs with Force In/Out descriptive values. Compare optimization scenarios side by side with snapshot scorecard. 7. Capacity Planning (ORVEN) Gain insight into generic resource demand and availability across the planning horizon. Reschedule projects within the horizon to maximize resource utilization while adhering to schedule dependencies. Model headcount decisions and compare scenarios. 8. Web-Based Project Editing Project Server 2010 brings the power of Project Professional 2010 to the browser with Web-based Project Editing. Easily build schedules online and conveniently make simple project edits from anywhere. Gain flexibility with user controlled scheduling manually schedule tasks with the information you have right now or automatically schedule tasks to have Project calculate durations and dates. Create projects with more than 100 tasks, assign multiple resources, and easily define task hierarchy and dependencies. Gain insight with change highlighting and multi-level undo. 9. Fluent User Interface Microsoft Project 2010 delivers a consistent experience across Project Standard 2010, Project Professional 2010 and Project Server 2010 through the Fluent user interface. Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive Ribbon, so the tools you need to plan and manage your project are always at your fingertips. Task oriented tabs and context sensitive menu groupings make finding and performing activities easier.

Task oriented tabs and context sensitive menu groupings make finding and performing activities easier. 10. Time Reporting Enhancements Save time and unify task status updates and timesheet submissions by enabling Single Entry Mode. Flexible and consistent interface enhances the time reporting experience. Conveniently approve timesheet and task status updates through the consolidated Approval Center. Simply delegate approvals with enhanced user delegation. 11. Exchange Server Integration Choose to receive and update your project task status in Microsoft Office Outlook. Project tasks are shown as Outlook tasks grouped by project name. No Outlook add-in required. Stay connected with notifications and updates through Outlook and Outlook Web App. 12. Enhanced Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) Experience the strength and depth of Microsoft Business Intelligence platform. Gain transparency and control with Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Visio Services, PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and SQL Reporting Services. Get started quickly with predefined best practice and localized report templates in the new Business Intelligence Center. Intuitively customize reports in a familiar Excel editor and publish through Excel Services. Simply create powerful audience-based dashboards to effectively monitor portfolio performance. Satisfy line of business reporting requirements with Departmental Cubes. Allow decision makers to focus on their data, eliminate unnecessary clutter and ensure faster cube build times. 13. Simplified Administration Project Permissions Empower project managers to control who can view or edit their projects with Project Permissions. User Delegation Enhanced delegation enables users to easily specify colleagues to act as their delegate when on vacation, without assistance from the administrator. Departmental Fields Provide a level of autonomy while maintaining enterprise standardization and control. With Departmental Fields administrators can associate Enterprise Project Types, Resources and Custom Fields to specific departments, eliminating unnecessary clutter and allowing departments to focus on their data. Centralized Administration One stop administration console for managing both project and portfolio management capabilities. Administer Reporting Cubes Enhanced administration interface for displaying the status and managing available cubes. Quickly take action and intuitively add, edit, delete, copy and refresh cubes. 14. Extend Interoperability Integration with related Microsoft technologies provides a familiar and connected work management platform. Empower teams to work in their preferred productivity tools and provide status updates to project stakeholders with minimal effort and administrative overhead. Microsoft Exchange Server Conveniently receive and update your project tasks in Outlook or Outlook Web App.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Seamlessly connect the worlds of application development and project and portfolio management. SharePoint Server Sync Effortlessly improve productivity with bidirectional status updates between Project Professional 2010 and SharePoint.

B. Top 10 Benefits(HASNIAH) 1. Unified project and portfolio management. 2. Drive accountability and control with governance workflow. 3. Standardize and streamline project initiation. 4. Select the right portfolios that align with strategy. a. Effectively prioritize and communicate business strategy. b. Run what-if analyses under varying constraints. c. Proactively reschedule projects to maximize resource utilization. 5. Easily build Web-based project schedules. 6. Intuitively submit time and task updates. 7. Gain visibility and control through reports and dashboards. 8. Simplified administration and flexibility. 9. Gain additional value from the Microsoft platform. 10. Extensible and programmable platform. SOURCES: http://www.microsoft.com/project/en-us/project-professional-2010.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/project/en-us/project-standard-2010.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/project/en-us/project-server-2010.aspx

NOTE: sa pag.hemu ninyo ug ppt .. pls refer to the source for reference.