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Reschedule uncompleted work |
Maintain constraints when uncompleted work is rescheduled, and select any reschedule
date. |
Assign a deadline to
a task |
Keep track of when a task finishes without constraining the project plan. |
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Formulas & graphical indicators |
Assign formulas, pick lists, and apply graphical indicators to custom fields to
keep track of projects. |
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Gantt charts, calendars, & tasks |
Present Project data in versatile views. |
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Material resources |
Specify consumable resources such as lumber or concrete and assign them to tasks.
Allocate these resources in units that make sense, such as tons. |
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Budget Tracking |
Define a budget at a high level (program or project) so the project manager can
allocate funds and track costs, work, and materials against the budget. |
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Task Driver pane |
Shows prerequisites and resource constraints that drive the start date of the selected
task. The user can click these drivers to link to the relevant information. |
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Change Highlighting |
When changes are made to a project, all affected task and resource fields are highlighted.
Easily see how your change affects the dates of successor tasks, summary costs,
and more. |
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Grouping |
Consolidate and report project information in a variety of ways by using predefined
groups or creating custom groups. Group on assignment fields in addition to tasks
and resources, and roll up time-phased data totals to group summary rows in Usage
views. |
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Multiple Level Undo |
Reverse the most recent series of changes; that is, undo and redo changes to views,
data and options. This functionality also enables you to undo actions or sets of
actions from macros or third-party applications. |
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Cost Resources |
Helps enable users to define multiple named time-phased fixed costs on a task. These
costs can be grouped and reported as part of a cost type. Supports integration of
Office Project 2007 with accounting systems. |
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Reports for Visio |
Build work breakdown structure (WBS) or resource diagrams in Office Visio Professional.
With data-driven diagrams, users can show progress bars, flag important tasks, color-code
on cost, or create custom diagrams to match their project needs. |
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step-by-step planning wizard |
Set up and manage projects effectively with the Project Guide. |
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Compare Project files |
Compare two versions of the same project and report results. |
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Import Outlook Tasks |
Easily import task data from the Microsoft Outlook To-Do Bar to create a Project
plan. |
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Cross-project critical path |
Calculate the critical path across all inserted projects to see a single critical
path for the overall master project. |
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Smart Tags |
Get automatic, contextual suggestions alerting you to scheduling options. |
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Printing Wizard |
Easily format and print concise custom Project reports. |
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Built-in online help |
Use Microsoft Office Online to get training, templates, and more. |
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Calendar wizard |
Simplify the setup process for project calendars and changing working time. |
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Resource availability graphs |
Evaluate resource workload and availability using the Graphs button in the Assign
Resources dialog box to identify the best resource available for the task. |
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Resource information impor |
Import resource information from the Active Directory directory service or your
Microsoft Exchange Server address book. |
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Manage non-working time |
Named vacations and the option of setting up alternative work weeks enable users
to control and understand when resources can work.
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Visual Reports for Excel |
Use Excel to produce charts and graphs based on Office Project 2007 data. Analyze
different dimensions of your project with PivotTable views and charts. |
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Presentation Wizard |
Smoothly transfer Project data to Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Microsoft Office
Word, or Microsoft Office Visio. |
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Network Diagram view |
Group tasks and display graphical indicators in the Network Diagram view. |
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Excel Import Wizard |
Easily import and use data from Microsoft Office Excel to start a Project plan. |
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Baseline rollup |
Control how baseline data is rolled up to summary tasks to help ensure up-to-date
tracking of projects. |
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Report templates |
Office Project 2007 offers report templates for Office Visio and Office Excel to
help a user analyze resource availability, understand project progress and costs,
and perform other tasks. Users can customize these reports or create their own templates
in Office Visio and Office Excel to share with other Office Project users. |
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Desktop OLAP cube |
Create customer reports or archive Project values with data exported from Office
Project 2007 into a Microsoft Office
Access database and Online Analytical Processing
(OLAP) cubes. Six cubes are generated: task time-phased, task non-time-phased, resource
time-phased, resource non-time-phased, assignment time-phased, and assignment non-time-phased. |