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Managing Projects with Microsoft(r) Project 98: For Windows

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As a corporate instructor, I teach Ms Project 98 to business professionals, who have a wide background in project management experience and computer skills. Out of all the other books on the market about MS Project 98, when asked about references I always suggest this book as my number one recommendation. Why? It explains project management, when applies it to the tool, MS Project. It is well written, concise, and thoroughly covers the topics. If you are a project manager or administrative support needing to learn MS Project 98 quickly and effectively, this book is for you. Enjoy!

One of the challenges of using Project 98 is figuring out all the bells and whistles...and there are a TON of them. If you're a project manager and have a lot of detailed reporting to do, multilevel project information to status and many, many resources to take care of, you'll be using all of those features. However, most users of Project 98 don't need to know how to do *EVERYTHING* but would like to do more than show just a Gantt chart. This book will show you, in a clear, concise manner, how to do what you need to do, and how to use the most helpful features of Project 98. I attended a 3 day seminar on Project 98, and the course outline pretty much followed the chapters in this book! If you don't want to take the time or spend the money to attend a seminar, then buy and read this book: it'll get you up and running pretty quickly.

I think this book is ok if you are already familar with the task bar and menu. I use other microsoft office applications and understood some of the feautres that are similar. However the author assumes you know ALL the commands in the task bar and menu. I didn't know where some of the buttons and commands are that are unique to this applications. This book didn't cover the menu of project 98 clearly enough for those who have never used the application.