Microsoft® Project 2000 Step by Step (EU-Step by Step) [Paperback]

Carl Chatfield (Author), Tim Johnson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735609209 | ISBN-13: 978-0735609204 | Publication Date: June 3, 2000

Work through every lesson to complete the full course or do individual lessons to learn just the skills you need. Either way, you get insightful tips from a PMI-certified professional project planner, who shows you how to use Project 2000 to manage projects effectively. You also get practice files on CD-ROM.

Intuitive features make learning easy:

• Step numbers are your unmistakable guides through the lessons.
• Buttons and desktop icons show you where to point and click on the screen.
• Screen shots illustrate the lessons you’re working on.
• Tips provide alternate steps or additional information.
• Multimedia demos highlight key functions.

Using this book and Microsoft Project 2000, you’ll learn to:

• Forecast what you can accomplish with resources such as people, equipment, time, and money
• Analyze information by using graphs and tables and publish your data in print or on line
• Track how your projects progress and identify what to do if they don't proceed according to plan
• Meet Microsoft Project 2000 Microsoft Office Specialist core-level and expert-level objectives

This book is approved courseware for the Microsoft Office Specialist Program. Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/officespecialist/default.mspx

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to [e-mail].

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About the Author

Carl is a principal content project manager at Microsoft. In this role Carl oversees development of assistance material, UI text and web content for a variety of V.1 products and services. Carl also teaches software user assistance in the Human Centered Design and Engineering department at the University of Washington. Carl is a graduate of the Master's program in Technical Communication at the University of Washington and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute. Carl blogs regularly about Project, project management and knowledge worker teams at www.projhugger.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (June 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735609209
• ISBN-13: 978-0735609204
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Computers & Technology > Hardware > PCs
  • #72 in Books > Computers & Technology > Project Management > PMP Exam

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

73 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making Learning easier and fun - what a concept., June 11, 2000

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft® Project 2000 Step by Step (EU-Step by Step) (Paperback)

If you want to find out the way to use any software you rely on the software manufacturer for that information. You find that the on-line help is far more technical than you are and that most of the time the information never gives you what you need. Microsoft has made a living out of producing books that let you learn the application at your own pace.

Like so many other books in the award winning and first rate Step-by-Step series, Project 2000 has been taken down to the end-user level and you are the recipients of one of the best hands-on and self paced course books on the market today.

16 lessons encompass the 400 plus page learning material and best of all you work at your pace until you understand it. Quick reference tips are included and each lesson has a wrap up to review the material covered in the lesson.

The book includes real world examples so what you learn can be applied as you learn. Also there is a cd-rom with all necessary practice files and if you don't own Project 2000 the cd includes an evaluation version. Microsoft has thought of everything...Another winner for Microsoft and Microsoft Press.

45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For beginners only, January 13, 2001

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Carl N Belack, PMP (Acton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft® Project 2000 Step by Step (EU-Step by Step) (Paperback)

As someone who frequently uses and teaches classes on Microsoft Project, I found this book only marginally useful. For beginners, this is probably a very good book, particularly when used in conjunction with the supplied CD. However, for one who has a working knowledge of the product, it offers little detail on this very complex application. Unfortunately, in MS Project the devil is very much in the detail.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well done, August 27, 2000

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This review is from: Microsoft® Project 2000 Step by Step (EU-Step by Step) (Paperback)

I teach project management for a living, and this is clearly one of the best resources on the subject. It does an outstanding job of explaining many of the counter-intuitive features of MS Project... and it includes many improvements over the MSP 98 version of the book.