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Friday, July 29, 2011

MS Project 2010 - Project Plan Sync to SharePoint Site

MS Project 2010 - Project Plan Sync to SharePoint Site
In MS Project 2010, PM can publish a project plan to SharePoint site. This feature allows the collaboration between PM and his/her team members. Team members can see their tasks in SharePoint site and it also possible that team members can edit the schedule data (% complete, start date or due Date etc.)
NOTE: Sync to SharePoint is a Project 2010 feature, but not a Project Server feature. Once your Project Professional 2010 client connected to MS Project Server 2010, sync to SharePoint feature will be disabled. If you create a project plan on your local machine without connecting to server, you can save the plan to pre-existing SharePoint site. Also you can sync the edits between project plan and SharePoint site. This feature is useful in the scenario where Project Server is not available and PM want to collaborate the project plan with team members or with other PM. The other PM/team leader can also perform the schedule edits in SharePoint site, so original PM can synchronize the updates to project plan. (OR) This feature is useful in the scenario where you have Project Server 2010, but you would like to publish the project plan to the SharePoint site rather than Project Server. Refer: http://www.epmcentral.com/msp2010/projsyncsite.php

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User Controlled Scheduling using MSP 2010

Top Tips for Project

Moving around in projects
Do you want to quickly edit text in the Gantt chart or any sheet view? Press F2 to activate the entry bar to edit text in the selected cell.
Can't see the Gantt bars for your selected tasks? Click the Go To Selected Task button.
If you want to move the timescale portion of the view in small increments, press CTRL+LEFT or CTRL+RIGHT.
If you want to see a form view along with another view for quick entry of task or resource details, hold down SHIFT while clicking the view on the View Bar.
Viewing project information
If you have applied a filter to your view to show only specific tasks, you can quickly see all your tasks again by pressing F3.
Do you want a quick way to select all the rows and columns in the Gantt chart or any sheet view? Press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR.
Don't know how a column or field is used? Point at the header of the column, and click the Help link.
To quickly view details about tasks or resources, double-click the item you want to change.
To quickly create a Gantt Chart that looks the way you want, click Gantt Chart Wizard on the Standard toolbar.
To show or hide a toolbar, right-click one of the currently displayed toolbars, and then click the toolbar you want to show or hide.
Refer following URL for more details: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/top-tips-for-project-HA001096334.aspx

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More on Print options...

You can make changes to the appearance of a printed view (view: The combination of one or more views [Gantt Chart, Resource Sheet, and so on] and if applicable, a table and a filter. Use views to work with information in a variety of formats. There are three types of views: Charts or graphs, Sheets, and Forms.), such as the Gantt Chart view (Gantt Chart view: A predefined view that displays project tasks on the left side of the view, and graphical bars corresponding to the task's durations on the right side of the view.) or Calendar view (calendar view: A Project view that displays a project's tasks in a calendar format.), or report (report: A format in which you can print schedule information that is appropriate for the intended recipients. You can use the predefined reports provided by Project or create custom reports.), by specifying page setup options such as page orientation, scale, paper size, note printing, or duplex printing


Refer more at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/change-print-options-HA010220223.aspx#BM5