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In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007
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In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007

by Elaine J. Marmel
January 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
352 pages
8h 30m
English
Microsoft Press
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Assigning Resources to Tasks

By assigning a standard rate to a resource, you’ve taken the first basic step to assigning costs to your project. Although there are several other ways to assign costs, let’s take a look at the effects of the simplest case, where you assign a resource with a standard rate to a task. In Project, the cost of your project is a mathematical calculation. Project applies the cost of each resource assigned to a task and calculates a cost for each task. The cost of your project is the sum of all of the tasks’ costs.

The method you use to assign resources to tasks doesn’t depend on whether you are working on a stand-alone project or an Enterprise project stored in the Project Server database. You can assign resources to tasks ...

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