Microsoft Office Project for Mere Mortals®: Solving the Mysteries of Microsoft Office Project

Chapter 2. Revealing the Secrets of Microsoft Project

	To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
	--Henry Ward Beecher

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• Recognizing the Underlying Rules of Project

• Understanding the Project Data Structure

• Using Primary Project Data Fields

• Project Behavior and Definitions

• Navigating Project and Some Quick Tips

• The Major Project Views

• What Are Project Tables?

• Practice: Navigating and Using Project Views

• Summary

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This chapter reveals most of the secrets of Project. If you have tried using the tool and do not know its secrets, you might think it has a mind of its own. Perhaps you have been frustrated when it changes the duration when you added a resource on a task. You might ...