Microsoft® Office Project 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Exploring the Project Environment

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✓	Looking at menus and toolbars
✓	Navigating Project
✓	Exploring Project views
✓	Modifying views
✓	Displaying various tables of data
✓	Displaying task panes
✓	Working with Project Guide

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In 2007, Microsoft launched a dramatically new interface for selected products in the Microsoft Office family, of which Microsoft Project is a part. However, Microsoft Project wasn’t one of the Office family products to get this new interface-lift, so it sports a very similar look to the previous edition, based on menus and toolbars that are familiar to most folks.

In this chapter, you get a glimpse of Project 2007 menus and tools, as well as the various views that make up Project. These views offer you different perspectives on data that can help you manage your projects efficiently. In addition, Project Guide offers a wizardlike interface that can walk you through the development of a new project. Finally, task panes such as New Project allow you to work with handy sets of tools to complete certain activities.

This chapter helps to familiarize you with all that the Project environment has to offer.

Exploring Menus and Toolbars in Project

Menus and toolbars have been the way to get work done in software for the last several years. Here’s a quick overview of the menus and toolbars that Project 2007 offers.

Menu basics

If you’ve ever used a computer, you know what a menu is. Menus such as the one shown in Figure 4-1 contain ...