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

Chapter 1. Working Your Own Way

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✓	Controlling the Project Guide’s behavior
✓	Controlling the levels of undoing actions
✓	Controlling the way you switch between projects
✓	Customizing the way you open and save projects
✓	Customizing toolbars and menus
✓	Sharing elements across projects

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You probably feel more comfortable in your own home than any other place. After all, you decorate your home to reflect your personality and make it a comfortable place for you to be. You choose the colors, the furnishings, the carpet, the tile . . . you get our drift.

You can make Project comfortable by customizing it to reflect the way you work. For example, you can choose to display the Project Guide each time you open Project, and you can decide whether you want the Standard and Formatting toolbars to take up one line or two on-screen. You can even build your own toolbars. So, this chapter explores the things you can do to make the Project working environment suit your needs.

Lots of settings can change Project’s behavior; in this chapter, we cover the ones we think can help you most and impact your daily work.

Controlling the Project Guide’s Behavior

The Project Guide is a tool that can guide you through the process of setting up a project. When visible, the Project Guide appears in a task pane on the left side of the screen (see Figure 1-1). In the Project Guide, you see links that you can click to walk you through actions necessary to set up a project.

Figure 1-1. The ...