Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Inside Out

Working with the Project Global Template

The project global template—global.mpt—is loaded every time Microsoft Project starts. Essentially, the project global template is a collection of custom elements and default settings throughout a project file. These elements include the following:

• Views

• Custom fields and outline codes

• Tables

• Toolbars

• Groups

• Forms

• Filters

• Macros and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) modules

• Reports

• Import/export maps

• Base calendars

As you alter settings in your project by customizing views and calendars, modifying tables, and creating sets of custom fields, for example, those changes initially apply to just the current project. If you want your custom settings available to any project opened on your local computer, you can ...