Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Inside Out

Working with Project Templates

A project template is a standardized starting point for a new project. A template can contain task information, resource information, or both. It might be very broad in scope, showing just major phases and generic resource names, for example. Or, the template can be highly detailed, with multiple outline levels of tasks, their durations, task dependencies, and specific resource information.

Note

Because the terms project template and project global template are so similar, often you’ll hear people refer to the latter simply as the project global, the global, or the global MPT file.

Microsoft Project comes with a set of built-in templates for a variety of industries and applications. Microsoft Project templates are available ...