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Microsoft Project Fundamentals
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Microsoft Project Fundamentals

by Teresa S. Stover
April 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
288 pages
6h 51m
English
Wiley
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Lesson 12Report Project Information

As the project manager, one of your major responsibilities throughout the monitoring and controlling processes is to review a project's ongoing status and regularly communicate it with everyone involved. Using the reporting tools in Microsoft Project, you can review information about the schedule, budget, and resource assignments, and also share meaningful reports with your team, sponsors, and other stakeholders.

In this lesson, you explore the built-in reports and dashboards available in Project. You learn how you can customize these tools or create your own to report on the information you need. You also see how to print reports or save them as PDFs to easily share with others.

Work with Reports

Project comes with about 16 built-in reports, not counting dashboards or visual reports. All available on the Report tab, these reports are designed to pull specific types of information from your project plan and display them as a summary, comparison, table, chart, or a combination of these for specific categories.

Depending on its focus, a report can use the following types of information from your project:

  • Work (baseline, actual, remaining, variance, cumulative)
  • Cost (baseline, actual, remaining, variance, cumulative)
  • Start and finish dates ...
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