Author: Ismet Kocaman
Ismet Kocaman, MCTS, PMP, is a Mechanical Engineer and has more than 15 years of project management experience in the manufacturing sector. He currently provides consultancy to small to mid-sized companies on project management, reorganizing, and streamlining the manufacturing operations. He also conducts training seminars for engineers on MS Project. Contact Ismet at ikocaman.pm@gmail.com.
Filter for Tasks Taking Place Outside of 8 to 5
If you want to identify which tasks don’t start at 8 a.m. and don’t finish at 5 p.m., here’s how: Enter the following formula to a custom flag field, for example, Flag1, and then fil...
Use Your Mouse to Change the Duration Value
In all versions of Project, in a task line, click a Duration cell to activate the spin button control and then click the arrows to increase or decrease the duration value in the cell. Each click chang...
Display Project Info and Task Count without Project
In the active project plan file, apply the proper command sequence to open the File Properties dialog box. In Project 2013, that’s File > Info > Project Information > Advanced Propertie...
Quick-check the Revision Number and Last Saved Info
Here’s how you can see the revision number and “Last saved by” information of a Project file without opening it: 1. Right click the desktop shortcut of the Project file (or the filen...
2 Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Project
1. Here’s a keyboard shortcut for any version of Project: Click F4 and T on the keyboard to quickly enter today’s date into any date field in a table: 2. In all versions of Project, use th...
Creating a Custom Report in Project 2013: This Week’s Tasks
This document is related to the standalone desktop editions of Project 2013. Project 2013 contains some new built-in task filters such as Tasks Due This Week, Tasks Starting Soon, and Milestones Due T...
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