Baselines

Clear a Baseline Plan

Microsoft Project now includes the option to clear a baseline or interim plan on a project.

1. To clear baseline information for specific tasks only, select those tasks. To clear baseline information for the entire project, start with step 2.
2. Point to Tracking on the Tools menu, and then click Clear Baseline.
3. Click Clear baseline plan or Clear interim plan. To clear an interim plan, you need to select it in the list box.
4. Click Entire project or Selected tasks.

Display

Change the Row Height of Individual Rows

In Microsoft Project 2000, drag the row line between tasks to the height you want.

Roll Up Tasks for the Entire Project

In Microsoft Project 2000, you can easily display multiple Gantt bars on a single task line for the whole project.

1. On the Format menu, click Layout.
2. Click Always roll up Gantt bars.

Duration Units

Use Month as a Duration Unit

Microsoft Project now supports months as a unit of duration. Typing 3mos in the duration field is recognized as three months. By default, a month has 20 days, but you can also specify how many days constitute a month.

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Calendar tab.
2. Specify the number of days in the Days per month box.

Printing

Set the First Page Number of Printed Pages

You can now change the number of the first printed page. For example, if your current project has ten pages, and you only want to print pages 9 and 10, you can now print them as pages 1 and 2.

1. On the File menu, click Page Setup.
2. On the Page tab, type the number you want in the First page number box.

Saving Projects

Auto Save Projects

Microsoft Project now includes the option to automatically save a project file every few minutes.

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Save tab.
2. Under Auto Save, click Save every, and then specify the minutes in the minutes box.
3. Click Save Active Project only or Save all open Project files.
4. If you want saving to occur without prompting, click Prompt Before Saving to deselect it.

Templates

Create a Template

You can now easily remove data such as baseline values from projects you save as templates.

1. On the File menu, click Save As.
2. In the Save as type box, select Template, and then click Save.
3. Select the options you don't want to include in the template.

Use a Template

You can now base a new project on a template simply by selecting the template when you create a new file.

1. On the File menu, click New, and then click the Project Templates tab.
2. Click the template you want.
   If you created your own template, you can click it on the General tab.

User Interface Functionality

Get Additional ToolTips

You can now get ToolTip information on additional Microsoft Project user interface areas.

• Pointing anywhere on the timescale displays date information in a ToolTip.
• Pointing to truncated information in a cell displays that cell's complete content in a ToolTip.

Use fill handles

You can now use fill handles to copy task or resource information up or down in the sheet portion of any view, such as the left-hand portion of the Gantt Chart.

1. Select the cell that contains the information you want to copy.
2. Click and drag the square in the lower right hand corner to highlight cells up or down.
3. Release the mouse button to fill highlighted cells with the contents of the original cell.