Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 is a robust project management tool that provides the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively.

 Note   Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 includes all the capabilities in Office Project Standard 2007. In addition, Office Project Professional 2007 provides enterprise project management capabilities when connected to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.

• Get productive quickly

• Understand and control project schedules and finances

• Effectively communicate and present project information

Get productive quickly

With Project, you can easily control finances with the budgettracking feature, so you can assign budgets to projects and programs. The Cost resource type improves cost estimation by enabling you to map financial fields tracked in project accounting systems.

• Track project budgets at a high level  Use budget tracking to define a budget at a high level (program or project) so the project manager can allocate funds and track costs and work against the budget.
• Identify cost resources across multiple tasks  Now multiple planned and actual costs can be assigned to a task with a Cost resource type, which also supports integration of Project with accounting systems.

  

• Leverage new project templates  You can leverage a number of new templates when creating projects for activities such as: preparing annual reports, forecasting hiring needs, implementing finance and accounting systems, and planning marketing campaigns.

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Understand and control project schedules and finances

Set realistic expectations with project teams, management, and customers using Project to build schedules, allocate resources, and manage budgets. Understand the schedule by using features like task drivers to identify why a task is starting on a particular date, multiple level undo to reverse changes several steps after they're made, and change highlighting to show you what data has changed as a result of updates you made to the project plan.

• Identify factors affecting task schedules  Tasks drivers show which factors are affecting the start date of a task. Examples of possible drivers are predecessors, constraints, and calendar exceptions. Simply click these drivers to link to relevant information.

  

• Show the impact of your changes  Turn on change highlighting to help identify the impact of each change you make in your project plan.

  

• Undo and redo multiple changes  Reverse the most recent series of changes by undoing changes to views, data, and options with Multiple Level Undo. With this functionality, you can also undo actions or sets of actions from macros or third-party applications.

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Effectively communicate and present project information

Easily present information in various formats according to the needs of stakeholders. You can format and print schedules or other reports. Smoothly export project-related data into Microsoft Office Word for formal documents, Microsoft Office Excel for custom charts or spreadsheets, Microsoft Office PowerPoint for crisp presentations, or Microsoft Office Visio Professional for diagrams.

• Produce charts, graphs, and diagrams of your project data  Use Excel and Visio to produce charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Project data by means of the Visual Reports feature. You can easily use predefined templates, or define custom report templates and share them with other Project users.
• Highlight specific data with cell shading  Background cell highlighting enables you to shade cells, similar to how you can shade cells in Excel, in order to convey additional meaning.

  

• Create more visually effective reports with calendar enhancements and 3-D Gantt bars  With enhancements to the Calendar view and addition of 3-D Gantt bars, you can create even more visually effective reports.

  

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