Overview

Project managers everywhere rely o­n Microsoft Office Project Standard to plan and manage their projects. With Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003, efficiently organize and track tasks and resources to keep your projects o­n time and within budget. Extensive help resources and printing assistance make Project Standard 2003 easy to learn, so that you can be productive quickly. Project Standard 2003 is an integral part of the Microsoft Office System, so you can smoothly use products like Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 and Microsoft Office Visio® 2003 to present project status effectively. And, as a user of the leading desktop project management program, support is readily available through a broad community of solution providers and user groups.

Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003 is used by project managers who need a desktop tool to manage their projects independently but who do not require strong coordination with other project managers or the ability to manage resources from a central repository. Project Standard 2003 is designed to improve your ability to organize work and communicate effectively and succinctly through familiar, easy-to-use tools. Make an impact at work and increase your productivity through familiar tools that enable you to effectively plan and manage projects and convey project status and details. Using Project Standard 2003, they can: Organize project activities by building schedules and estimating costs. Communicate assignments to their project team by printing and distributing the project schedule. Focus the project team o­n meeting major milestones and deadlines. Understand how changes and delays in specific tasks affect the overall schedule.

Main Features

• Increase your impact at work and create better presentations by easily transferring information from Project Standard 2003 into other Office programs such as Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft Office Visio 2003 to print compelling and succinct copies of schedules and goals.
• Organize your work more effectively with new scheduling tools -- Track schedule and resource changes to your project plans quickly.
• New display options lets you show individuals the project information they need to review.
• Up-to-date assistance. An updated interface lets you navigate and learn Project Standard 2003 quickly, and you can access o­nline Help for relevant, up-to-date support.
• Guided planning and management. Get started quickly with tools that assist you with project management methodology, so you can set up schedules and manage resources more effectively.
• Convey your project plans and status effectively and succinctly.
• Communicate more clearly using new printing enhancements to print o­ne-page printouts of project schedules.
• Share project information with team members by saving Project (MPP) files to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site. Windows SharePoint Services is a component of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that enables users to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. 
• Enhance your productivity and effectiveness by learning and applying project management practices easily. Get started quickly with tools that assist you with project management methodology, so you can set up schedules and manage resources more effectively.
• Download a template from Templates o­n Microsoft Office o­nline, rather than starting a project from scratch. Use familiar tools to do work that is more sophisticated and has more of an impact without the need for extensive training.
• Save time by moving project information easily between Project 2003 and other Microsoft Office programs, such as Microsoft Office Excel 2003. Navigate and learn Project Standard 2003 quickly with an updated interface that is consistent with Office 2003 programs.
• Track and evaluate the impact of schedule and resource changes to your overall project plans.
• Focus o­n information that needs your attention with filters and groups.

System Requirements

• Hard Disk
  

  130 MB.

  
  
• Memory
  128 MB.
  
  
• Processor
  Intel Pentium 233 MHz or higher, Pentium III recommended.
  
  
• Platform
  WIN 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later; or WIN XP.