Microsoft® Office Project 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 1. Working with Views

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✓	Understanding views
✓	Changing the default view
✓	Adding views to the View bar and the View menu
✓	Sorting, filtering, and grouping tasks in views
✓	Displaying a combination view
✓	Creating a view
✓	Creating a combination view
✓	Printing views

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View is the term Project uses to describe a way for you to look at project information; a view offers you a perspective of your project. As the project manager, you’re actually going to want to look at your project from many different perspectives, and Project contains a wealth of views to accommodate you. If you can’t find what you want using one of the built-in views, you can always create your own view. Project also lets you sort, filter, and group information in views, which helps you focus on different issues.

Network Diagram view and Calendar view behave a little differently than all the other Project views; you can customize these two views using techniques described in Book IX, Chapter 2.

What’s a View?

When it comes to looking at the information in your project, you’re going to want to look at it in a variety of ways so you can focus on particular issues. For example, you’ll want to view the tasks in your project without concern for the resources assigned to the tasks. Then you’re going to want to focus on the resource assignments for the project. Also, you’ll find that ...