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Creating a material resource

Creating a material resource - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Creating a material resource

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Material resources represent tangible items consumed by a project, like packing boxes or cases of cider for the new office open house. Material resources don't have a time component like work resources so you fill-in a few less fields. To create a material resource, go to the Resource Sheet. On the View tab, just click Resource Sheet. Then go to the first blank Resource Name cell and type-in the name of the resource, in this case Cider. Then when I click the next cell, the Type cell, Project automatically fills in Work, but we want a material resource, so click the down arrow and then choose Material. You see a few fields go away. Well, you can still fill-in the Initials field, Project puts in the first letter, but that's not that helpful. So we'll type-in the full name because Cider is fairly short. You will notice that Maximum units, Overtime Rate, Base Calendar don't have any values and that's because the Material Resource doesn't have a time component. But Project does fill-in the…

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