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Setting basic options

Setting basic options - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Setting basic options

Project comes with dozens of options. So you can tell it how you want it to behave. Many of the default settings work for most people but there are few that you might want to change right away. To set options go to FILE tab and then click Options and the Project Options dialog box opens. We're going to start in the General category and that's the one that comes up. So the first thing to look at is Username and Initials. That's usually set up when you install Project, but if you don't have the right User name and Initials you can type them in there; that way they'll be with all of your project files. The other thing you can change is the Date format. You can actually change this one as you are working, depending on what you need. If you want to see more of the date, click the down arrow and you can choose something that actually has the time in it or even the day of the week. Or if you want to be really terse you can just show the month and the date or even just the day. So you come…

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