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Creating a work resource

Creating a work resource - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Creating a work resource

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In Project, a Work Resource is one you assigned based on time, like a person who works full time or half time or a moving truck that you rent for five days. When you create Work Resources, you provide basic information, name, initials workgroup and so on. You also specify how much resources are available and when. So Project can calculate the schedule. If you set up the Resource's Cost fields, the program can also calculate your costs. So to look at work resources, go to the Resource Sheet, on the View tab, click Resource Sheet and here we have several work resources. Your first choice is whether you want to create generic resources or resources for specific people. So for example you can create generic resources like the ones here with the job skill, the Relocation Project Manager, Office manager, Telecom admin. So let's say we are going to create a new resource for a Network admin. So you type the job skill in the Resource Name field and press Enter and you can see Project creates a…

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