Project 2007 is a
project management product
designed to address the work
and people management needs
of today's organizations.
Project Standard 2007 gives
you ways to plan, manage,
and communicate project
information, resulting in
increased productivity and
effectiveness.
Note Microsoft Office
Project Professional 2007
includes all the
capabilities in Office
Project Standard 2007. In
addition, Office Project
Professional 2007 provides
enterprise project
management capabilities when
connected to Microsoft
Office Project Server 2007.
Understand and control
project schedules and
finances
Effectively track and
analyze projects with a
better understanding of the
schedule and impact of
changes. Benefit from better
financial control and richer
analytics.
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New! Trace the source of
issues. Quickly
determine factors that
are affecting task dates
and easily trace the
source of issues to
promote accountability.
Task Drivers help you
determine the factor
(such as task
dependency, calendar
constraints, schedule
date, or vacation time)
driving the start date
of the task, so you can
follow a chain of
factors back to find the
root cause of a
particular delay.
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New! See the impacts of
a change. Office
Project 2007 will
automatically highlight
all items that shift as
a result of the most
recent change you make.
Now, with Change
Highlights you gain a
better understanding of
the impacts of your
choices.
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New! Experiment with
what-if scenarios.
Undo and redo changes to
views, data, and options
with Multiple Level
Undo. You can undo
actions or sets of
actions from macros too,
so you can test several
what-if scenarios in
order to fully
understand the
implications of each
choice while making
scope changes.
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New! Easily control
finances. With the
budget field, you can
assign budgets to
projects and programs.
The new “Cost” resource
type improves cost
estimation and tracking.
Other cost enhancements
include more predefined
fields, such as cost
code, that map to
financial fields tracked
in project accounting
systems.
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Enhanced! Flexible
project tracking and
analysis. Compute
and track core metrics
unique to your project
by defining custom
fields based on your
formulas. Graphical
indicators can alert you
when specific conditions
are met.
Effectively communicate
and present project
information
Improve the organization
of your projects and people
with the scheduling power
and capabilities of Office
Project Standard 2007.
Easily report and
communicate information in
various formats according to
the needs of stakeholders.
New!
Leverage charts and
diagrams. The Visual
Reports feature uses
Microsoft Office Excel and
Microsoft Office Visio
Professional to produce
PivotTable views, charts,
graphs, and diagrams based
on Project data. A user can
easily define custom report
templates and share these
with other Project users.
New! Add
visual highlights. You
can change the background
color of a cell or row with
Background Cell
Highlighting. Shade cells,
similar to how you can in
Excel, in order to convey
additional meaning.
- Enhanced! Use improved views. With new enhancements to the Calendar interface and the addition of 3-D Gantt bars, you can create even more visually effective reports.
- Enhanced! Share information. Share and manage documents related to your projects using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services workspaces (requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later), which are integrated into the Tasks pane of the Project Guide.
Get productive quickly
Office Project 2007 helps
you better organize work and
people to help ensure
projects are delivered on
time and within budget.
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Enhanced! Follow the
Project Guide. Quickly
master the project
management process with
the Project Guide, a
step-by-step,
interactive aid that
helps you set up
projects, manage tasks
and resources, track
status, and report
project information.
To use Microsoft Office
Project 2007, you will need:
Microsoft Windows XP Service
Pack (SP) 2 or later, VISTA
or Microsoft Windows Server
2003 (or higher) required.
500 megahertz (MHz)
processor or higher; 256
megabyte (MB) RAM or higher;
DVD drive; 1 gigahertz (GHz)
and 512 MB of RAM or higher
is required to run Microsoft
Office Outlook 2007 with
Business Contact Manager. 2
gigabyte (GB) necessary for
install; a portion of this
disk space will be freed
after installation if the
original download package is
removed from the hard drive.
Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or
higher recommended Broadband
connection, 128 kilobits per
second (Kbps) or greater,
for download and activation
of products. Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6.0 with
service packs, Microsoft
Exchange Server 2000 or
later required for Outlook
2007 users. To install
Outlook 2007 with Business
Contact Manager, you will
need to first install
Outlook 2007
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