Dig into Project 2003—and discover how you can really put your project management skills to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds in concise, fast-answer format. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Find the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks, and challenge yourself to new levels of Project mastery!

• Master powerful tools for orchestrating project scope, resources, and time
• Learn expert ways to monitor progress and costs, make corrections, and stay on course
• Enable Web-based project collaboration, tracking, and reporting for project stakeholders
• Skillfully coordinate multiple projects and resource pools
• Simplify work by exchanging information between other projects and Microsoft Office programs
• Employ advanced solutions to improve enterprise-wide project and resource management
• Customize Project to work your way with macros and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

CD features:

• Complete eBook—easy to browse and print
• Insider Extras—including special content for team members and executives, plus Help files
• Catalog of Project resources with links to third-party tools and demos
• Microsoft resources and demos, including Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 eBook
• FREE—60-day trial of Microsoft Office Project 2003 Standard Edition software
• FREE—Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, eBook—10,000+ entries

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The Inside Out books are wonderful, complete references on Project Professional, but they don't go into anywhere near the same level of detail on Project Server or Project Web Access. Granted, if they did, both the 2002 and 2003 versions would have been 10,000 pages long, rather than the current 1,000 or so.

This book will help you answer pretty much any quesiton you've got about Project Pro, and that tends to be where most of the questions are. As a reference, this is a great tool. The index is thorough, the detailed TOC is very easy to use, and there is a TON on information in here.

To be fair, I have to say that the 2003 version does cover more of Project Server and PWA than 2002 did. However, it's still just barely scratching the surface. If Ms. Stover would cover only the security model, that would be a huge step forward.

Bottom line: If you're going to be using Project 2003, either stand alone or in a full-blown Enterprise Project Management scenario, Project 2003 Inside Out is a great tool. I recommend it enthusiasticly.

28 of 31 found the following review helpful:

The Best Book For Rookies and ProsMar 08, 2004
By S. C. Gales "pdrgal"
I needed to learn the ins and out of Microsoft Project in a weekend. The book was the best reference for me to do so. It took me step by step to learnings all the quirks and strategies when working with project.

I still use it as a reference in my work today and may have to buy another because I am wearing it down so much. It is a very easy book to reference and I would recommend it to any Project user.

28 of 32 found the following review helpful:

Better books out there on MS ProjectSep 22, 2004
By Kevelaer
Not the best book out there for MS Project. It didn't really seem like the author was a power user. Some of the directions are very superficial and not very useful. Not a good book at all for Project Server administration. Get more bang for your buck with MS Project Special Edition.

25 of 29 found the following review helpful:

Read the Online Help for Project Pro and PWAMar 09, 2004

I was somewhat disappointed. The things I had questions about weren't covered any more deeply in this book than in the Microsoft Help. Download and read the Microsoft Online books that cover administering and installing Project Server for a free alternative.

13 of 15 found the following review helpful:

Basic helpSep 19, 2005
By L. Luna
I expected better and more advanced information on MS Project. Unfortunately this manual covers only the basics, although it does a very good job doing it.

Remember when you use to purchase software and it included a Manual?

Kind of dissapointed of the sustance (or lack of) for advance users.

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