WOON CHIN PEOW

            Firstly, I would like to express my grateful to Dr Rozana for giving me an opportunity to learn how to construct a working schedule by using the Microsoft Project software. I am very appreciate about this three days Microsoft Project course start from 10 April 2012 until 12 April 2012 at Tanjung Piai.

            The following are the steps about how to construct a working schedule by using Microsoft Project.

Part 1 To input the flow data

1. The date of flow can be change by click the grant chart. The format of the day can be changed at Timescale.
2. The flow of work can be selected whether from Early Start(ES) to Early Finish(EF) or from Late Start(LS) to Late Finish(LF) by click at the Project Information.
3. The task can be linked together by highlight the selected task and then click Indent.
4. To add a predecessor from start to start, click at the Predecessor and then click Task Information. After that, type the ID No. and select start to start.
5. Click Network Diagram, the task can be linked together the by drag the selected task to another task.

Part 2 To input the resource

1. Click the Resource Sheet to input resource and cost of rate for each task. (The maximum quantity need to be input for work. There are no need to input the quantity for material)
2. Click at the Tool and select Option. Click at the Schedule, select Decimal, change the maximum  unit to decimal.
3. To change the unit of cost, click at the Tool and select Option, click at the View and change the symbol(selected from Currency Option) to RM
4. After that click at the Task Information and select the Resources to input resource for each task (Input the quantity for the work and material).
5. To view the cost of overall project, click at the Tools and then select Tracking, last select save baseline or set baseline to calculate cost of the overall project.
6. Click clear baseline before the modification of resource.
7. Finally, click at the View and select the Report, then select Cost. From the Cost, select cash flow to view cost of the overall project.