Create A New Project (11:37 min)

Project: Create a New Project

Completion Time:  5 minutes

 

Prerequisites: Completion of the Project Manager Lesson.

 

Objective:  In this exercise, you create a new project and add project description information.  

 

Instructions

 

1:  If the Project Manager is not displayed, on the Project tab, Project Tools panel, click Manager.

 

2:  In the Project Manager, click New Project.


 

 

3:  In the Create New Project dialog box, for Name, type NEWPROJ

 

4:  For Location:

> Click Browse.
> In the Browse for Folder dialog box, browse to where you installed the exercise files.
> Select the Project Basics folder.
> Click OK.


 

 

5:  Select the Create Folder with Project Name check box to create a new folder with the same name as the project.

 

6:  For Copy Settings from Project File:

> Click Browse.
> In the Open dialog box, browse to where you installed the exercises files.
> In the Project Basics folder, select Project_Basics_NFPA.wdp.
> Click Open.

 

 

7:  In the Create New Project dialog box, click Descriptions.

 

8:  In the Project Description dialog box:

> For Title 1, type your name. Select the in reports check box.
> For Title 2, type your company name. Select the in reports check box.
> For Title 3, type your city. Select the in reports check box.
> For Job Number, type 12345-67 then select the in reports check box.



 

9:  Click OK to save your changes.

 

10:  In the Create New Project dialog box, click OK.

 

11:  In the Project Manager, select NEWPROJ.

 

12:  Click Details. Under Details, notice that the project information you entered for the first four lines is displayed.
 


This completes the project.