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Whether you're coordinating the development of a jet engine or helping to organize a conference, your job is to juggle variables. Microsoft Project 98 can help ensure you reach your goals on time and on budget--if you know how to use it, that is. Microsoft Project 98 for Dummies gives you the leg up you need to figure out this powerful project-management software. Author Martin Doucette begins with a discussion of project-management concepts before delving into Project's tools. In his coverage of Project, the author includes instructions on establishing a schedule, outlining tasks, and identifying dependencies among tasks and milestones. Along the way, Doucette shows how to take resources (equipment, mainly) and money into account. He then goes into considerable depth on the graphical representations available to Project users, including Gantt and PERT charts. There's also excellent coverage of filters, the data-sorting tools you can use to pick details out of your Project files. In case you'd rather look at the work of a pro before attempting to shoehorn your project's particulars, Microsoft Project 98 for Dummies includes a CD-ROM containing a number of demonstration files. You can experiment with these to see how Project behaves in different circumstances. --David Wall
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