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Let's get started with Microsoft Project 2013 first by getting acquainted with its new and improved features. First off, MS Project 2013 provides links not only to creating a new blank project, but also links to project templates and other facilities that would allow you to import information from MS Excel or Sharepoint.

Another area of improvement in MS Project 2013 is in the range of reports. Now you can have access to new types of reports, depending on your needs. If you need to communicate with the members of your team, you can also use Lync 2010 or later versions, which allows instant messaging, video chatting, or even a phone call. Find out how to share meetings or take projects into the far future and much, much more in this course!

If you are wondering "What is MS Project?" or are new to Project Management and looking for the right project software or just to learn what a gantt is and how to use one, then this Project 2013 tutorial is for you.

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Welcome back to our course on Project 2013. In this section, I’m going to do a quick run through of what’s new in Project 2013. Even if you haven’t used Project before, I think you’re going to find this section useful because it will introduce you to some of the key points that we’ll be covering in the course.

The best source of information for what’s new in Project 2013 from a fairly non-technical point of view is within the Office section on microsoft.com and there’s a page there called What’s New in Project 2013 and I want to go through the main points on that page in this section.

One of the sections on that page is headed Get Started Quickly and this really describes the main features of the start screen in Project 2013, the screen we saw earlier. And from this screen you get links not only to creating a new blank project but you can get links to Project templates that we’re going to look at later on and then various other links to facilities to import information from Microsoft Excel or from SharePoint. We’ll be looking at the start screen in more detail later on.

One of the main areas of extension and improvement in Project 2013 is in the range of reports that are available. There are some new and greatly improved graphical reports and there are also new types of reports such as burn down reports. You can also use Link 2010 or later to communicate with members of your team by instant message, video chat, email, or even a phone call. If you were dealing with a complex project and you’re having trouble sorting out some issues with a specific task or around the area of a specific task, you can look at the task path for the selected task which shows all of the predecessor tasks and all of the successor tasks conveniently colored to help to identify them.

And then there are some other new or improved features here. The first of these, Take projects into the far future, means that we can now schedule projects with project dates up to the middle of the 22nd century which is probably far enough ahead for most of us. And then other new features include the sharing of meetings if you export your project reports, timelines, or other project data into other Office programs you can share those online on any supported device. You can save and share project files in the Cloud as with the other components of Office 2013. And if you use Project online, you have access to a full version of Project from almost anywhere and you can run it even on PCs that don’t have Project 2013 installed.

We’ll be looking at most of these new features during the course. But in the mean time, I suggest that you look at this page, What’s New in Project 2013 and maybe follow some of the links on that page to describe some of the features in more detail.
That’s it for this section. I’ll see you in the next one.