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Let's start putting together a project that most of us are undoubtedly familiar with. In this section, Toby discusses the task of building a house using a blank project, among other equally important basic features of MS Project 2013. Toby starts from a very simple house model that slowly morphs into one with added functional features. In this example, Toby covers the entire process--from entering a task, indicating the duration of each task, setting the project start date, up to saving the project. There are also other pieces of information that are automatically entered by Project as you are setting up the tasks in your project, and one of them is Task Mode, which could either be Auto Scheduled or Manually Scheduled. There's also an ID number given to every task entered. Learn more by watching this video!

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Welcome back to our course on Project 2013. We’re now going to get started on putting together a project and we’re going to use as our example the building of a house. Now, you may not be very familiar with house building but don’t let that worry you too much because even if you don’t live in a house you’ve probably seen houses and you must have some idea of how they are built. For instance, you’d understand that you need to build the floor before you build the walls and you’d need to build the walls before you put the roof on. We’re going to start with a very, very simple model of how to build a house and then we’re going to develop that throughout the course.

In this section and the next couple of short sections, I’m going to introduce you to the most important basic features of Microsoft Project and then throughout the rest of the course we’re going to add a lot of detail to all of those things. Now I must admit that in the early stages this is going to seem like an incredibly simple house and in fact it’s going to seem as though it’s a pretty cheap house to build. But as we develop our project further on, you’ll realize that things aren’t quite as simple or quite as inexpensive as they appear early on. The other thing to bear in mind is that as we’re working away, particularly through these earlier sections, I’m going to show you one or two ways of doing things and later on I’ll show the alternative ways or many of the alternative ways. So you may find that if I do something in a particular way early on here you may prefer one of the ways that I show you later on. But I don’t want to get too bogged down in showing you all of the alternatives all of the time so I’m going to go for pretty straightforward options to begin with. And the first straightforward option we’re going to go for is I’m not going to be tempted to search for a template for building a house. I’m going to start with a blank project. So, on the start screen, Project 2013, just click on Blank project.

Now I said I was going to use a very simple model for building this house, so the first thing we’re going to do is to prepare the site.

Now when you’re entering the sequence of steps that have to be followed to do something, the sequence of steps that constitute your project, you can actually put them into Microsoft Project in any order you like. Even though I know that I’m not going to put the roof on first, I could put Put roof on as my first task, and then I could sort out the sequence later. But it does make a lot of sense to do things pretty much in the order that you intend to do them in the project. And the first task in this project is Prepare site so I’m going to enter that task into the project first.

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