Microsoft Office Project 2007

Microsoft Office Project 2007

Introduction

This paper will be discussing the steps of installing Microsoft 2007 and a breakdown of how and what functions it posses. We will be discussing all the steps in detail and will provide snapshots of the installation process so that it would be easier to understand.

Microsoft Project was initially proposed by Microsoft's Manager of Product Development, Alan M. Boyd as an internal tool to help manage the huge number of software projects that were in development at any time inside the company (Nocêra, 2003). Boyd wrote the specification and engaged a local Seattle company to develop the prototype. The first commercial version of Project was released for DOS in 1984. Microsoft bought all rights to the software in 1985 and released version 2. Version 3 for DOS was released in 1986. Version 4 for DOS was the final DOS version, released in 1986. The first Windows version was released in 1990, and was labeled version 1 for Windows.

Discussion

In this paper we will learn, How to Install Microsoft Office 2007. Microsoft Office 2007 is a collection of individual applications that help drive productivity and manage many forms of data either at home or at the office. Installing Microsoft Office 2007 is exceptionally easy and you can be using it within about five minutes of starting the installation process. Workshop parts include:

Microsoft Office 2007 Installation Disk 

Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key

Microsoft Office 2007 Installation Disk

Place the disk in your CD/DVD ROM drive.

This guide will assume that you will be installing Microsoft Office 2007 from the CD/DVD drive. This guide will apply to all versions of Microsoft Office 2007 as there is no noticeable difference when installing different versions of Microsoft Office 2007. The only expected difference is the applications that you can install and this is dependent on the version of Microsoft Office 2007 you have purchased.

First Microsoft Office 2007 will be installed then we will customize it and will prepare for Microsoft Project 2007 installation. In Appendix you can see all the required steps. I have also attached MS Project file in which all the tasks are mentioned and it presents a WBS of all the steps.

Project creates budgets based on assignment work and resource rates. As resources are assigned to tasks and assignment work estimated, the program calculates the cost, equal to the work times the rate, which rolls up to the task level and then to any summary tasks and finally to the project level. Resource definitions (people, equipment and materials) can be shared between projects using a shared resource pool (Nancy, 2007). Each resource can have its own calendar, which defines what days and shifts a resource is available. Resource rates are used to calculate resource assignment costs which are rolled up and summarized at the resource level. Each resource can be assigned to multiple tasks in multiple plans and each task can be assigned multiple resources, and the application schedules task work based on the resource availability as defined in the ...