Microsoft Project Standard 2010 (PC)

Microsoft Project Standard 2010 gives you a new and easier way to manage projects. With significant updates and visual enhancements, Project Standard 2010 delivers better experiences to simply be more productive and successfully complete all types of projects.

For everyday tasks to complex projects and programs, Microsoft Project 2010 combines powerful planning capabilities with advanced collaboration tools to help your agency set realistic expectations - and manage time, personnel, and resources to stay on time and budget. Microsoft Project Standard 2010 gives individual users an intuitive, easy way to lay out tasks and timelines.

WHAT'S NEW:

Microsoft Fluent User Interface

• Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive Microsoft Fluent user interface -- new graphical menus and a familiar experience provide the tools you need to plan and manage your project.
• Task-oriented tabs and contextual menu groupings reveal powerful features, making it easier to get started and realize results.
• Learn about features and rich formatting controls quickly with descriptive tooltips and drop-down galleries.
• Simply be more productive by choosing your own menu options, quick access toolbar settings and setting defaults.
• Save to XPS or PDF. Quickly share, print, and publish project information from one location using the new Microsoft Office Backstage view.

Excel-Like Flexibility & Ease

• Enhanced copy and paste makes it easy to share information effectively with other Microsoft Office applications while retaining formatting.
• Add columns dynamically by entering data without having to first select the data type.
• Simplify data entry with auto-complete which displays a list of previously used values to select from.
• Automatic text wrap eliminates extra formatting steps by adjusting row height to display full task names.
• Quickly mine data and analyze results with easy access filtering for all columns.
• Create emphasis with rich color options and text formatting to express ideas and solve problems in new ways.

User-Controlled Scheduling

• Gain flexibility with user-controlled scheduling -- manually schedule tasks with the information you have right now or choose to automatically schedule tasks with calculated dates and durations.
• Be alerted to potential scheduling concerns with squiggly lines and choose how to manage potential problems.
• Gain insight with the Task Inspector to recognize issues and take action early -- solving problems before they occur.
• Support rolling wave planning and easily create high level forecasts using manually scheduled top down summary tasks.
• Identify gaps by comparing manually scheduled summary tasks with information rolled up from subtasks.
• In Microsoft Project Professional 2010, you can simplify planning with inactive and activetasks to perform what-if analysis.

Timeline View

• Simply create the ultimate graphical timeline to express your schedule and plan.
• It's easier to see and share -- drill into details and visually recognize differences with a clear view of tasks, milestones, and phases.
• Reach your audience with new impact by quickly copying the timeline into an email, presentation, or any other document with formatting retained.

TOP BENEFITS:

Microsoft Project 2010 delivers powerful, visually enhanced ways to effectively manage a wide range of projects and programs. From meeting crucial deadlines to selecting the right resources and empowering your teams, Project 2010 offers easier and more intuitive experiences to help you simply be more productive and realize amazing results.

Familiar and intuitive.

• The Ribbon makes finding and using your favorite tools simpler with new graphical menus and a familiar experience to help you easily create and manage projects. Tooltips and contextual guidance provide information and shortcuts so you can accomplish more in less time. In the new Microsoft Office Backstage view, simply save, share, print, or publish your projects from one location.

• Save time and effort.
  Save time and effort with familiar and essential functions like text wrapping, filtering, auto-complete, scroll and zoom, and more. Insert new columns on the fly -- data types are readily identified so that you can quickly and effectively organize and analyze details. Quickly share schedule details through enhanced copy-and-paste, and retain key formatting between Project 2010 and other Microsoft Office applications.

• Flexible and powerful.
  User-controlled scheduling puts you in control and brings together the flexibility and ease of use of a tool like Microsoft Excel 2010 and the power of the Project 2010 scheduling engine. Create project schedules at the level of detail that's right for your project. Work with summary data initially or shift to a more detailed approach when it's convenient. Place notes as reminders of where additional schedule information is needed, or simply add information as it becomes available.

• Easier to see and share.
  With a completely new and visually enhanced timeline view, you'll have a clearer view of tasks, milestones, and phases. Newly expanded color palettes and text effects help you make every timeline and plan look their best -- and help you to swiftly see and share important dates and deliverables.

• Control and deliver.
  Quickly compare budget versus actual versus forecasted values to measure an initiative's progress with the flexibility of setting multiple baselines. Create high-level time-phased budgets with user-defined categories for costs and labor. Validate budgets against bottom-up estimates built by using labor, material, and cost resources. Control project costs by comparing budgets to completed tasks and forecasted totals. Use built-in earned-value metrics for predictive analysis and integrated performance management.

• Enhance performance.
  Use the 64-bit options of Project 2010 to enhance performance and support very large projects and programs. Project Standard 2010 and Project Professional 2010 are offered in 32-bit and 64-bit options to support a diverse range of project types and sizes.
  64-bit options take advantage of the expanded memory and optimized capabilities of the latest processors and of the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. 64-bit Project Professional 2010 also offers enhanced performance and handles extremely large project files with ease when connected to Project Server 2010.