Microsoft Project - The Basics - The Project Guide

The Project Guide 

Microsoft Project comes with a guide to help you set up a project plan.  The guide is a wizard that will take you all the way through setting up a project plan. 

It lists the steps that need to be done to set up a project plan and then track and report on it.  But as with most Microsoft wizards, it does not give all the options and facilities of the package. 

Once the guide is displayed, there are two parts. 

1. The toolbar – where you can choose what stage you are in the process.

2. The guide – which lists what needs to be done.

Notice the first two steps given in the guide 

The guide is not displayed as a standard in Project 2007 and should you wish to use it, it needs to be turned on.

To turn on the guide.

1. Menu, Tools, Options

2. Click on the interface tab

3. Select Display Project Guide in the Project Guide Settings

4. Accept changes by clicking on OK.

This turns on the project guide for all project plans until you go through and turn the guide off.