Managing a project; recognizing management tools; starting Microsoft Project 98; using the interface; starting, saving, and closing a project; displaying and hiding toolbars; changing working hours; adding a non-working day; opening an existing project; exiting Microsoft Project 98

Working with tasks and durations; entering, editing, and filtering tasks; entering milestone tasks; entering, viewing, hiding, and editing recurring tasks

Linking and unlinking tasks; inserting, deleting, and moving a task; changing tasks relationships; applying lag and lead time and constraints; entering a start or finish date

Outlining, indenting, and outdenting tasks; collapsing and expanding an outline; linking summary tasks; viewing the WBS codes

Working with and changing views; using a combination view; changing the view in a pane; formatting timescales, text, bars, and gridlines; zooming the timescale; creating a formatting style; printing a view

Creating resources; assigning resources to groups, a resource to a task, and various resources to a task; removing a resource assignment; changing the task type; and contouring a work assignment

Using calendars, changing resource working hours, adding a non-working day for a resource, creating a base calendar, assigning a base calendar to resources and projects

Addressing resource overallocation, viewing resource usage, resolving conflicts by increasing units, leveling a resource, specifying leveling timeframes, setting leveling options, leveling by entering a delay amount, clearing leveling, changing leveling to automatic, setting task level priority

Defining costs; assigning standard and overtime rates, a cost per use to a resource, resource codes, a resource rate table, fixed resource costs, and a fixed cost to a task; selecting an accrual method; creating a resource rate table; viewing resource and task costs