Project Management using Microsoft Excel
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Melissa Esquibel
Webinar Description
There’s hardly a profession today that doesn’t involve some level of project management. However, if you do not have access to a project management application like Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel is an excellent alternative. Applying accepted project management practices and a robust tool like Excel can help keep you and your project team on track. Why Excel? Well, when you think about it had the two major components required for a project management tool: List management and date formulas. It is easily customizable and easy to protect to ensure that only prescribed changes can be made by others.
In this webinar we’ll cover…
• The do’s and don’ts of building lists to optimize the full set of Excel tools available
• Project management principles for constructing a good task list
• Project management templates available from Microsoft and how to customize them
• The fundamentals of Excel time & date math
• Employing Excel data visualization techniques to report progress and flag exceptions
Attend this webinar and you will learn how to use:
• Conditional formatting
• Time & date math Functions
• Table formatting
• Filtering
• Charts & graphs
• Using and saving templates
• Worksheet protection to control changes
Logistics
- 90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. You may listen to the audio of the webinar by telephone or through your computer. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.
What is a webinar?
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What kind of equipment do I need?
You will need a computer with an Internet connection (high speed service such as DSL or cable works best) and a telephone. You may listen to the webinar through your computer speakers, in which case you will not need to use a telephone connection. Internet access is not required for phone-only participants, but you will not be able to see the speaker’s slides.
How can I share the webinar with my colleagues who may not be able to attend the event?
CDs of each program will be available for sale and can be shared with your business associates.
Can I get a copy of the PowerPoint slides used in the webinar?
The PowerPoint slides will be available on the materials page link in the confirmation email that will be sent to you no later than the morning of the day a webinar is presented.
How do I ask a question during the webinar? Will my question be answered during the presentation?
A question and answer session will be scheduled at the end of each webinar. You can then ask a question by typing it into the question box that will be provided to you duringthe webinar. You may also ask a question through the telephone connection. As many questions as possible will be answered during the Question and Answer period.