You know Microsoft Project

You know Microsoft Project. Good: much of this will feel familiar, and the rest is quick. Open your MPP and find your footing.

First stop: open it. Your MPP goes in as it is, and it stays that way. Your MPP sits in Files like any upload. Its row ends in two doors: View, and Edit.

Edit opens it in a window of its own, to try things out. See Open a schedule. The header says what it is: an MPP, read with the Standard rules, and up to date.

The file is kept as it came. You work on a copy, saved only when you say so. An MPP opens in Full mode: every menu you would expect, at once. Simple is one click away.

Second stop: what reads the same. Similar to Microsoft Project in these respects, so you can put the manual down. Summary rows roll up the tasks beneath them: the earliest start, the latest finish, as you would expect.

Durations read in working days of eight hours, the file's own setting. A day still means a day. Your file opens on Fixed, as uploaded: dates wait for Schedule now, F9. Auto is one option away.

One milestone kind. The Type list offers Task and Milestone, and nothing else to choose from. A deadline sits on the bar as a marker, and never moves the task. See Constraints and dates.

On the chart, a small green marker at the deadline. Finish past it, and it turns red. Schedule options opens on Auto or Fixed. Auto reschedules after every change; Fixed waits for F9.

Hours per day and per week, split tasks, constraints honoured. See Options: Auto, Fixed and the engine block. Third stop: save as. Play first; nothing is written until you decide it is worth keeping.

Change something, say a duration a day longer, and the pill turns amber: not saved until Save as. File, Save as. It is there from the first edit on, and so is the pill's own link.

Save as keeps your edits as a PC.o Schedule beside the file. See Saving, Save as and recovery. Now it is yours: the badge says PC.o, the title says edited, and the MPP is untouched.

From here it saves itself as you go. There is no Save to forget. Fourth stop: a baseline you can open. Here a baseline is a whole schedule, not columns tucked inside this one.

Schedule, Baselines. The copy arrived with one already: the very file you started from. Your MPP, as uploaded, pinned as the baseline. A baseline here is a whole schedule you can open.

The status bar names the baseline in use. A click on it opens the list again. The Baseline preset adds the planned dates and the variance. See Run analysis, compare and baselines.

The extra day shows as a finish variance of 1.0d. The baseline finished it on 30 Sep. Under each bar, a grey strip shows where the baseline had it. The gap is the slip.

Last stop: back out. Someone will want a file, and someone else will want it in Project. File, Export: Microsoft Project XML that Project opens, an Excel Gantt, or a PDF of the chart.

XER and P6 XML are greyed here: both are written from the Advanced engine, not this one. Print to PDF prints the Gantt as it is on screen. See Exports and print.

Back in Files: the MPP as it came, and your copy beneath it. Both open.

That is the walk from Project. Every door you met has its own short entry. Next in the Guide: the library.

Taken from the video’s English captions.