Project Commander - Planning and project management software - construction software

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Project Commander - Planning and project management software - construction software


How to export to Word - September 2007

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Project Commander - planning software Hints Edition2 - June 2007


Click on the links below to download the full 41 page document

Compatibility with Microsoft Project, Borders and Free Training Materails available on our website.

Quick tips (refer to Version 6.5)

  1. Bar Width
  2. Bar types & Legend
  3. Task dates
  4. Don’t show me again
  5. Change task default duration
  6. Input tasks as days and hours as opposed to decimals
  7. Add user columns
  8. Add user text around the bar
  9. Add ID number to all bars
  10. Put timescale headings at bottom of page for A3 or above
  11. Use a Unique Activity Number for tasks as well as an ID
  12. Change timescale date range
  13. Word wrap text descriptions
  14. Change column width
  15. Hide columns
  16. Hide weekend shadings
  17. Save layout as a template
  18. Fit timescale exactly to project dates

Extra help

  1. Linking
  2. Using A3 and larger paper sizes and larger projects

WORD version

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PDF version

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Hints Edition1 - January 2007


Click on the links below to download the full 34 page document

Quick tips (refer to Version 6.5)

PMSC Free Project Viewer and JAWS PDF Creator

1.  Passwords
2.  Show Critical Path as red and non critical bars as blue
3.  Show a tender program with week numbers and no dates
4.  Quick way to colour bars and create a legend
5.  Customise Project Week Numbers at top of chart (to exclude a holiday week)
6.  Shade weekends (and other periods - like school holidays) and schedule bars as if working
7.  Autosave
8.  Date constraints on linked bars
9.  Change global fonts
10. Print continuous pages horizontally for long projects
11. Set default location to open/save from a chosen drive/folder
12. Input costs - labour, plant, materials and other
13. Copy whole rows or range of rows
14. Create your own Views
15. Create your own Reports
16. Create special vertical Date Lines
17. Recover a backup file
18. Change all users to use the same settings setup
  

Extra help

19.  Creating column formulas
20.  Attach freeform text to holiday shadings or Date Lines


WORD version

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PDF version

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