Cleaning Project Pro Cache

Watch our video about cleaning cache in Microsoft Project:

When you have problems with opening your project from Microsoft Project Server, in most cases to solve that you just need to clean the cache.  

1. Go to the File menu
2. Go to Options
3. Click on Save
4. Find Cache section
5. Click on Clean Up Cache
   

In case Clean Up Cache is not resolving the problem with project: 

1. Copy path from Cache Location box
   
2. Open it in the file explorer
3. Select folders you want to delete
   
    
4. Delete them
5. Restart MS Project Professional 

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Quick Сheck For Project Plan Quality Before Publish

Watch our video about quick check for project plan quality before publish in Microsoft Project:

Recommendations for quick optimization check that you can do before publishing project plan to Microsoft Project Online or Microsoft Project Server:

1. Check if you have any tasks without predecessors or successors. Use standard filters that are available in Project Professional. Right-click to show predecessors and successors. Tasks where they predecessor are empty. 
   
2. Check if every task has assigned resource. Use filter, select Blank. Tasks without Resource Name should be linked. The only exception if that tasks are Milestones.
   
3. Check if task is not Milestone. Use filter, select NO.
   

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What Is The Latest Date I Can Start My Project?

Watch our video about the latest date to start project in Microsoft Project:

By default, Microsoft Project Professional schedules all tasks as soon as possible, so all the default schedules start from the Start Dates. To know what is the latest date you can start your project, ask Project Professional to calculate it:

1. Go to Project Information
   
2. Find Schedule From option
3. Select Project Finish Date from the drop down
   
4. In the Finish Date box, enter the date that you want to schedule from
5. Click OK
6. System automatically will change all the tasks to As Late As Possible Constraint Type and will change the dates.

Project management tip: Never start from recommended date but couple days before, so in case of any unexpected delays you will be able to deliver project on time. Create links between tasks, then Project will schedule your project in the best possible way.

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Adding View and Tables to Global Template

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Global template is a special project template that is associated with every project file that you create. Copying view, table or other elements to the Global template makes it available to all your projects. To do that you need to make sure that checkbox Automatically Add New Views, Tabled, Filters and Groups to the Global is set.

1. Go to the File
2. Select Options
3. Go to Advanced
4. Find Display section
5. Put the checkbox Automatically Add New Views, Tabled, Filters and Groups to the Global
   

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Working with Columns in Project Pro

Watch our video about working with columns in Microsoft Project:

Insert a column:

1. Right-click on the column header of any column in a table
2. Click on the Insert Column
3. Select the column you want to insert from the list of default and custom fields
   

Hide a column:

1. Right-click on the column header of a column you want to hide
2. Click on the Hide Column
   

Rename a column:

1. Double click on the title of the column
2. Type the new title
   

Replace a column with a different one:

1. Double click on the title of the column
2. Pick another column you want to add from the list of default and custom fields

More settings (column text alignment, changing of the column width, another way to change title of column):

1.       Right-click on the column header

2.       Click on Field Settings

3.       From Field Settings dialog box, select the field name you want to change

4.       Type a new title in the Title box

5.       You can use Align Title list or Align Data list to change the alignment of the column title or to change the alignment of the field information itself. You can also enter the number in Width box to change the column width

6.       Click OK

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