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Risk management is the process of identifying, mitigating, and controlling the known risks in order to increase the probability of meeting your project objectives. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how to use Project 2007 to help manage project risks.

Project 2007 uses a powerful scheduling engine to help align your organization's projects and tasks with available resources. Understanding how Project 2007 schedules work is a key factor in making intelligent planning decisions.

With Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, you can check out a project that you are working on, send it to someone else for review, and then check the file back into Project Server 2007 with changes made by the reviewer. This can be particularly helpful in a situation where the reviewer does not have access to your Project Server.

Read about the 6 steps to a better password; plus, common strategies it's better to avoid.

See how to change the order in which stacked individual components (objects, placeholders, or shapes) or grouped components appear on a slide, so that one appears in front of another.

Learn how to create a presentation that allows for highly flexible access across all visual content, allowing instant tailoring to customer needs and interest, or any objections that might arise along the way.

Assume you discovered a problem with your project's budget. Now what? Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to discover how Project 2007 can help you fix the problem and re-optimize the schedule for cost.

There are four types of calendars in Project 2007: base, project, resource, and task. You can modify these calendars to define the working days and hours for the whole project, for groups of resources, for individual resources, and for tasks.

Download updates to the Help files for Project 2007 and the entire 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Monitoring your project's costs is critical to your project's financial success. Monitoring costs involves reviewing the basic cost information on a repeated basis, as well as performing a more detailed analysis of cost information. This goal, part of the Project Map, shows you how to use Project 2007 to monitor costs.

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Add text comments or highlight key points by adding callouts or lines to your SmartArt graphic.

This PowerPoint show counts the first 25 days of December. You can play with the calendar in one sitting, or refuse to peak, and use it to countdown the holiday day by day. Select the corresponding button(s) reflecting the day(s).

A project is simply a set of activities that occur according to a schedule, and that produce some kind of output. Some projects stand alone, with no relationship to other work going on in an organization. On the other hand, some projects are part of larger efforts, like phases, processes, programs, and portfolios. This article can help you get a handle on these concepts and better understand how your project fits into your organization’s big picture.

Learn how to insert pictures into your SmartArt graphic to create a more compelling document, worksheet, or presentation.

Read about how ten years ago, a professor, Dr. C. June Maker, rebelled against the normal PowerPoint mentality of reams of bullet points and linear slide shows to become a pioneer of the visually interactive presentation.

Learn how to run your PowerPoint 2007 presentation from one monitor (your laptop, for example) while your audience views it on a second monitor (projected on a larger screen, for example).

Check out the new podcasts available for PowerPoint from Office OFFline and our community podcasters. Watch the latest demos optimized for mobile devices and listen to experts who can deliver tips, tricks, and training direct to your computer.

Illustrate the reporting relationships in your company or organization by creating a SmartArt graphic that uses an organization chart layout.

See Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 in action. This demo shows you how PowerPoint 2007 can help you create dynamic and high-impact presentations faster than ever before using new graphics capabilities, formatting tools, and sharing functionalities — all presented in the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.