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Project 2016 is a desktop tool for managing individual projects. Leverage built-in templates, Gantt charts, timelines, out-of-box reports, resource planning, and many other features to help manage your projects successfully. Learn more.

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What's new in Project 2016

Basic tasks in Project

Create a new project schedule

Import Excel data into Project

Indicators field

Keyboard shortcuts for Project 2016

How Project schedules tasks: Behind the scenes

Scheduling

Create a new project schedule

Set the start date or finish date for your project

Link projects to create a master project

Show the critical path of your project

Set and save a baseline

Create WBS codes

Show slack in your project

How Project schedules tasks: Behind the scenes

Tasks

Add new tasks

Create subtasks and summary tasks

Create recurring tasks

Add a milestone

Set a deadline for a task

Change a task duration

Link tasks in a project

Add lead or lag time to a task

How Project schedules tasks: Behind the scenes

Resources

Overview: Resource engagements

Request a resource's time

Assign people to work on tasks

Level resource assignments

Set task priorities for resource leveling

IM chat with a team member in Project using Skype for Business

Calendars

Add holidays and vacation days

Change working days for the project calendar

Add a calendar to a task

How Project schedules tasks: Behind the scenes

Costs and budgets

Manage costs

Enter costs for resources

Earned value analysis, for the rest of us

Change how things look

Change the date format

Wrap text and change row height in a Project view

Hide or unhide a column in a Project view

Show task names next to Gantt chart bars

Change the timescale in a Project view

Change the color of external links

Show the project summary task

Rename a project

Views

Split a view

Show the project summary task

Create a Network Diagram

Show and hide some or all subtasks

Sort tasks, resources, or dates

Project functions for custom fields

Reporting

Create a project report

Create a burndown report

Print a customized legend or title

Print, save, and export

Print a project schedule

Save a project file

Save a project file as PDF

Copy reports, calendars, and views using the Organizer

Export project data to Excel

File formats supported by Project 2016

Project Online is a cloud solution that's great for managing multiple projects, tracking work on timesheets, and balancing broad resource needs. It offers full portfolio and project management tools on the web, managed through Microsoft 365. Learn more.

Get started with PPM

Get started with Project Online

Install Project

Start a project in Project Online

What can team members do in Project Online?

Add Project Online to your Office 365 account

Understanding identity management in Project Online

Supporting your Project Online adoption with a Project Management Office (PMO)

Project Online: software boundaries and limits

Tune Project Online performance

Download: Quick Start Guides for Project Online and Project Server 2013

Download: Working on tasks in Project Web App

Troubleshoot problems

I can't figure out how to install Project. Help?

What's the difference between Project Online and Project Professional?

I can't access Project Online. What should I do?

What should I do if my Project Online administrator gets locked out?

Why do my dates keep moving around?

An indicator says a resource is overloaded. How come?

When I copy and paste a task, I lose its duration and dependencies. Why?

"Create New Calendar" is greyed out. How do I change working days?

Search the Support KB

Ask the Project community

More fixes for recent issues

Projects

Start a project in Project Online

Open a project for editing

Open a project in Project Professional

Publish a project

Export your project to Excel

Change a project’s template

Add an issue to a project

Add a risk to a project

View a project document

Create unique Project IDs for my projects in Project Online

Tasks

Create a new task

Indent or outdent tasks in your project

Link tasks in your project

Set a baseline for your project

Add tasks and projects to the timeline

Link risks, issues, files, or deliverables to tasks

Get email reminders about your work in Project Online

Download: Working on tasks in Project Web App

Resources

Add a resource to Project Web App

Add or update enterprise resources using an external data file

Overview: Resource engagements

Accept or reject an engagement request

Evaluate resource capacity

Best practices to improve Resource Engagements performance

Time

Track your time and task progress

Enter hours on your timesheet

Add a task to your timesheet

Capture vacation, sick leave, and other non-project hours

Turn in a timesheet

Take back a timesheet that you sent for approval

Assign someone else to enter your time and task progress

Get email reminders about your work in Project Online

Task progress

Track work in Project Online

Time vs. task progress: What's the difference?

Report your task progress

Hand off work to someone else

Assign someone else to enter your time and task progress

Get email reminders about your work in Project Online

Reporting

What reporting tools can I use with project data?

Use Excel to create a new Project Online report

SharePoint integration

Overview: View a SharePoint task list in Project Web App

Add an existing SharePoint task list to Project Web App

Work with a SharePoint task list in Project Web App

View an imported SharePoint task list in Project Web App

Edit a SharePoint task list in Microsoft Project Professional

Change a SharePoint task list into an enterprise project

Remove a SharePoint task list from Project Web App

Set up

Project Online administrator resources

Get email reminders about your work in Project Web App

FAQ: Resource engagements are replacing the old resource plans

Configure the Resource Center

Add a resource to Project Web App

Add or update enterprise resources using an external data file

Project Online client requirements

Renew your Project Online plans in a larger organization

Important information for Project Online customers about plan changes

Project Server is a web-based solution that's great for managing multiple projects, tracking work on timesheets, and balancing broad resource needs. It offers full portfolio and project management tools on the web, managed by your organization's IT department. Learn more.

Get started with PPM

Create a project in Project Web App

Download: Quick Start Guides for Project Online and Project Server 2013

Download: Working on tasks in Project Web App

Troubleshoot problems

I can't figure out how to install Project. Help?

Why do my dates keep moving around?

An indicator says a resource is overloaded. How come?

When I copy and paste a task, I lose its duration and dependencies. Why?

"Create New Calendar" is greyed out. How do I change working days?

Search the Support KB

Ask the Project community

More fixes for recent issues

Projects

Create a project in Project Web App

Open a project for editing

Open a project in Project Professional

Publish a project

Export your project to Excel

Change a project’s template

Add an issue to a project

Add a risk to a project

View a project document

Tasks

Create a new task

Indent or outdent tasks in your project

Link tasks in your project

Set a baseline for your project

Add tasks and projects to the timeline

Link risks, issues, files, or deliverables to tasks

Download: Working on tasks in Project Web App

Resources

Add a resource to Project Web App

Add or update enterprise resources using an external data file

Overview: Resource engagements

Accept or reject an engagement request

Evaluate resource capacity

Time

Track your time and task progress

Enter hours on your timesheet

Add a task to your timesheet

Capture vacation, sick leave, and other non-project hours

Turn in a timesheet

Take back a timesheet that you sent for approval

Assign someone else to enter your time and task progress

Task progress

Track your time and task progress

Time vs. task progress: What's the difference?

Report your task progress

Hand off work to someone else

Assign someone else to enter your time and task progress

Reporting

What reporting tools can I use with project data?

Use Excel to create a new Project Server report

SharePoint integration

Overview: View a SharePoint task list in Project Web App

Add an existing SharePoint task list to Project Web App

Work with a SharePoint task list in Project Web App

View an imported SharePoint task list in Project Web App

Edit a SharePoint task list in Microsoft Project Professional

Change a SharePoint task list into an enterprise project

Remove a SharePoint task list from Project Web App