Run Microsoft Project for the First Time

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this lesson we'll run Microsoft Project for the first time.
• 00:08 I'm gonna show you a few different ways of running Microsoft Project.
• 00:13 The first way is to come down to the Start button, click All Programs.
• 00:24 And then locate Microsoft Office 2013.
• 00:29 And then finally, click Project 2013.
• 00:36 Now a Planning Wizard showing up right now for me.
• 00:40 For the time being, I'm going to cancel this and
• 00:43 show you another way that you can run Project 2013.
• 00:47 Another method for locating the Microsoft Project icon is to just
• 00:52 press the Windows key on your keyboard, I'm doing that right now.
• 00:58 And that automatically opens up the start menu.
• 01:02 So I just press that key, and it's just to the left of my space bar, and
• 01:06 now I'm gonna type Project, and what you can see is Project 2013 shows up there.
• 01:12 If it doesn't, I can just type the full text of Project 2013.
• 01:17 So this nice little search bar lets me find programs.
• 01:22 And then I can just press the Enter or
• 01:24 Return key on my keyboard, and it immediately runs Microsoft Project.
• 01:32 If you happen to be running Windows 8, you might be familiar with the Start screen,
• 01:38 and I'm going to show you what that looks like right here.
• 01:41 Now If you go to the Start screen, and you can do that by
• 01:46 pressing again the Windows key on your keyboard, you can see that, typically,
• 01:50 Microsoft Office does not show up right away on the main screen.
• 01:56 So you need to click this arrow, and this brings you to Apps.
• 02:01 And then you can scroll And
• 02:06 then locate Microsoft Project 2013 in this screen.
• 02:11 You can see I have it right here, and I can go ahead and run it.
• 02:18 Let me show you an easy way of accessing Projects from the Start screen
• 02:23 that does not require all that clicking and scrolling.
• 02:29 So I'm going to go back to the Windows 8 Start screen, and
• 02:33 without doing anything, I don't need to click on anything,
• 02:37 I'm just on the screen, I'm just going to start typing the word Project.
• 02:44 And you can see here that as I type,
• 02:47 a search screen shows up and there's Project 2013.
• 02:51 So I can go ahead and click that and it will run.
• 02:56 Now, for the remainder of this training I'm going to run Microsoft Project
• 03:02 as if it's on my start bar here all the time.
• 03:07 Well, not as if it's on the start bar, it will be on my start bar.
• 03:11 So I'm going to right click and
• 03:14 I'm going to choose, Pin this program to the task bar.
• 03:19 Now when I exit Microsoft Project, you can see I have a link right here,
• 03:24 the icon's available to me.
• 03:26 I can go ahead and click this and run Microsoft Project without having to use
• 03:31 the start menu or the Windows 8 start screen.
• 03:37 So far I've shown you how to access the Microsoft Project icon, but
• 03:41 let's run it for the first time.
• 03:45 Now you may or may not receive a Planning Wizard dialogue.
• 03:51 I'm receiving this because I had an old copy of Microsoft Project,
• 03:56 happened to be Project 2010, and Microsoft Project 2013 is saying,
• 04:02 would you like to upgrade your settings?
• 04:04 Take your settings from Project 2010 and bring them over to 2013,
• 04:10 and that takes a form of this file called the global.mpt file.
• 04:15 Now, this sounds like a good idea, but
• 04:18 actually it's not a good practice to do that.
• 04:21 Why is that?
• 04:22 Well, Microsoft Project 2013 has new features that may not have existed
• 04:28 in 2010, and 2010 might have had old features that don't exist in 2013.
• 04:35 So if I take over these settings,
• 04:38 I run some risks of having problems down the line.
• 04:41 So it's best to just cancel,
• 04:45 do not tell me about this again, and click the Okay button.
• 04:49 Now, what's gonna happen is, Microsoft Project won't give me this
• 04:52 Planning Wizard, but it also won't bring over my old settings from the previous
• 04:57 version of Project, so I will actually have to manually go in and rekey those.
• 05:04 I'll go ahead and click the Okay button, and
• 05:07 I'm just going to exit Project one more time and
• 05:09 go back in so you can see that that Planning Wizard dialog does not appear.
• 05:16 For the next lesson we're gong to be working with a blank project, so
• 05:19 let's just go ahead and choose this Blank Project option right now.
• 05:27 So in summary, in this lesson you have learned how to locate
• 05:31 the Microsoft Project icon, run Microsoft Project, and if you are prompted,
• 05:38 how to upgrade from Project 2010 to Project 2013.

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