About the Microsoft Project User Interface

Quick reference

• 00:04 Before we get started using Microsoft Project,
• 00:07 I'm going to walk you through the various aspects of the user interface.
• 00:11 There's essentially seven areas of the Microsoft Project user interface.
• 00:16 There is the backstage, and that's accessed through this file tab.
• 00:27 There's the ribbon bar, the timeline and you may or
• 00:31 may not see the timeline on all the views that you go to.
• 00:37 There's an area to view views and tables, and we'll talk about what those mean.
• 00:44 Then there's the Status Bar that shows you information about your project,
• 00:49 View Shortcuts and the Zoom Slider.
• 00:54 Our first area of focus is going to be on the Ribbon.
• 00:57 Now, this is the Ribbon bar in terms of how Microsoft defines it.
• 01:04 I'm really going to refer to the ribbon as being essentially this entire
• 01:09 upper portion of Microsoft Project.
• 01:12 And this is because all these user interface elements kind of work together.
• 01:18 Before I start talking about these various tabs,
• 01:21 one of the things I would like to point out is your screen and my screen
• 01:25 might actually look different right now, and that’s important to talk about.
• 01:30 Because the ribbon is essentially what we call a responsive ribbon.
• 01:35 And what is responsive mean?
• 01:37 It means that it’s going to respond differently to how large the screen is,
• 01:43 maybe the resolution of your computer, or
• 01:45 maybe just how large you happen to have project on your screen right now.
• 01:49 Let me show you what this means.
• 01:51 I am going to click on the view tab, and
• 01:54 right now I can see all the icons here with their labels.
• 01:58 I am going to ask you to focus your attention on these three icons here.
• 02:02 This is task views group.
• 02:04 I'm gonna highlight a few things.
• 02:07 There's an icon and then it says network diagram, an icon and
• 02:10 then it say calendar, an icon and it says other views.
• 02:13 It's all spelled out for me.
• 02:15 Now I'm going to resize the screen for Microsoft Project.
• 02:20 Keep your eyes over there on that network diagram calendar and other views.
• 02:25 I'm going to stretch the window down a bit here and
• 02:29 as I do that you can see these are no longer icons with the label next to them.
• 02:35 There just icons.
• 02:36 Now I can mouse over and I can see them.
• 02:39 I can see what they mean.
• 02:41 And so this is a timeline,
• 02:42 this is a calendar because I'm getting this little popup.
• 02:46 However, it's not spelled out for me in either.
• 02:48 Now, you can see over here, there's a sort, outline, and
• 02:51 tables under this data grouping.
• 02:54 I'm going to shrink project a little bit more.
• 02:57 Keep an eye on that sort, outline, and tables, and
• 03:02 now you can see those are just icons without labels.
• 03:06 And this is what I mean be responsive.
• 03:09 The ribbon is going to respond to how large the screen is and determine
• 03:14 what icons you see, and how much detail you get when you stretch your window.

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