Microsoft Office Project 2003

Microsoft Office Project 2003 enhancements

What's new in Project home


Copy Picture to Office Wizard

Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003 and Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 provide the Copy Picture to Office Wizard to make displaying project data as a static picture in other applications in the Microsoft Office System, such as Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, very easy. You can find the Copy Picture to Office Wizard on the Analysis toolbar.

Print a view as a report

Printing a view the way you want has been made easier in Project Standard 2003 and Project Professional 2003. A wizard to help you print a view as a report is available in the Report task pane of the Project Guide.

Resource booking types

To specify resource assignments as proposed (for example, in projects that are still in the proposal phase) or committed, you can assign booking types to resources in Project Professional 2003. A new resource field contains the booking type (committed or proposed) that can be applied to all of a resource's assignments in the project. Booking types are also used in Microsoft Office Project Web Access 2003, where a resource manager can use it to staff projects in the new Build Team feature or to assess capacity versus demand in the Resource Availability Graph.

Multiple resource skills for resources

Project Professional 2003 provides Enterprise Resource Multi-Value (ERMV) fields to include additional resource skill sets. ERMV fields can be used in resource views to maintain the skills inventory of enterprise resources, in the Build Team feature to search for resources with several skills, and in the Resource Substitution Wizard or Portfolio Modeler to consider the multiple skills of a resource.

Locking of baseline information

In Project Professional 2003, you can prevent others from overwriting baseline information. On the Admin page in Project Web Access 2003, a server administrator can specify who can or cannot save a baseline in Project Professional 2003.

Installed COM add-ins

The following previously downloadable Project Component Object Model (COM) add-ins are now automatically installed with Project Standard 2003 and Project Professional 2003:

You can find the Visio WBS Chart Wizard and XML Reporting Wizard on the Analysis toolbar. The other COM add-ins have their own, separate toolbars.