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Alright so let's get things started here with Project 2007, start to formally look at the product in this second module in this tutorial of many, many modules to come. So we'll start with clicking the start menu and I'm using Windows Vista and you may be able to notice this from the desktop background or certainly the start menu. But it doesn't matter if you're using Vista or XP, Project 2007 works just great on both of them. And of course this is not a course about how to use either of those operating systems, to launch you just find the program shortcut. It can be in all programs, in Vista you can just start typing P-R-O-J and Office Project will launch, if you've launched it a couple of times before it should be in your quick list of items but however you do it, we're launching it and this is what the window looks like. Now if you have any familiarity with other Office 2007 products you might notice that this looks different then the other ones. A lot of the other 2007 products in Office have undergone a major overhaul in the user interface and that overhaul was called the ribbon and the ribbon did away with what you see in Project which is a series of menus and these toolbars. All of that's gone in Word, in Excel, in PowerPoint as you just saw when I used PowerPoint to show the stuff in the previous module. But unlike the other products in Office 2007, Project 2007 has not undergone a big overhaul in it's look and feel in the interface. So we're still going to use a very similar interface to what we used in Project 2003 and that is you have these menus at the top of the screen here, the top of your project window and then you have a couple toolbars underneath including this one and this is what we're going to take a look at in this module and that is the Project Guide. That should be snapped in by default and the Project Guide has four different subsections, tasks, resources, track and report and then you also have a task pane or project guide, pane which you can toggle on and off with this little button right here. So to give yourself more desktop real estate which I'll do from time to time because I'm limited with the resolution, you're probably working at a higher resolution and can see more information then I can see. But I'm most of the time have this Project Guide opened up so that we can see the list of tasks or the list of resources. So this Project Guide is very goal oriented. You start with the end in mind and if we're starting a new project make sure that you have the task grouping selected in the Project Guide toolbar and then click on this task, which is the first task that you see, this little hyperlink that says define the project. So I click there and I'm walk through a wizard from within the project guide paint itself and all I have to do is enter the project information. I'm going to start this, let's just say the following Monday and then I continue to step two with this little link at the bottom. Do we want to collaborate on your project and this brings up some of the things that I mentioned in the introductory module which is Project Server, Project Web Access, which lets me- opens up this information that's going to be in this project to other people that I designate. So right now I'm going to say no, but of course I can do this later on which of course I will and then go on to step three. Enter additional information, so really as your starting out a new project there's really not a whole lot to it, all you have to do is define the start date, decide whether or not you're going to collaborate right away, which of course you never have to do that right away and then click on save and finish and now I've got a new project file started, this project starts on, in this case April 9th. Probably your last order of business as you go ahead and get a project started is that you want to save it right away. So you can go to file save or use the button in the toolbar here and I'll navigate down to my VTC folder, Project 2007 and notice the default file extension, which is .MPPF. So I'll type in VTC commercial, because we'll create a project here for the most part that will have to do with building a commercial or shooting a commercial for the Virtual Training Company, so there we go, I give it a name, it will append the file extension automatically, click on save and bingo, in the title bar the title should change. So you just started a project, we've just begun the process of learning this application.