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Alright in the last module we saw we generated this new project called VTC Commercial. Let's start to work with this project a little bit and you probably can see from the Gant charts its pretty intuitive how to add tasks. You can do it certainly using the task pane here or the project guide pane and we'll do that later on but for now we just want to start typing here, get our hands on this thing as quickly as possible. Begin project and the duration one day, maybe two days, maybe even let's say zero days which when I hit enter here would make it a zero day task which would make it a milestone, I'll explain what that is why that is later on. Now we can just add task by using the arrow keys and entering combinations and tab and so on to add tasks and this one will be two days and then finally we will add, this is task 2 and this is one day. We've added a couple of tasks here but the purpose of this module is not to show you how to start adding task and generate project but rather to point out some of the new features. So this is addressed to mainly the 25 percent of the audience here, again I'm assuming, that has used project 2003 before. When I do this which is control Z, I am showing you a new feature and this is multiple levels of undo which was not available before with project 2003. So if used 2003 before you probably pulled out your hair on a number of occasions thinking why can't I undo multiple levels here and that has been addressed. That's one of the things that has been addressed with this edition of Project. Some other new features that'll I'll be highlighting through out the course of this tutorial, now I don't have like a section of like let's look at this new feature, this new feature, this new feature and so on, I'm just kind of gathering them up here so that you know these things are to come in the tutorial. So we'll look at the multiple undo levels as we saw before and you can actually go back and pick an exact multiple or an exact undo level, you don't have to do it one at a time as I've just showed you. You also have something called named calendar exceptions that you can create, also recurring calendar exceptions and the big difference here or the big deal about name calendar exceptions for example is that you can keep reusing them very, very easily as you generate a calendar and you might say well I have two days off for specific holiday or period or whatever that keeps recurring or this is the way I have my schedule. You also have a new feature called change high lining and change high lining is a very handy, very powerful management technique where you can take a task and if you change some feature of that task or even resource you can then highlight how that will affect other tasks that it is related to. So, what if I do this, then here's what happens, here's the cascading effect, that's how change high lining works. Other new features include some of the new view enhancements. This include calendar enhancements and also Gant chart enhancements and then you have something called visual reporting that we get to in our chapter on visual reporting other new features that are available with this version of project. Finally what worth pointing out here also is that I'm using the project professional edition and there are multiple editions of project in fact that you can read about at office.Microsoft.com again and the one that I'm using is this one, Office Project Professional. There's Project Standard, Project Professional and Project Web Access and they all have different requirements. So I want you to know that before we go in. The Project Professional is actually going to be the most flexible tool that we have for Project Management, in fact if you look at some of the features here, availability, what is available with it, the Project Professional you see covers all the basis where as Project Web Access is only available from the web and Project Standard can't collaborate with Project 2007 Server. In fact see it's a little hard with my resolution, its worth pointing out a little change you can make in Internet Explorer 7, this is a custom zoom level. So you can peruse this information as you please. You can look up a web page as easily as I can. But this just gives you an overview of some of the differences. So if you're looking for something and your like wait a minute I don't see that, he's made up his own version of Project it may be because your using the Project Standard Version which I bet if you go down to the store and just pull it off the shelf you probably would grab the Project Standard Edition, the Project Professional Edition is of course the one that I am using. So you kind of have to look and make sure that your grabbing the right one if you want to collaborate with Project Server and that's going to be the big difference in this tutorial between the two you're going to see is that I'm going need Project Professional to connect to the Project server that I am going to set up for later chapters. But for the most part, most of the topics that we deal with in this tutorial, again about 75 percent of the topics have to do with things that will be covered on both editions, both the standard and the professional and that is just simply getting a project up and running. The big different in Project Standard is that it's going to be configured and set up, the data file is going to be on your computer, in Project Server 2007 that data file or that information is going to live on the server and it's going to be worked with, with the client application. But there's the feature matrix as you can see here and you can scroll this again on your own, but I just wanted to point out there is a page that compares the edition. I'm using Project 2000 Professional, but even if you're using the standard edition you're going to be able to follow along just fine with the vast, vast majority of the modules in this tutorial.