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Chapter 1: Project Management: What It Is, and Why You Should Care
Figure 1-14:
Open a
template
from the
Available
Templates
screen
in the
Backstage.
3. Click a template to display a preview.
As shown in Figure 1-15, a preview of the selected template appears at
the far right.
4. When you find the template you want to use, click Download.
The template opens in Project template format (MPT). You can then use
the Save As command on the File tab to save the file as a regular Project
file (the correct type will be selected automatically) with a new name.
From there, you can delete tasks, move tasks around, or add tasks as
necessary for your project.
After opening a template, be sure to check its project information
(choose Project➪Project Information) to make sure that the Start Date
and Calendar options are set as you want.
If you modify a file and think that you might use that set of tasks again for
future projects, consider saving the file as a custom template. Just choose
File➪Save As, and then select Project Template in the Save as Type list.
Note that after you download a template, you can select it without download-
ing it again. To do so, choose File➪New, click My Templates at the top of
the Available Templates screen, and then double-click the template in the
Personal Templates tab of the New dialog box.
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