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As the author of the "Ask the Expert" column published monthly by the Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUG), we have had the opportunity to answer questions posed by students in classes as well as from the readers of this column.

Below are articles that have been published over the last several years. This page will be updated monthly with the new article of the month as well as other tips and tricks that might be helpful to Microsoft Project users at all levels of experience.

We hope that you will return to this page frequently and that these articles will help you with your questions to help you understand your usage of MS Project and MS Project Server.

We also encourage you to write questions to LehnertCS, LLC that we could develop into "Ask the Expert" articles. Please send your questions using the form on the "Contact Us" page of this website.

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Ezine Articles
Date	Title

2011.11	Using the Timeline View to help sell your project
2011.10	Resource is overallocated with 2.5 hours assigned in a day – is this a bug
2011.09	How Calendars and Calendar Options affect Assignments
2011.08	Combining Resources over Multiple Projects
2011.06	Manage Cost and Schedule using Hammock Tasks
2011.05	15 tips and tricks for new users of MS Project
2011.04	Working with Projects offline in MS Project Server 2010
2011.01	Configuring MS Project Server 2010 Enterprise Globals
2010.10	Viewing Summary and detail tasks for overallocated resources
2010.09	Updating the Baseline
2010.08	Quick Project Status Report
2010.07	Managing a large number of resources using the Resource Usage view
2010.05	Exporting Detail Tasks to Excel
2010.04	Creating a report using Task and Resource fields
2010.03	Making Sense out of Current Activity Reports
2010.02	What is going on this week?
2010.01	Using Notes for reports and lesson learned
2009.11	Managing a schedule with Drop-dead deadlines
2009.09	Start after a date and end before a date - Applying 2 constraints on 1 task
2009.08	When Linking Summary Tasks Makes Sense
2009.07	Building What-if Slack Time into Your Schedule
2009.06	Making Interim Plans work for you.
2009.05	Limited resource availability schedule creation
2009.04	Getting buy-in from your users
2009.03	MS Project is like a game of Chess
2009.02	Different results in 2003 vs 2007 and New current date
2008.12	Separate duration complete from work complete
2008.11	Displaying availability exceptions Resource Usage
2008.10	Sometimes self-taught is not a good idea
2008.09	Earned Value is not calculating correctly
2008.06	Recurring Holidays on the Project Calendar
2008.05	Print Sections of a Project Schedule
2008.04	Export to Excel and Keep WBS Structure
2008.02	Are you ready for MS Project Server?
2008.01	Resource Group task report
2007.11	Visual Reports to show Resource Assignments
2007.10	Delay the assignment instead of the task
2007.09	What was the orginial duration for a task?
2007.08	Writing reports to a file in MS Project
2007.07	Creating an Effective WBS
2007.06	MS Project file structure
2007.05	SNET Constraint, Timesheets PWA and Flexiable WBS
2007.04	Linking between 2 projects - a matter of symantics
2007.03	Project Progress Comparison
2007.02	Assigning Resource to Summary Tasks
2007.01	Using Resource filters during assignments
2006.12	Measuring against timeframe without a baseline
2006.11	Using the Drawing Toolbar
2006.10	Project Schedule Security
2006.09	Best Practices Using MS Project Sept. 2006
2006.08	Project Work Space
2006.07	Replace a Resource in a Schedule
2006.06	Resource-Driven Scheduling
2006.05	Importing Projects into Project Server
2006.04	Easy MSP Navigation - April 2006
2006.03	Adjusting FF relationship
2006.02	Before you enter the first task
2006.01	Slipping project view and resource report
2005.12	Scheduling work
2005.11	Where my project went wrong
2005.10	Using the organizer
2005.09	Recurring tasks
2005.08	Replace names on Gantt and resource calendars
2005.07	Misuse of contraints
2005.06	Overallocations
2005.05	Hide summaries and macro
2005.04	Combine multiple plans
2005.03	Create run time filter
2005.02	Date format on Gantt Chart
2005.01	100% complete not showing
2004.12	Arrow direction and copy picture
2004.11	Save several baselines
2004.10	Assign resources to summary task
2004.09	Elapsed time
2004.08	PWA show baseline field in timesheet
2004.07	Task Types
2004.04	Adjust date and set calendar first