Before installing Project the first time, sign in with an existing or new Microsoft Account and enter your product key* at microsoft365.com/setup. Redeeming your key links your account with the Project app and you only have to do this once.

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Project Online and Project desktop Quick Start Guides for Project Online and Project Server 2013 Create a project in Project desktop

Project for the web gives us an opportunity to re-imagine Microsoft Project. Rather than re-building feature by feature, we are focused on providing capabilities that meet the changing needs of work management.

Get started managing a new project. Add, outline, and link tasks, switch to different views, and print your project.

Create a new project file and then get your project going. Set the start date, project title, add tasks, and show the project summary task.

In a nutshell, project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to complete a specific goal. And then everything goes wrong. The following articles can arm you with the basics to manage a project and deal with the problems that come up.

In Project, you can: Create project plans. Build project teams and allocate resources. See different views of task and resources. Measure progress. Manage budgets. This Quick Start is specific to Microsoft Project 2019, 2016, and the Microsoft 365 subscription Project Online Desktop Client.

Many project managers use the Project Online desktop client as a personal productivity tool for their PM needs. They build schedules in the client, save them as .mpp files, share these files with others, and keep them updated as the project progresses.

You can open a project from Project Web App for viewing and editing in Microsoft Project Professional 2016 or Microsoft Project Pro for Office 365.

Project Home gives you a birds-eye view of the projects and roadmaps that matter the most. It helps you keep track of important projects by letting you mark them favorites, so you'll see them at the top of the Project Home page.