Project 2000 allows creating easily projects that involve several teams, services or workgroups inside the corporate. Microsoft Project 2000 leans on a client/server database engine that widely increases its intrinsic performances when consolidating multi projects and preserves the data integrity. Due to its unrivalled new performance and its streamlined efficiency, planning wide projects has never been so easy. Developers can also use Microsoft Project as a base for their own personalized planning solutions. When you want to create a Gantt Chart in Microsoft Project 2000, the steps to follow are almost simple! Indeed as written before you�ll have to type the name of the task, its delay and the beginning and end date. Obviously more features are offered so you can add sub tasks to a parent task and then Project 2000 will display nodes to navigate into hierarchical tasks. You can also add comments to every task: these comments that aren�t show in the Gantt chart are accessible by double clicking a task and you can even change their font style, color, add a picture in it or add an object to it! Each time you double click a task a task information window appears and shows five different tabs that are used to tweak a task and define its status. It�s in these tabs you�ll have to enter the accomplished percentage of the task, the previous task, the priority, and add task constraints. The Gantt view can now displayed all the bars of subordinate tasks on a single line. All the Gantt bars that are reported by a summarized task can be displayed without the need to select each bar, one after one to report them on the summarized task: it�s another great time saving feature. Gantt diagrams can be designed automatically using the built in wizard. When defining Dead lines for a task, the project manager will be able to check the different process as well as the global tendency of the project evolution so he can anticipate risks. Microsoft Project 2000 also supports personalized structural codes so you can assign to the project a specific organization (WBS, OBS, PBS, CBS, etc.). Just like in Microsoft Excel 2000 or Microsoft Word 2000 when you open several Project files a specific button is shown on the Windows taskbar for each opened document so you can easily navigate between them. Microsoft Project 2000 supports the Microsoft Wheel enabled mouse so you can scroll into the charts view easily: this is an important point since generally charts are big and requires intensive use of lifts. Project 2000 users can now create their own hierarchical codes instead of linking them to the project structure. These codes can be used to create new hierarchical structures for tasks or resources (hierarchical codes based on Cost or Work codes by example). If you want to be sure to don�t miss an important task of your project you can add to it graphical indicators. PERT lovers, Microsoft thought of you! PERT diagrams are well used by database engineers of software developers. PERT diagrams are used to know which task should be executed before another and should show the time taken to accomplish the full task. They can now personalize the Task diagrams (previously named PERT network) view with new options like filtering, and layout. 

Microsoft Project 2000 PERT view (click to enlarge)