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3. In the Start date box, type or select 1/7/08.
Tip In most cases when you need to enter a date in Project, you can click the down arrow
next to the Date fi eld to show a small monthly calendar. There you can navigate to any
month and then click the date you want, or click Today to quickly choose the current date.
Important If you are using Project Professional, the Project Information and some other
dialog boxes you see will contain additional options. Throughout most of this book we show
Project Standard screen illustrations, but point out some Project Server-related functionality
that is supported in Project Professional and Project Server. In Part 4, “Introducing Project
Server,” we show Project Professional illustrations.
4. Click OK to close the Project Information dialog box.
5. On the Standard toolbar, click the Save button.
Because this project plan has not previously been saved, the Save As dialog box
appears.
6. Locate the Chapter 1 Getting Started folder in the Project 2007 Step by Step folder
on your hard disk. The default location for the Project 2007 Step by Step folder is
\Documents\Microsoft Press.
7. In the File name box, type Wingtip Toys Commercial 1.
8. Click Save to close the Save As dialog box.
Project saves the project plan as Wingtip Toys Commercial 1.
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Tip You can instruct Project to automatically save the active project plan at predefi ned
intervals, such as every 10 minutes. On the Tools menu, click Options. In the Options dialog
box, click the Save tab, select the Save Every check box, and then specify the time interval
you want.