Resources & Blog: Microsoft Project
by Digital Workshop Center | Oct 15, 2018 | Business Applications, Microsoft Project, Project Management
Tags: article, articles, business, business planning, capm, gantt charts, Microsoft Project, pmi, pmp, project, Project Management, tasks
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Don’t Fail: Take a PMI Exam Prep Class at the DWC Project management is a growing and diverse field with many disciplines. In order to be an effective project manager, there are an array of skills that are needed to organize and streamline a project. From initiating, planning, and executing to controlling and closing the work of your team, there are many essentials to meeting goals and achieving success in this capacity. Due to the intense and varied nature of project management, there are a...
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by Digital Workshop Center | Jun 19, 2017 | Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Workshop Blog Posts
Tags: excel, excel microsoft, microsoft office, project, project review, visual basic
Project Description A Colorado utilities company has been managing meeting room requests across multiple campuses on a regular basis. Their method for organizing and working with these requests was a manual, time intensive process with many user errors throughout. Digital Workshop Center (DWC) was hired to create a custom Visual Basic Application (VBA) in Microsoft Excel and connected to Outlook. The goals of the project was to reduce the time of manual entry, to reduce the time needed for...
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by Digital Workshop Center | Feb 20, 2017 | Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project
Tags: article, articles, excel, excel microsoft, microsoft, microsoft office, project review, vba, visual basic
Creating a custom solution for a better Excel workflow Project Description Nate Martinez Industrial Services (NMIS), an industrial construction services company out of Denver, recently reviewed their workflows and found some deficiencies in the ways in which they were using Microsoft Excel to create their submittal forms. Digital Workshop Center stepped in to create a custom Excel and Visual Basic Application (VBA) to help streamline their processes and help save them tremendous amounts of...
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by Digital Workshop Center | Jan 13, 2017 | Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project
Tags: excel, microsoft excel, microsoft office, Microsoft Project, project, Project Management, visual basic
Designed a custom construction project management application Project Description Hensel Phelps, a large construction giant across the US, hired Digital Workshop Center to design a project management application using Microsoft Excel. The project required a high degree of customized Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code, as well as tapping into some of Excel’s advanced reporting, pivot table, and pivot report features. The project’s goal was to allow project managers and...
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by Digital Workshop Center | Aug 19, 2014 | Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Tips & Tricks, Workshop Blog Posts
Tags: article, gantt charts, microsoft, Microsoft Project, Project Management
Construction, health care and engineering are among the common industries that consistently have long-term project plans in place. At Digital Workshop Center, we’re lucky to work with some of the biggest regional names in these industries to help them improve their project management and software skills. One of the major reporting views that long-term projects utilize is called a Gantt chart. As the default chart view in Microsoft Project, and available in other project management...
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by Digital Workshop Center | Aug 5, 2014 | Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Tips & Tricks, Workshop Blog Posts
Tags: article, Business certification, excel, microsoft, office, PowerPoint, project, smartart, word
Business processes, hierarchies and goals can be difficult to effectively communicate. While many applications on the market can help you in the design process, the cost of entry for these can far outweigh the need. For example, you might have a medium to large business hierarchy diagram that is constantly changing. With employees constantly coming and going, you need an easy way be sure that the information in the graphic is kept up to date. If this is a need that your business has, Microsoft...
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