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Assigning Project Resources using Task Spreadsheet in Microsoft Project

Now that we have created some resources for our project, we can go back as assign tasks to these resources. There are a number of ways to do this and we'll cover the two most common. In this section we'll discuss using the Task Spreadsheet of the 'Gantt View' of Microsoft Project.

  1. Click on 'Gantt Chart' in the left-hand toolbar.
  2. Select row 3 and tab to the end column marked 'Resources'.
  3. From the drop-down dialog box, select 'Corporate Management'.
  4. Repeat this for all other tasks in the project.
  5. Since these tasks will have more than one resource assigned we'll need to assign the other resources from the 'Task Information' dialog box.

Your project should now look like the following:

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