Chapter 19: Advanced Custom Reports and Templates

If you are already a skilled user of reporting with Excel and PowerPoint, then you will find Project's report customization features to be a garden of delight. If you are not, then this chapter will get you up and running fast.

In the previous chapter, we only studied the wide variety of prebuilt reports readily available out of the box with Project. Already, I expect you might have played around with the reports a bit, and a lot of questions will have come to your mind. This chapter will seek to answer those questions.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

• Understanding the logic of Project's reporting architecture
• Modifying existing prebuilt reports
• Creating new custom reports
• Saving reports to a global template to enable sharing
• Loading reports from a global template
• Understanding the best practices for global templates