What You’ll Do

Introduction

The Project Center is a centralized place in Microsoft Entourage 2008 and available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint where you can create, view, and manage Office related projects. For any project, you can add or remove project related items—such as e-mail, contacts, notes, tasks, calendar events, Scrapbook clippings, and documents.

People are the main part of any project. You can associate a contact in your Address Book with a project, so they can be a part of the process. When you create a project, Entourage also creates a new project e-mail folder where you can store and manage messages from project participants. After you create a note, task, or calendar event in Entourage or add a clipping to the Scrapbook, you can add it to a project for tracking and management purposes.

Instead of using the Project Center, you can view and manage it directly from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint by using the Project Palette tab on the Toolbox. From the Project Palette tab, you can quickly add and remove Office documents, open watch folders, enter notes, view or schedule appointments, view or flag tasks, customize and view the project information you want, and go to the Project Center.

Protecting your data is a critical part of any project. If you lose project data, it could cost you extra time and effort to re-create it. To avoid this problem, you can back up—also known as archive—a project to another location for safe keeping. If you’re done with a project, you can also use the back up procedure to clear it from your hard drive.