Creating Workspace with Project

At program start a start dialog appears, providing you with following options for choosing to start the work: create a new document, choose the already existing one or open the most recent document.

Press button Start New Document - the new workspace with a project will be created. The program will open the new document in Gantt Chart view. The floating dialog Project by default is located at the right part of the screen.

Note: as soon as the dialog is floating, it can be moved at any part of the screen. It can also be minimized. If minimized, the dialog is located at the edge of program window. If you can't find this dialog on the screen, look for it in minimized view at the right part of the screen and click on the title to restore the dialog. Read all details about operations with floating dialogs here.

The following information should be specified in dialog : Name, Start Date, Author and Company.

Task: Specify following parameters for the new project:

• Project Name – Picnic
• Start Date – 08/02/2004
• Author – Your name
• Company – Your Company’s name

Name the new workspace "Rest". For this just save the document. Click on the icon with a floppy disc . A standard dialog Save As will appear, denote the document name and press OK.

Task: Create a new workspace "Rest".

We have learnt to create the workspace with one project. But you can work with several projects as well. Later on one more project will be added to our workspace (see Lesson 4), and then we’ll learn how to run many projects simultaneously.