I. Create Project

$1.$ Create a blank project.

$2.$ Open the Project Information dialog box and enter the start date as today$$s date.

$3.$ Enter $$Gwendolyn$$s Gourmet Cookbook$$ as the title by selecting Advanced Properties from the

Project Information section from the Info section of the File tab.

II$.$ Enter Tasks

$4.$ Click VIEW$/$GANTT CHART TOOLS and enter the following tasks:

$$ Acquisition

$$ Receive manuscript

$$ Edit Content

$$ Handoff to Editorial

$$ Editorial

$$ Organize manuscript for copyedit

$$ Copyedit

$$ Incorporate copyedits

$$ Handoff to Production

$$ Design and Production

$$ Design cover

$$ Set pages

$$ Design interior illustrations

$$ Pages Review

$$ Proofread and index

$$ Incorporate first pages review

$$ Send proofed pages to Production

$$ Enter page corrections and index

$$ Color prep and printing

$$ Send to color house

$$ Generate proofs

$$ Print and ship

Type the name of each item into the Task Name column of the Entry table, beginning with the first row.

Note: the underscore represents major tasks in the outline.

$5.$ Save your file by selecting File, Save As$.$ Name your project, YourLastNameCookbook

$6.$ Click Project Summary Task and Summary Tasks from the FORMAT tab under GANTT CHART TOOLS.

Gwendolyn$$s Gourmet Cookbook should appear in Line $0.$

$7.$ This project has five summary tasks: Acquisition, Editorial, Design and Production, Pages Review and

Color prep and printing. Click on Receive manuscript under Acquisition and drag the mouse through the

cells to Handoff to Editorial. Click the Indent task button on the Ribbon under the Schedule group of the

Task tab. Do the same for the tasks under Editorial, Design and Production, Pages Review and Color prep

and printing.

III. Enter Task Durations

$8.$ Enter the following durations for each task:

Children's Gourmet Cookbook Duration

Acquisition

Receive manuscript $0$ days

Edit content $25$ days

Handoff to Editorial $0$ days

Editorial

Organize manuscript for copyedit $5$ days

Copyedit $20$ days

Incorporate copyedit changes $5$ days

Handoff to Production $0$ days

Design and Production

Design cover $5$ days

Set pages $10$ days

Design interior illustrations $15$ days

Pages review

Proofread and index $10$ days

Incorporate $1$st Pages review $5$ days

Send proofed pages to Production $0$ days

Enter page corrections and index $5$ days

Color prep and printing

Send to color house $1$ day

Generate proofs $5$ days

Print and ship $20$ days

The tasks with a duration of $0$ days are milestones.

$9.$ Make all tasks Automatically scheduled tasks by clicking the Task Name column heading then the

Auto Schedule button under the Task tab, Tasks group. If changes are made, you may need to repeat

this step to reset all the automatically scheduled times.

IV$.$ Enter task dependencies

$10.$ Establish the following task dependencies:

Children's Gourmet Cookbook Predecessors

Acquisition

Receive manuscript

Edit content Receive manuscript

Handoff to Editorial Edit Content

Editorial Acquisition

Organize manuscript for copyedit

Copyedit Organize manuscript for copyedit

Incorporate copyedit changes Copyedit

Handoff to Production Incorporate copyedit changes

Design and Production

Design cover

Set pages Design cover

Design interior illustrations

Pages review Design and Production, Editorial

Proofread and index

Incorporate $1$st Pages review Proofread and index

Send proofed pages to Production Incorporate First Pages review

Enter page corrections and index Send proofed pages to Production

Color prep and printing Pages review

Send to color house

Generate proofs Send to color house

Print and ship

Click on the task that will be the predecessor $($Receive manuscript$),$ hold the CTRL key down then click on

the task that it precedes $($Edit content$).$ In the Task tab, click the Link Tasks button under the Schedule

group. If the tasks are one right after another hold the mouse down and drag until all tasks are selection.

Type in the dependency numbers when there are more than one dependency.

$11.$ Several tasks require restrictive dependencies. For example

Task New Restrictive Predecessor

Design and Production Editorial $-$ Start to Start

Design interior illustrations Set pages $-$ Start to Start

Print and ship Generate proofs $-$ finish to start plus $3$ days

Double$-$click the Task Name for the first task, Design and Production, as shown above. Click the

Predecessors tab in the Task Information dialog box. Click in the Task Name column and select Editorial

from the Drop Down list. Click the cell under Type and select Start$-$to$-$Start from the dropdown list. Do

the same for the second task, Design interior illustrations. For the third task, Print and ship, double$-$click

the Task Name, click on the Predecessors tab, click in the Task Name column and select Generate Proofs

from the Drop Down list. Click the cell under Type and select Finish$-$to$-$Start from the dropdown list.

Click the cell under Lag and select $3$ from the