How To Pool Resources In Microsoft Project

You might be familiar with using resources in Microsoft Project but did you know you can pool one set of resources between several Project plans? This lets you effectively manage resources over several projects and enables you to detect resource conflicts between projects. This article describes the key steps in setting up resource sharing in Microsoft Project. The steps are to first create the resource pool file and then link one or more Project plan files to this Resource Pool. Once linked, each Project file will see only the resources in the resource pool, so resources can then be assigned to several projects from the linked resource pool.

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http://www.microsofttraining.net/article-1351-how-pool-resources-in-microsoft-project.html

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