Features:

» Improve Team Productivity:

Personal Gantt Chart
Render Gantt views like those in Microsoft Project to outline each team member's own tasks across multiple projects.
New Task
Team members can create tasks, which a project manager can then approve before adding them to the project plan.
Task Delegation
Once assigned by the project manager, tasks may be delegated from team leaders to team members or from peer to peer. The Delegation feature can also be disabled if desired.
Show Microsoft Outlook Tasks
Team members can display entries from their task list in the Microsoft Outlook® messaging and collaboration client so they can see all their project and nonproject tasks in a single location.
View Nonworking Time
Team members can report nonworking time to the project manager, such as vacation or sick leave, and also report work time that cannot be devoted to the project.
Workgroup
Project managers can assign task responsibilities and track project status across workgroups to keep the project on track.
Auto-Accept Rules
Managers can reduce time spent in administrative activities by establishing rules to automatically accept actual hours, percentage completed, or any information in a custom field.
Status Reports
Create custom report formats and request or receive team member status updates, which Microsoft Project Central automatically rolls into a group report.
Administration Module
Project administrators can gain more control over definitions of nonproject time, views, formatting styles, and security to ensure consistency in management approaches and organization structure.
Timesheet
Team members can see their assignments across projects, enter updates, and easily send them to the project manager.
Actual Hours and Percent Complete Tracking
Team members can track and report actual hours spent on each assigned task, or estimate what percentage of the task is complete when tracking is difficult or deemed unnecessary.
Views
Senior executives, managers, and team members can access different views of projects, such as View Your Portfolio, View Your Project, and View Assignments.
Offline Capabilities
Team members can take their timesheets and status reports offline and continue working on them from any location.

» Increase Data Usefulness:

Grouping
Quickly categorize and view task and resource information in any grouping that is most useful to you.
Outline Codes
Define outline codes instead of having to tie them to the outline structure of a project.
Graphical Indicators
Associate graphical indicators with the data in a custom field, so a particular image can be displayed in place of the actual data to easily spot potential problems.
Fiscal Year in Timescale
Independently set the use of the fiscal year for both major and minor timescales to display data in a specific timescale combination.
Network Diagram
Customize network diagrams with new filtering and layout options, increased formatting features, and enhanced box styles (formerly the PERT Chart).
Rollup Gantt
Display Gantt bars for all subtasks on a single task summary line.
Task Calendars
Create schedules with task-specific calendars that affect only selected tasks.
Materials Resources
Specify consumable resources such as lumber or concrete and assign them to tasks.
Deadline Dates
Remind your team of deadlines and alert them visually if deadlines cannot be met.
Cross-Project Critical Path
Calculate the critical path within individual or across all inserted projects to see a single critical path for the overall master project.
Custom Fields: Value Lists
Define pick-lists to restrict the values that can be entered into a custom field and simplify data entry with just a mouse click.
Custom Fields: Formulas
Add custom formulas for arithmetic calculations, conditional testing, and functions to be applied to custom field data.
OLE DB
Share Microsoft Project 2000 data with other applications and integrate data across the enterprise using OLE DB.
Estimated Durations
Indicate a tentative duration for a given task by simply entering a value for the duration followed by a question mark; then return to the task at a later time to enter a confirmed duration.
Month Duration
Microsoft Project now supports months as a unit of duration.
Contoured Resource Availability
Create plans that incorporate time-phased resource availability information.
Clear Baseline
Clear the baseline or interim plan data for selected tasks or an entire project.
Scaling and Printing
Print documents more efficiently and easily with new and improved printing and scaling options.
Copy Picture
Create higher-quality images with larger allowable sizes and better scaling.
HTML Help
Enables easier interaction between the procedures found in HTML Help, Microsoft's new standard help system, and your work in Microsoft Project 2000.
Adaptive Menus
Just as in Office 2000, only the items that you use most often are prominently featured on the menu.
Templates
Create and access Microsoft Project templates easily.
Variable Row Height
Drag the row line between tasks to set individual rows to the height you want.
In-Cell Editing
View the context of a task while editing it.
Fill Handle
Select the cells you want to populate, and use the Fill Handle feature to easily copy information or repeat patterns in several locations.
AutoSave
Set Microsoft Project 2000 to automatically save work at chosen time intervals to avoid losing valuable data if your computer is inadvertently shut down.
Office Server Extensions Support
Save to a Web server just as easily as you save to network locations.
Single Document Interface
Similar to Office 2000 applications, Microsoft Project 2000 supports the Single Document Interface.
Default Save Path and Format
Specify a default save path and format to save project data where and how you want it.
Accessibility
Get support for third-party accessibility aids through Microsoft Active Accessibility programming interfaces.
Project Open and Save
The Open and Save dialog boxes now feature the same look and functionality as those in Office 2000.
Hyperlinks
Easily link to frequently browsed Web pages or commonly used files with the new Office 2000 Hyperlink dialog box.

» Extend Project Management:

Database Performance
Get improved performance and access to data with changes to the Microsoft Project database.

Resource Pooling
Improve network performance by using a resource pool.
Inserted Projects
If you ever need to move a project, all the links from master projects to subprojects will automatically be maintained.
Install on Demand
Install only the components you need—when you need them.
Roaming User Support
Enhanced portability lets you log on to any computer in a networked environment and maintain personal settings and preferences.
Windows Terminal Server Support
Microsoft Project 2000 can now run on Microsoft Windows® Object Model.