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Level 3
Microsoft
1 day
Microsoft Project Advanced Course
Microsoft Project Advanced at a glance.
- Duration
- 1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm
- Price
- $475 per person, ex GST — purchase orders welcome
- Delivery
- In person, or live online with a facilitator
- Where
- Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney — or online
- Prerequisite
- Project Intermediate
- Class size
- Small — everyone practises out loud more than once
- You take away
- A printed workbook, exercise files, and your own notes
- In-house
- Available for teams of four or more, at your office or ours
What you'll learn.
- Critical path and float
- Resource levelling
- Custom fields, filters and views
- Consolidated plans and reporting to a steering group
Course overview.
Critical path, levelling, custom fields, multi-project plans and reporting to a steering group.
The 1 day works through 12 modules and 107 individual topics, from Custom fields to Microsoft Project VBA. Each module is taught then practised — you do the thing rather than watch it done — on our exercise files, and on your own where you are able to bring them.
Groups are kept small enough that everyone gets hands on the keyboard, and the facilitator is in the room the whole time rather than dropping in. You leave with the workbook, the exercise files and notes in your own words.
Full course outline.
Every module we cover, and the topics inside each one. This is the same outline as the downloadable PDF — expand a module to see what sits under it.
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1Custom fields12 topics
- What custom fields are for
- Setting up a custom field
- Displaying custom fields
- Writing a formula in a custom field
- Changing a formula
- Checking a formula works
- How graphical indicator fields work
- Setting up a graphical indicator field
- Setting up a lookup field
- Defining an outline code mask
- Adding values to a lookup table
- Applying a lookup table
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2WBS codes5 topics
- What WBS codes do
- Setting up WBS codes
- Changing tasks that use custom WBS codes
- Renumbering the codes
- Editing a custom WBS code
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3Custom views6 topics
- Planning the custom view
- Building a custom filter for it
- Building a custom group for it
- Building a custom table for it
- Putting the custom view together
- Deleting the view and its parts
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4Graphical reports11 topics
- What graphical reports show
- How the reports are built
- Producing a report
- Formatting objects in the chart
- Reshaping report data
- Filtering what the report shows
- Copying an existing report
- Building a report from scratch
- Improving how a report looks
- Making a report available to every project
- Deleting reports you no longer need
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5Visual reports9 topics
- What visual reports do
- Visual reports that open in Excel
- Starting a visual report from a template
- Picking the fields to show
- Changing the categories on the X axis
- Filtering the report data
- Formatting the finished report
- Saving the report as a template
- Reusing your own template
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6Project templates11 topics
- What a project template gives you
- Looking through the supplied templates
- Turning a project into a template
- Starting a project from your own template
- Setting the personal templates folder
- Working from the personal template folder
- Editing a template
- What the global template holds
- Organising items in the global template
- Using an item you have just organised
- Taking items out of the global template
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7Microsoft Project files4 topics
- Opening a file from Project 2007
- Shifting a project's start date
- Handling several files at once
- Hiding files you have open
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8Combined and linked projects14 topics
- What linked projects are
- Bringing projects together
- Looking at a combined project
- Printing the combined project
- Setting the start date for the combination
- Editing data in a combined project
- Saving and closing the combination
- Working from the combined file alone
- Working from the subproject files alone
- Adding subprojects
- Cutting subproject links
- Making a subproject read only
- Adding links between tasks
- Setting up a summary milestone
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9Resource sharing12 topics
- How resource sharing works
- Setting up a common resource pool
- Connecting to an external pool
- Connecting a new project file to the pool
- Assigning resources out of the pool
- Day-to-day work with shared resources
- Checking which files carry resource links
- Managing the shared resources
- Opening projects that share resources
- Opening just the resource pool
- Putting together a resource master
- Using a resource master
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10Breaking up large projects8 topics
- Why large projects get split up
- Building the resource file
- Splitting the work into smaller projects
- Connecting subprojects to the resources
- Getting ready for the master project
- Building the downsized master file
- Setting the links between projects
- Finishing the master
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11Sharing data with other applications7 topics
- Sharing project data with other applications
- Copying an image of the Gantt Chart
- Copying data from a table
- Copying into Microsoft Excel
- Linking data to Microsoft Excel
- Exporting a file to Microsoft Excel
- Exporting to Excel with a map
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12Microsoft Project VBA8 topics
- What VBA adds to Microsoft Project
- Turning on the Developer tab
- Capturing a macro with the recorder
- Playing a macro back
- Editing macro code
- Running the edited version
- Making a macro local
- Running the localised macro
Who it is for.
Confident users who now maintain something other people depend on — and want to stop it breaking.
How it runs.
One day, roughly 9am to 4pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. You get a workstation each with the software installed, in a CBD training room in any of the six capitals, or live online on your own computer.
Dates
Upcoming Dates
The next scheduled Microsoft Project Advanced dates, soonest first. If none of these work, tell us the city and we will let you know when the next block is released.
| Level | Date | Location | Delivery | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Advanced | Thu 27 Aug 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Thu 27 Aug 26 | Melbourne | In person | $475 | Sold out |
| Project Advanced | Mon 31 Aug 26 | Adelaide | In person | $475 | Sold out |
| Project Advanced | Mon 31 Aug 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Mon 7 Sep 26 | Brisbane | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Mon 7 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 11 Sep 26 | Perth | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 11 Sep 26 | Remote West | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 11 Sep 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 11 Sep 26 | Melbourne | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 11 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 25 Sep 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 25 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Mon 28 Sep 26 | Melbourne | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Mon 28 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 6 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 6 Oct 26 | Brisbane | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 13 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 13 Oct 26 | Melbourne | In person | $475 | Sold out |
| Project Advanced | Wed 14 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Wed 14 Oct 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 20 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 20 Oct 26 | Brisbane | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Fri 23 Oct 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Wed 28 Oct 26 | Melbourne | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Thu 29 Oct 26 | Perth | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Thu 29 Oct 26 | Remote West | Online | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Mon 9 Nov 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Mon 16 Nov 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Mon 30 Nov 26 | Melbourne | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 8 Dec 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
| Project Advanced | Tue 15 Dec 26 | Sydney | In person | $475 | Book |
By city
Microsoft Project Advanced in your city
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Reviews
What people said about Microsoft Project Advanced
Wizard courses run on the shared Nexacu schedule, so these are reviews of this course from people who sat it. Collected by Nexacu after the course and published as written.
Very clear session. Learnt some new tips and tricks.
Elizabeth
30 October 2025
Jenny was great, clear and concise instructions and very helpful
Sharon
30 October 2025
Magda was excellent and very informative.
Zach
30 October 2025
Jenny was amazing. Very thorough with the course work and made sure I was comprehending the material before moving on. Jenny also went above and beyond what I expected with additional examples when requested.
Elizabeth
11 December 2025
Jack is an excellent trainer - he communicates well and is engaging
Bianca
12 December 2025
Made learning MS Project fun and interesting! I'm sure he'll be missed by both staff and students when he retires
Callum
12 December 2025
Source: nexacu.com.au, read 27 August 2026. How feedback is collected.
Questions
Questions People Ask About This Course
Anything not answered here, call 1300 886 190 and ask a person.
How long is the Microsoft Project Advanced course?
It runs for 1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. Nothing is pre-recorded and there is no platform to log into afterwards.
How much does Microsoft Project Advanced cost?
$475 per person, excluding GST. That covers the course, the workbook and exercise files and the room. If four or more people from one organisation need it, an in-house day usually works out cheaper — tell us the numbers and we will price both.
Do I need any experience before this course?
Yes — this level assumes Project Intermediate, or equivalent experience picked up on the job. If you are not sure, tell us what you already do and we will place you honestly, including telling you to book the level below.
Can I do Microsoft Project Advanced online instead of in a classroom?
Yes. Every date marked “Live online” runs over video with the same facilitator and the same practice, in breakout groups rather than a room. You use the software on your own machine, so you leave with it set up the way you actually work.
Which cities do you run Microsoft Project Advanced in?
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, plus live online. Every venue is a CBD training room with a workstation for each person. If your city and date are not paired on the schedule above, ask — dates are released in blocks.
Which Project level should I book?
Work from what people already do rather than how long they have used it. The full course outline above shows exactly what this course covers, and the Microsoft Project page lists every level in order. Still unsure? Call 1300 886 190 and describe a normal Tuesday.
Whole team on the same level? Run it in-house.
Your files, your templates, your workflow — the same course, taught against your own material.