Tell me what you want to do....

Since a little while, Microsoft and other tech companies are trying to make people ask instead of clicking. This is the case for Siri, Cortana, Google! But now, it comes to our tools. Office 2016 suite is now having this great functionality that you can get out of you ribbon : "Tell me what you want to do"

As I am a big fan of using the search button in Windows 10 and typing, I am no more using the old list of programs we used to have since Microsoft UI was born!

In this blog, I just wanted to highlight cool things that you can do without touching your mouse in Project Professional 2016 or Project Pro for Office 365.

Before starting, you have to know that you can activate the search box in typing Alt-Q

as an example, inserting a new task. it is not the best example because you would just have to press the insert button on your keyboard. But anyway, just type Alt-Q , task, ↓, à, Enter. and your task is created. You can also do some other actions on the tasks as proposed. If you choice is not here, refine your request.

Same to set a baseline or act on a baseline : Alt-Q , baseline, ↓,↓,à, Enter. The set baseline menu is showing up

You can also generate reports directly from the Q&A field:

Note that the answers are based on the context you are in. a gantt chart view will not give you the same answers as a Team Planner view

Now, Microsoft just need to integrate it to Cortana and I will more than happy.

Enjoy that feature

Microsoft Project 2016 book available in french!

It is with a great honor that I contributed on the latest edition of the Project 2016 book for the Editions ENI, now available!

This book has multiple authors since it has been started for an earlier version and updated for each new version. I'm proud that the Editions ENI asked for my contribution for the french 2016 edition.

Shout what YOU need. but not too loud!

Hello everyone

Microsoft announced last week the availability of a community site to submit and prioritize ideas for the future of Project and Project Server.
This is a very good news which is using the same crowd-ideation system as Power BI and I really feel that this is beneficial to all the community to contribute to such idea listing and voting.

So please, have a look to:

https://microsoftproject.uservoice.com

While you are on the web site, you can either submit ideas:

Or you can vote for ideas. you have 10 available votes per email address and your vote are released as soon as the idea you voted for is implemented.

It's time to shout your ideas!

Enjoy!

PowerBI Now Available on Windows Phones 10

It is my turn to wish all a joyful 2016.
I've been quite quiet for the past year but one of my 2016 wish is to share my knowledge with you all.
One of my point of interest since I moved from Canada to Australia is the great revolution is pushing in data analytics and more especially Power BI

So let's start now!

Just before NYE, The Power BI team announced Power BI for Windows 10 Mobile devices. I was waiting for a while as I have a Windows phone myself. Unfortunately, it is not working on my Nokia Windows 8 phone :(.

You can find the article here from where I extracted some screenshots
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/12/30/announcing-the-power-bi-app-for-windows-10-mobile.aspx

As of now, Power BI Application is available for 

• Windows 10 PC, Tablet and Phone
• Apple iPhone and iPad
• Android Phone (4.4+) 

  

Enjoy

Project ID available!

Hi and welcome back in the Project world after the holidays! First of all, I wish you all a very good year and to achieve all the success you deserve in your professional and personal life!

Just a quick post for starting the new year about the project ID. This new feature which has been requested for years by customers is finally available. It has been annouced in the Office blog.

This new feature is quite straight forward. You can define a prefix, a postfix for the ID which is related to a specific EPT.

Just a couple of comments:

• You still can manually update the ID by adding it to a PDP. When editing manually the ID through the PDP, there is no validation versus the ID's mask.
• The ID will be applied to newly created projects, not to the ones created before the ID.

Try it and post your feedback here!