Project Standard 2024

Keep your projects organized and on track

Get started quickly

Use the Getting Starting screen to walk through basic capabilities. Pre-built templates help you get your project started on the right track.

Schedule efficiently

Familiar automated scheduling tools help you reduce inefficiencies and training time. Multiple timelines make it easier to visualize complex schedules.

Optimize tasks

Visualization tools help you understand how tasks relate to one another. And by running what-if scenarios, you can make the most of your task assignments.

Features

Smart setup

Fast startup

The Getting Started screen walks you through basic capabilities, like linking tasks and creating a timeline, to help you get up to speed fast.

Best-in-class templates

Start your project on the right track, using one of the many pre-built templates available in Project Standard and on Office.com.

Intuitive search

Use the Tell Me search bar—standard across most Office products—to quickly find useful features in Project so you can work more efficiently.

Powerful scheduling

Familiar charts

Project Standard offers familiar tools, like Gantt charts, to help you create schedules with ease and reduce training time.

Smart automation

Reduce inefficiencies with automated features. Auto-populate start and end dates based on dependencies, and find more efficient ways to build the schedule.

Multiple timelines

Built-in multiple timelines let you visually represent complex schedules and understand all aspects of a project. Easily share timelines using familiar Office tools like PowerPoint (Office, including PowerPoint, is sold separately).

Intuitive baselines

You can use baselines to help decision makers track and compare actual progress to the original project plan.

Optimized task management

Visualized relationships

Task path highlighting in Gantt charts helps you understand relationships among tasks and identify which are the most critical to the project’s success.

Connected apps

Simplified sharing

Easily copy project information from Project and paste it into Office applications like PowerPoint and Word (Office, including PowerPoint and Word, are sold separately), and store project artifacts in OneDrive.

Better decision-making

Informative reports

Built-in reports like Burndown and Resource Overview help you gain insights, communicate information to stakeholders, and achieve results.