I was disappointed by this book. Simply put I learned virtually nothing. Why? After all, the CD ROM's contents synchoronized with the book 99.9% of the time, and I easily recovered from the few errors there; there was probably only 3 typos in the book. It was written by a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Project Management Professional, so what could go wrong? This book was a recipe book, that's what. It explained virtually nothing. Microsoft Project 2002 is an abstract product. You're using views and tables all the time but the authors didn't explain what those views and tables were, how the the columns related to one another, what the contents of the columns meant, and so on. I was just blindly following instructions. While making mistakes isn't a good idea its one way of learning. By giving you completed files for every chapter, you don't learn, and that's what was wrong with this book. To give you an idea of what I mean, I had to look up how to connect tasks when I finished the book because I entered so few. This book was more like an extended tour of Project 2002 than an in-depth of tutorial. I just feel Microsoft had its hand in the preparation of the book and made sure the outcome was a "safe" treatment of the product. As such, I'm reluctant to buy Project Inside-Out. By the way, this book is about Project Standard, not Project Professional.
