Project Utility Belt (PUB)™ Add-in for Microsoft® Office Project

MEI Company has developed PUB™ as an add-in for Microsoft® Office Project 2003/2007, Standard or Professional. If you’re an MS Project user, you’ll love its powerful, time-saving features, which reduce many of the commonly used actions in Project to a single button click.

The Common Category Filter (CCF) feature greatly simplifies the construction of task filters. It can be tedious to build complex custom filters in Microsoft® Office Project, or use AutoFilter across multiple data columns. For example, creating a filter that handles just two data fields (categories) and two values in each requires three button clicks (Project>Filtered for>New), entering 4 rows of filter settings using proper structure for the and/or condition, and then two more button clicks to accept and apply the filter. Any change to the fields or values requires a repeat of this process. CCF lets you create and execute this same filter with just 6 clicks of your mouse. Open the CCF using the CCF button. Click the two values you want in the first category (data field 1) and the two values you want in the second category (data field 2). Then click the “Apply” option. CCF will automatically create the filter and display the results. Better yet, you can select a new set of values in any combination by simply activating the CCF button. So you can see that CCF allows you to easily construct a filter using up to 12 custom data fields and any number of value combinations. Additionally, you control the list of categories that are displayed at all times. To change the mix of categories and values, just open the CCF menu, click the Modify CCF button, and follow the CCF Setup menu.

The Drill Down button will show all subtasks under one or more selected summary task(s), instead of your entire project. Simply scroll down your schedule and select those summary tasks you wa