Microsoft Project 2013 Professional gives you powerful new ways to effectively manage important projects. Unlock easy collaboration capabilities to quickly start and deliver winning projects while leveraging the power of Office 365 or SharePoint to work from virtually anywhere. Make communication instantaneous through seamless integration of Lync 2013 to call or instant message team members from Project Professional. Extend Project’s functionality with Apps for Office to meet your specific business needs.

*Support for the product will end on April 11, 2023.

Stay organized

Easily plan & manage your projects with intuitive controls and flexible team tools to help your organization deliver the intended business value.

• Quickly focus on what matters, easily select actions to take, and seamlessly browse functions with an enhanced visual experience.
• Tap into the latest Project templates on Office.com from within Project to get started quickly.
• Stay organized by having quick access to recent files and location from the Backstage.

Be efficient and prioritize by aggregating everyday work, project tasks, important details, and timelines in a visually rich and contextual interface.

• Stay in control of your project plans no matter the size.
• Rich, out-of-the-box reporting tools within a familiar Office-like experience help you quickly and easily measure progress and resource allocation.
• With Task Path highlighting in the Gantt chart, you always know how your tasks come together and identify which are most critical to your project’s success.
• Focus on what matters most in a contextual user interface to organize tasks, link tasks, and create timelines.

Manage anywhere with tools to keep you connected with your team and on top of your projects while you’re on the go.

• Share the latest status, conversations, and Project Timeline through a dedicated project site with improved integration between Project and Office 365 (or SharePoint).
• Create your project site with a few simple clicks to quickly share project details with your team, keeping everyone connected and organized.

Deliver Projects Successfully

Deliver effective presentations that offer immediate insight into task planning, resource allocation, cost efficiencies, and the many important details of your projects.

• The Project timeline view helps you visualize your project to deliver stellar presentations to your team, executives, and stakeholders.
• Easily share insights that help you better communicate progress and achieve results.
• Use out-of-the-box reports such as Burndown and Resource Overview, or create your own with a familiar Excel-like experience to quickly measure progress and communicate effectively with your team, executives and stakeholders.
• Easily copy and paste from Project to familiar Office applications like Word and PowerPoint without losing fidelity or the ability to make changes to labels and styles.

Anticipate Change with forward-looking views into the everyday work going into your projects and the resources needed to get that work done.

• Enhanced tools like Team Planner help you see and amend potential problems before they can impact your schedule.
• With Project, you can set tasks to ""Inactive"" and quickly analyze ""what if"" scenarios without recreating your entire project plan.

Explore the Office Store to quickly innovate with flexible options to customize and extend out-of-the-box capabilities.

• The new Office Store proves Apps for Office that extend the functionality of Project to solve unique problems to meet your needs and the needs of your business.
• Find apps at Office.com and choose distribution options or provide access through a corporate app catalog.
• Tap into robust application architecture with a readily available software development kit (SDK) for custom programmability.

Improve everyday collaboration

Work seamlessly across tools to help everyone on your team work together with the information they need to be successful.

• Project works well with Office, Office 365, SharePoint, and Lync to give you a complete collaborative project management system.
• Easily copy project information to Office applications like PowerPoint and email, or save important plans and details to Office 365 and SharePoint.
• Task list synchronization between Project and Office 365 or SharePoint is better than ever and helps you quickly deliver project information to your team and easily receive their changes from virtually anywhere.

Communicate in real time with team members down the hall or across the globe with tools designed to transmit your critical conversations quickly and securely.

• See whether a team member is available to talk or instant message with Lync by glancing at their presence status in your project plan.
• Send instant messages to kick off real-time conversations and shared meeting spaces right from your project with Lync Online integration between Project and Office 365.
• Deliver project information, effectively track status, and receive changes from virtually anywhere by using improved list synchronization between SharePoint and Project.

Project 2013 Top Features

Project Management

Microsoft Project helps you easily plan projects and collaborate with others. Stay organized and keep your projects on track with the only project management system designed to work seamlessly with other Microsoft applications and cloud services.

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• Easily plan and manage your projects using the latest Project templates from Office.com.
• Always know how your tasks come together and identify which tasks are the most critical to your project’s success with new Task Path highlighting in the Gantt Chart.
• Create a project site in Office 365 or SharePoint with a few simple clicks to quickly share project details with your team, keeping everyone connected and organized.
• Use great looking, out-of-the-box reports such as Burndown and Resource Overview, or create your own with a familiar Excel-like experience to quickly measure progress and communicate effectively with your team, executives and stakeholders.
• Anticipate change using enhanced tools like Team Planner to help you see and amend potential problems before they can impact your schedule.
• Take advantage of Apps for Office from the new Office Store to extend the functionality of Project to solve unique problems to meet your needs and the needs of your business.
• Work seamlessly with others to effectively track status and manage changes.
• Quickly deliver project information to your team and easily receive their changes from virtually anywhere with improved task list synchronization between Project and Office 365 or SharePoint.
• Kick off real-time conversations right from your project with Project&#39s new integration with Lync and Lync Online.

Stay organized

Deliver projects successfully

Improve everyday collaboration

Project Portfolio Management

The new Project enables your organization to quickly start projects, prioritize project portfolio investments, and deliver results with the intended business value. It’s the flexible online solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work - delivered through Office 365. The new Project is also available for installation on-premises.

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• Effectively evaluate ideas or measure the strategic contribution of competing requests to determine alignment and streamline project initiation.
• Improve governance and control by creating and managing powerful workflows without coding.
• Avoid costly breakdowns in teamwork - with new ways to collaborate and act quickly.
• Bring together the social experiences of SharePoint with Project, facilitating discussions, information sharing and your team’s ability to get work done.
• Keep your teams up-to-date while they&#39re on the go and from virtually any device.
• See what your teams are doing even when they&#39re managing everyday work or ad hoc projects in SharePoint.
• Sync SharePoint task lists with Project to report on your teams&#39 activities.
• Accurately measure resource utilization and manage allocation better to align with your strategy.

Align vision and effort

Strengthen everyday collaboration

Effectively manage resources

System Requirements

Before you install any Microsoft Office 2013 product, we recommend that you verify that your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements for the product.

Required Processor

• 1 gigahertz (Ghz) or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set

Required Operating System

• Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012

Required Memory

• 1 GB RAM (32 bit); 2 GB RAM (64 bit)

Required Hard Disk Space

• 3.0 GB available

Required Display

• Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX10 graphics card and 1024 x 576 resolution

Required Software

• .NET version 3.5, 4.0, or 4.5

Required Browser

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10; Mozilla Firefox 10.x or a later version; Apple Safari 5; or Google Chrome 17.x

Additional System Requirements

Multi-touch: A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. However, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that new touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8.

Other System Requirements

Some functionality may vary, based on the system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

Note: System requirements are rounded up to the nearest 0.5 GB, to be conservative. For example, if we measure an application’s required hard disk space to be 1.99 GB, we recommend 2.5 GB of disk space. Our hard disk system requirements are intentionally larger than the actual disk space usage of the software.

A graphics processor helps increase the performance of certain features, such as drawing tables in Excel 2013 or transitions, animations, and video integration in PowerPoint 2013. Use of a graphics processor with Office 2013 requires a Microsoft DirectX 10-compliant graphics processor that has 64 MB of video memory.