The work area gathers his information to help you view them from a number of different perspectives such as a sheet, a chart, a Gantt chart, or a combination of the three. In Microsoft Project, a project must contain a series of tasks and resources. The work area occupies the largest part of the screen as it contains all the data necessary for your project. Microsoft Project Professional is made up of three key sections: work area, the ribbon, and the backstage. The version is also the first of the Project Professional series to offer multiple timeline display, manager views, resource engagements, and capacity heat maps.

This 2016 edition of Microsoft Project Professional is the last to support Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and is also compatible with Windows 19. It is designed to assist project managers in creating schedules, distributing resources to tasks, managing budgets, analyzing workloads, and evaluating project development. Microsoft Project Professional is a project management software developed and published by Microsoft.