Before information can flow within Microsoft Project, there must be an exchange of information between you and the Microsoft Project interface — what you see on your computer screen. Microsoft Project communicates with you through its interface: all the various charts, graphs, and sheets; the menus and toolbars that appear around the edges; and the dialog boxes that surface from time to time. You, in turn, use the interface to communicate with Microsoft Project.
Let’s take a closer look now behind the interface, at the inner mechanisms that store and act on your data after you enter it. Let’s suppose you have entered a task and assigned someone to work on it. (Don’t worry about how that’s done just now. The specifics on entering tasks and assigning resources are discussed in later chapters.)