Microsoft Project Standard is a project management solution designed to be installed on a desktop. It supports schedule development, budgeting, task management, and reporting. Microsoft Project is designed to help users set realistic goals for project teams and customers by creating schedules, distributing resources, managing budgets, helping users create projects, tracking tasks, and reporting results. In this introduction to Project 2021, we will understand core project functionality and its advantages. The course begins with an introduction to Project 2021 and explains the new features, project plans, and costs. The course advances to getting familiar with Project and Project ribbons and commands, the Quick Access toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, views, and tables. We will advance to set up a project and create, save, open, and close a project, project calendars, and define exceptions. We will create tasks, automatic and manual, milestones, subtasks, and summaries, and use Work Breakdown Structure. We will develop material resources and add to tasks. We will explore tables and project views. We will understand basic reporting, export reports to other formats, and handle project security. Upon completion, we will independently create projects, manage and secure them using Project 2021 and easily create decision-making reports. All resources are available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Project-2021-for-Beginners