MS Project is a project management software that provides a lot of facilities for keeping track of all tasks and resources, and for obtaining a lot of views on the managed data. The information included in the project could be formatted by using the well-known MS Office Formatting toolbar, and also could be printed. It is also possible to save an MS Project file as HTML so that you can easily share the information with people who don't have the program.
After this overview on a tool for project management in general, in the following we will consider other tools which are useful for single aspects of project management: customer and project data management and project calculation.
As the MS Office software is a very widely spread and commonly used tool, we will consider the relevant products contained in this package: MS Access for customer and project data management and MS Excel for project calculation.