## Create a Separate Resource Pool

Before you create several projects that will use the same resources, you can save time by creating a project file that contains resource information only. When you create a separate resource pool, you enter resource information once for the entire group of projects that will share those resources. Then, you link each project to the resource pool file.

To create a separate resource pool

1. Open a new project file.
   This file will contain the resource pool.
2. Enter information for each resource that is assigned to the projects that will share the resource pool.
3. Click Save .
4. In the File name box, type a name for the resource pool file.
5. Create the projects that will share the resource pool.
6. Open the projects that will share the resource pool.
7. Switch to one of the open project files.
8. On the Tools menu, point to Resources, and then click Share Resources.
9. Click Use resources, and then click the resource pool file in the From box.
10. To overwrite pool information with resource information from the selected project file (for resources that they have in common), click Sharer takes precedence.
11. Repeat steps 7 through 10 for each project that will share the resource pool.

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