Microsoft® Office Project 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Importing Information into Project

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✓	Using graphic objects in a project
✓	Importing tasks from Outlook’s Task List
✓	Importing Excel and Access information into Project
✓	Importing Project Exchange files
✓	Importing text or comma-separated files

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When you import information, you bring information created by another program into a Project file. In addition to importing information from Outlook, Excel, and Access into Project, you can insert drawings and objects into a Project file. In this chapter, we look at how you insert graphic images such as photos, illustrations, and diagrams into various parts of a Project file, and then we cover how to import information from Outlook, Excel, and Access.

Using Graphic Objects in Project

Images can reinforce the information about your project and lend a professional look to your reports. For example, you might want to add your company logo to the header of your schedule. Or, if a particular task involves a schematic or diagram of a product, you might want to place a copy of the diagram in the task notes for reference. You might even consider adding photographs of each resource in his or her resource note to help you get to know all the team members in a large-scale project so that you can address them by name when you see them.

Placing graphics in a schedule makes your file larger. Bigger Project files need more time to calculate.

To insert an object into a header, footer, or legend, choose File ...