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

Chapter 5. Exporting Project Information

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✓	Copying pictures into Office programs
✓	Saving visual reporting information for use in other programs
✓	Exporting Project data to Excel
✓	Exporting Project data to text files

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You can export Project information in a variety of ways so that you can use it in Microsoft Office applications. You also can export some Project information to graphic images that you can use in a graphics program or as an image on a Web page. And you can export information to XML, text (.txt) files, or comma-separated value (.csv) files.

Although you can’t export Project data directly into Word, you can copy images from a Project Schedule into Word, as you see in the next section. You can copy table information from Project to Word using the Windows Copy and Paste commands. When you copy the columns in any table to a Word document, they appear as tab-separated columns. Using Word’s Convert Text to Table feature, you can convert the columns into a Word table.

Copying Pictures into Office Programs

Here’s the situation: You’ve just written a great report in Microsoft Word about your project and you really want to include your Gantt chart in the report. Although you can print the Gantt chart on a separate page and manually insert it in the appropriate place in the report, you’d really rather include it as part of the report file ...