Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual

Working with Graphical Reports

Project 2013’s new graphical reports make it easy to show the information you want. Generating a graphical report is easy, whether it’s a built-in report or a custom report you created. If Project doesn’t offer the exact graphical report you want, customizing and building your own reports is as easy as dragging and dropping components and choosing settings for what you want to see and how you want to see it.

This section explains how to generate and customize graphical reports.

Generating Graphical Reports

Generating a graphical report takes just a couple of clicks on the Project ribbon. To generate a report, head to the Report tab’s View Reports section, click the name of the category that contains the report you want, and then choose the report from the drop-down menu, as shown in Figure 16-3.

Figure 16-3. If you run the same reports week after week, you don’t have to remember which category they’re in. In the Report tab’s View Reports section, click Recent, and then choose the report you want from the drop-down menu.

You can print graphical reports and copy parts of them into a Word document, PowerPoint slide, or other file. If you want to print the report, do the following:

1. Choose File→Print.

   The Print screen appears in Backstage view.

2. Select the number of copies you want (next to the Print button) and, in the Settings section, choose the page range to print ...