Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual

Copying Information

Copying and pasting moves small amounts of data quickly and easily. It’s the way to go when you want to insert a few values from another file, copy a picture into a report, or reference details spelled out in a document. You can copy task data from a Project table and then paste it into Word to create an agenda for a team meeting. Copying numbers from an Excel column into Project table cells works equally well.

Copying Project Data to Other Programs

Copying data from Project tables into another program is blissfully easy; it’s like a simple form of exporting. You select the table cells you want in Project and then paste them into the destination file. Copying and pasting between Project and other Office programs brings formatting along with your data, which makes your job easier. For example, if you copy task data from Project to an Outlook email message to show task status, the tasks appear in the email message in a table with the same indenting, highlighting, grouping, and other formatting as the Project table, as shown in Figure 19-1.

Figure 19-1. Office programs can retain formatting from the source file (Project, say) or apply the formatting present in the destination file (Outlook, in this example).

Here are the steps for copying data from a Project table, using Excel as an example destination program:

1. In Project, display the view and table that contains the fields ...