Special Edition Using Microsoft® Project 2002

Exchanging Project Data with Other Applications

There are many reasons you might find it useful to be able to share all or part of a Microsoft Project 2002 document with another software application. One common reason is to be able to prepare reports in other applications. Similarly, it is often useful to import data from other applications into Microsoft Project, especially to avoid retyping large amounts of data. The following scenarios illustrate some of the uses for Project’s data-exchange capability:

• You might have a list of tasks or resource names in Excel that you want to use in a Project plan. You might also have a list of tasks in Outlook. It is faster and more accurate to import the data than to type it again in Project.

• You might want ...