Clearly and Simply

Category: Microsoft Project

  • Export Microsoft Project Tasks to Outlook

    Export tasks and milestones from your project plan to Outlook tasks, appointments or notes

    MPP to Outlook Clearly and Simply claims to be a blog on “intelligent data analysis, modeling, simulation and visualization”, and most of the posts are indeed discussing these topics. From time to time, however, I intersperse a post on project management, since project management activities always come along with most of my projects to a greater or lesser extent.

    I suppose this might be the case in your professional life as well. A couple of months ago I published a post on how to export a Gantt chart from Microsoft Project to Microsoft PowerPoint. This post was extremely well received by our readers. Thus, I thought publishing another article on how to export from mpp files to other Microsoft Office applications might do no harm.

    Today’s post provides a very simple tool to export tasks or milestones from your Microsoft Project plan to Outlook, either as a task, an appointment or a note. As always, including the tool for free download.

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  • Gantt Charts are learning to fly

    How to export a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart to PowerPoint

    mpp_to_pptThe recent post Bring your tasks in a row showed a way of how to import a project plan from Microsoft Project into a preformatted Microsoft Excel template with ease. Today we are taking the opposite direction. This post provides a tool to export a project plan from Microsoft Project. This time however the target application is not Microsoft Excel. It is Microsoft PowerPoint. And I am not talking about a simple macro that copies the project plan as a picture and pastes it into a PowerPoint slide. The tool converts an mpp-file into a full editable Gantt chart in Microsoft PowerPoint with one single mouse click. On the fly.

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  • Bring your tasks in a row

    How to import Microsoft Project files into Microsoft Excel

    mpp_to_xls Have you ever managed a larger project with several subprojects, hundreds of tasks and milestones, dozens of members in the project team and even more other staff contributing to the project, spread all over almost every department of the company? If so, you might have used Microsoft Project to plan and monitor the project.

    Since there were so many different people contributing, you may have encountered the following challenge: You had to distribute the actual project plan to all team members at least once a week, but not everyone had Microsoft Project installed on his computer. So you couldn’t simply send the Microsoft Project file.

    Sounds familiar? What do you usually do?

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