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Copying tasks from another program

Copying tasks from another program - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Copying tasks from another program

Many project team members use Outlook and Word. So you probably get task information from them in emails and Word documents. Project and these Office programs play well together, so you can easily copy and paste task information into Project. Well take a look at this task list that's in Word; it's set up so that the summary tasks are out-dented an they are in bold. The work tasks are indented and they are just in regular text. There are couple of milestones that have gray background shading. Well, it's really easy to copy and paste these from Word into Project. To do that just select the tasks and then on the Home tab in the Clipboard section click Copy. Well now these tasks are on the clipboard. So we can switchover to Project and I've got this project that I want to copy these tasks into. I click the first blank task cell. Now on the Task tab, in its Clipboard section, click Paste, and you can see the task just flow into the blank cells in this project. Sure enough the work tasks…

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