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Importing and exporting

Importing and exporting - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Importing and exporting

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When you import or export data, you can control the data you send between programs, and where it goes in the destination file. Project has wizards for importing and exporting data, so you can follow the wizard's lead to get data where you want it to go. As far as importing from Excel, you see that when we talk about creating a project from an Excel workbook. But importing from other formats is similar. So for example, we can import from a comma delimited file. Before we do that, we have to change one setting in Project, so we can actually open other formats of files. To do that, go to the FILE Tab, and click Options. Then choose Trust Center. On the right-side, click Trust Center Settings. Click the Legacy Formats category. You can see that the option is set 'Do not open/save files with legacy or non-default file formats in Project'. That means you just simply can't open them. So instead, choose the second option, 'Prompt when loading files with legacy or non-default file formats'…

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