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Make exporting data easy

Make exporting data easy

- [Bonnie] Hi, I'm Bonnie Biafore with this week's project tip. When you export project data to another program, you have a lot of options for selecting the data to export. If you export frequently, a custom view that displays what you want to export is a great time saver. Let's say you export project cost data for completed tasks at the end of every reporting period, so we're going to create a view with the cost data that you need to export. I'm going to start by right clicking at the top left of the table and choosing the cost table. Now this has some fields that we don't need and doesn't have fields that we do need, so the first thing I'm going to do is click the bottom half of the Gantt chart button on the task tab. And I'm going to choose save view on the menu, and I'm going to call this C_costexport. And I'll click okay. Now I'm going to make the changes for this custom view. I'm going to start by inserting the…

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