Automatically Indent Project Plan from Microsoft Project (MPP) 2007 to Excel (XLS) 2007
Saturday, May 02, 2009
- Download the Excel Template from here.
- Show your desired level of task details in Microsoft Project by clicking "Show" Drop down on Formatting Toolbar
- Make sure you have "Outline Level" Column shown in Micorosft Project. (insert -> Column -> Outline Level)
- Copy whole tasks column from MPP in Cell H2 of Excel
- Copy whole Outline Level column from MPP in Cell I2 of Excel
- You're Done ;). Check Column A
- Hide Column H,I,J & K in excel Sheet
- Configure the Indentation width from Cell K2
- Paste as many additional columns from MPP to Excel as you want (e.g. Duration, Resources etc)
- Copy/paste the indented columns from Excel to Word if you want to use project plan in MS Word
- Indention have been achieved using the formula "=REPT(" ",Identation_Width*I2) & H2" in Column A
- Summary Tasks have been made bold using Conditional formatting formula (I1>I2)on Column A.
Problem:
When you copy Project tasks of a Project Plan from Microsoft Project to Excel, You loose all the beautiful indention. The below images illustrates the problem
Project Plan in MPP:
Same Project Plan when pasted in Excel :
I have created this Excel template where you can paste your MPP tasks and it will automatically be perfectly indented. Here are the solution steps
Indented Plan should look like:
Optionally you can,
How I achieved this:
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28 October 2010 at 00:10
You rock!