MS Project to PowerPoint

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Art Grix

I would like to place a gantt chart from MS Project 2000
into PowerPoint 2002. I know I can do a screen copy and
paste but that just isn't as nice as creating a .jpeg or
a .png file or some other method. I've been through the
MS Project help file but there just doesn't seem to be a
clean way of doing this (Project's HTML technique is not
user friendly nor does it provide the bar chart).
Has anyone come up with a solution.

Art Grix
 
Insert ->Object
Select either Create New or Create from File
*If you select Create from File, browse to your Project file and Gantt
Chart, then put it into PowerPoint
*Alternatively, you can select Create New and then create new Gantt Chart
within PowerPoint

Regards,

Karl
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You can also do screen shots and save them to PNG, JPG, etc. by pasting them
into an image editor ( Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc.) and save them as
image files. Also SnapIt and HyperSnap are inexpensive utilities that allow
you to do still captures of anything on your screen.
 
For some reason, I'm thinking that Project allows you to export a
chart/timeline as a WMF. Let me look tomorrow when I'm at a computer
where Project is installed.
 
Ok, double-checked this at the office.

From the Project Help files:
Copy a Microsoft Project picture into another program or a web page
You can copy information as a static picture from any active
Microsoft Project view and paste it into any program capable
of displaying graphics information as images. You can also
save the picture in a Web-compatible file format. You can
copy a picture of the entire view or select and copy a
portion of any view except the Relationship Diagram, Task
Form, and Resource Form views.

To copy all visible portions of your plan, click Copy Picture .
To copy only a portion of your plan, select the information
you want to copy, and then click Copy Picture .

Specify how you want the image rendered:
To copy the information as displayed on a screen with all
formatting intact, click For screen.

To copy the information as it would be printed, click For printer.

To copy the information as a GIF image file, for use in a Web
page and in other programs, click To GIF image file, and then
specify the path and file name.
To copy information for a range of dates other than those
currently displayed in the timescale, under Timescale, type
or select a starting and ending date in the From and To boxes.

Click OK.

If you clicked For screen or For printer, switch to the
program into which you want to paste the Microsoft Project
information, and then paste the picture using the program's
Paste command.
Notes

If your picture exceeds 22 inches by 22 inches (56
centimeters by 56 centimeters), you will be prompted with
options to adjust the size before displaying it in another
program. The maximum internal limit for a picture is 340
inches wide (864 centimeters) by 1000 tasks long.
If you have selected To GIF image file, and if your picture
exceeds 100 inches by 100 inches (254 centimeters by 254
centimeters), you will be prompted with options to reduce the size.
Click to expand...

Basically, use the camera icon to take a picture (while you're viewing
the gantt chart), then specify how you want the picture saved. Import
that into PPT using Insert/Picture/From File.
 
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