Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Inside Out

Exporting Data from Visio to Microsoft Project

Although you’re not likely to transfer data from Visio to Microsoft Project as often, the process is even easier than going from Microsoft Project to Visio. If you build draft schedules in Visio as timelines or Gantt Charts, it’s easy to bring that information into Microsoft Project for further work.

Exporting Timelines from Visio to Microsoft Project

As long as Microsoft Project and Visio are both installed on your computer, you can transfer timeline data from Visio to Microsoft Project or vice versa. For example, consider a simple project you built as a Visio timeline to present at a project selection committee meeting. The project was approved, and now you want to use the Visio timeline to build ...