Importing Schedules

Background; Versions of Microsoft Project prior to 2003 support input and output using the publicly defined "MPX" file format.

1. To Read an MPX format file into MS-Project, just use File and Open and select 'files of type' and 'MPX'
2. To Save an MS-Project file as MPX format, just use 'Save' and select 'files of type' and 'MPX'

For versions of Microsoft Project 2003 or later, the program, will read in MPX files but will no longer write out MPX files. MS-Project 2003 and later can write 'CSV' format spreadsheet files. To Save a Microsoft Project file in CSV format, use File and Save As and select "CSV" You will be walked through an export wizard. If/When prompted, select;

Use existing Map

1. Default Task Data
2. Select the comma separator (caution - that is not the default)

MinuteManPlus can read and write MPX Files and CSV Files

1. To Write a MinuteManPlus file to MPX format, use File and Export and select "To Microsoft Project MPX"
2. To Read an MPX File into MinuteManPlus, just use File and Open and for "Files of Type" select MPX
3. To Read a spreadsheet file from MS-Project 2003 into MinuteManPlus, just use File and Open and for
   "Files of Type" select "CSV"

Comments

There is not an exact translation of files between MinuteManPlus and Microsoft Project. Here is a partial list of differences known at this time; First, MinuteManPlus will only read-in a subset of all the features that may exist in a Microsoft project file. Task names, dates and durations, resources and links are read in. Other data is not.