Project Management Tips: 7 Ways To Create Reports From Microsoft Project

PROJECT MANAGERS: Learn 7 ways to create reports from the information that you already have in your Microsoft Project schedule... which can enable you to systematically generate weekly or monthly project reports using the data in your project schedule, slash your time spent generating project reports by automating the process, and improve the accuracy of your project reports.
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OVERVIEW
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When you don't have a consistent, data-driven process for creating project reports, then you'll typically encounter problems such as:
* Spending several hours every week generating project reports.
* Repeating the same effort to create project reports each week... even if it's the same information each time.
* Creating project reports that have errors because of manual data entry or other human errors.
If you use Microsoft Project to manage your project, then problems like these can be prevented -- or at least greatly reduced -- by utilizing several built-in features of the software to create your weekly or monthly project reports.
To create reports from Microsoft Project, try these 7 techniques:
* Utilize Views
* Utilize the Timeline View
* Copy from Tables
* Save As Excel
* Utilize Visual Reports
* Utilize Dashboard Reports
* Extract data and automate with VBA
If you utilize one or more of these seven techniques in Microsoft Project, then you should be able to:
* Systematically generate weekly or monthly project reports using the data in your project schedule.
* Slash your time spent generating project reports by automating the process.
* Improve the accuracy of your project reports.
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BACKGROUND
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[@goskes]

Hi, very useful video, greetings from Poland. Could you share code of export macro?

[@TonyZink]

Thanks for joining from Poland! Perhaps I will create a video describing how to export from MS Project to Excel using VBA.🙂