

Bredehoeft formed Microsoft Application Services (MAS) during the birth of the application and the company later entered an OEM agreement with Microsoft Corporation. The idea originated from the vision of Ron Bredehoeft, a former IBM S/E and PC-enthusiast in the early 1980s, to express the recipe and all preparation for a breakfast of eggs Benedictin project management terms. See the section "Bringing Excel Workbook information into Project," earlier in this chapter, for details.'Project' began as an MS-DOS software application originally written in Microsoft C (and some assembly language) for the IBM PC. Choose an existing map or create a new one. Use the Look in list box to navigate to the folder that contains the file that you want to import.Ĥ. Open the Files of type list box, and choose Text (*.txt) or CSV (*.csv).ģ. Choose FileOOpen, or click the Open button on the Standard toolbar.Ģ. If the map that you need doesn't exist, you need to create it.įollow these steps in Project to import the information:ġ. The Import Wizard walks you through the process. You need to save the information that you want to import as either a text file or a CSV file in the native program. If you have a program that can create either a text file or a comma-separated value file, you can import information from that program into Project. Note The currently recommended method of interchanging project data with other products is XML Importing text files Use the Look in list box to navigate to the appropriate file, and click Open. In the Open dialog box, open the Files of type list box and choose MPX.ģ. Follow these steps to import an MPX file:Ģ. Importing an MPX file is similar to opening any project. Some other project management software packages also support the MPX file format, so if you need to import information from another project management software package, you can save it as an MPX file and import it into Project. You can use the MPX file format to import information from older versions of Project into Project 2003. Importing Microsoft Project Exchange files

Microsoft Project Exchange (.MPX) files are of the ASCII, record-based file format.

Text files, a common format, are also called comma-separated value (.CSV) files. If the information that you want to import comes from a program that can produce either text files or Microsoft Project Exchange files, you can import that information.
