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Article ID: 100647 - Last Review: September 19, 2011 - Revision: 6.0
Pasting Microsoft Project tables into Microsoft Word
This article was previously published under Q100647
When you copy information from a Microsoft Project table (task sheet,
resource sheet, and so on) and paste this information to the
Clipboard, it is formatted in tab-delimited columns.
While you can paste this information into a spreadsheet and have it
appear at regular intervals of one field per cell, it may appear
distorted when you paste it into Microsoft Word.
To achieve regular columns in Microsoft Word, do one of the following:
- Set tabs to accommodate the longest data item in each field.
-or- - Use the table feature in Microsoft Word to paste the information
into a table and format the table with the desired column widths.
NOTE: Linked fields in Microsoft Word cannot be separated over
multiple cells in a table; they are treated as single entities. They
can, however, be aligned with tab stops.
Setting Tabs
To set tabs in Microsoft Word, do the following:
- Select the information pasted into Microsoft Word from Microsoft
Project.
- On the Format menu, click Tabs.
- Set tab stops for each column so that the tab's size is large
enough to accommodate the length of the pasted information.
Note
These tab size values depend on the font that you are using. - Click OK.
The default tab stops have been replaced and the columns are now
evenly spaced.
Inserting Data Into a Table
- Select the information pasted into Microsoft Word from Microsoft
Project.
- On the Table menu, click Convert, and then click Text to Table.
- Under Separate Text At, click Tabs, and then click OK.
The columns are now evenly spaced.
You may need to make a few
modifications to these values until the column widths are wide
enough to accommodate the contents of the cells in the table.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003
- Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003
- Microsoft Project 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 4.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 1.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 3.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 2002
- Microsoft Word 2000
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac
- Microsoft Word X for Mac
- Microsoft Word 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
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