[bmeasmer]

Looking to import data from ms project into word and beable to update date in
word when there is changes in the ms project file.

[Peter Jamieson]

I don't know Project (and cannot remember enough about Project 2003 or
earlier to tell you anything useful at all about those versions, but
since no-one else has responded here,

1. You are much more likely to get a sensible response in a Project group.

2. You may be able to paste a LINK.
a. have a look in Project's Help for the article "Link or embed
Project information into another program"
b. broadly speaking, that technique lets you Select various types of
information from various types of View within Project, then Edit-Copy
in Project and Edit-Paste Special in Word. Then in some cases you will
be able to Paste something (a Project object, text, an image) and in
some cases you may also be able to Paste a Link to the object
c. if you can paste a Link, then the link should be "active" - i.e., a
modification to the data in Project should result in a change to the
Word document if it is already open or when you next open it, assuming
that your links in Word are set to Automatic. Although this is a common
enough process with Word and Excel sheets, I really can't tell you how
well it works with Word and Project.
d. Some simple tests suggest that if you paste Project
Objects/diagrams into Word, they may be inserted as much smaller images
than the ones you see in Project. You may be able to fix such stuff by
formatting the picture.
e. as a general rule, links that insert "objects" and or pictures have
to fit on a single page in Word, so if you have a large list of
information, you will almost certainly need to choose a format such as
text or rich text in the Paste Link options.

3. If you are using Project Server, or your project still gets data from
SQL Server, it may be possible to use Word's Insert-Database to insert
a refreshable table of data from the underlying database used by
Project. I think you used to be able to use an ODBC connection to do
that in version 2003 and earlier, but Project Server 2007 appears much
more oriented towards collaboration via Sharepoint and/or web services.
Further, the "approved" way to do this kind of stuff these days would
avoid use Insert-Database and probably involve development of a .NET
and possibly VSTO solution that used Web services to get data from
Project Server and insert it into Word.

4. You may also be able to use Excel as an intermediate format to help
select/format the data the way you want before it reaches Word. That's
getting so complicated that I wouldn't want to rely on it, but in
essence you copy/paste special from Project to Excel, then use Excel
formulas etc. to grab the data you need, then Copy/Paste Special into
Word. You'd need to have both applications open while working on your
Word document to do that.

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

bmeasmer wrote:
Looking to import data from ms project into word and beable to update date in
word when there is changes in the ms project file.