Is there a PowerPoint presentation add-in for Project 2007?

[alanleecohen]

There is an add-in for Project 2003 that creates a PowerPoint presentation
directly from a project.

Is there a similar add-in for Project 2007?

Thanks,
Al

 

[M. Gawthrop]

Here's what I've found.

Ways that do not work well
1. PowerPoint has a tool in the View, Toolbars, Analysis. This toolbar has
several options for manipulating a Gantt chart into other MS products, but
none captured the entire project. Basically, I found this to import screen
shots. However, you may want to play with it and see if it fits your needs.

2. MS Project has a camera icon which creates a *.gif file – again, it is a
screen shot. But it is a good screen shop, and you can quickly import the gif
into PowerPoint.

What I came up with
This method requires Adobe writer.
1. Format the Gantt chart the way you want it to look in PowerPoint.
1a. If you do not want the right hand timeline, move that off the screen
view. Do this by clicking and dragging the vertical line that separates the
timeline from your left hand columns.
1b. If you want page breaks in certain places, now is the time to set them.
1c. If you typically print in 11 x 17 format, change the page size to 8.5 x
11.
2. Print the MS Project file to Abode PDF.
2a. Check your *.pdf to make sure the columns you want are all on one page.
If not, go back to your MS Project file and adjust the column width as
necessary.
3. In Adobe, go to Document, Extract Pages, Extract pages as separate files,
OK. (Make you set the pages numbers for 1 through the end of your file.)
4. Open PowerPoint. Insert as many new pages as you have extracted pages.
5. For each PowerPoint slide, Insert, Create from file, then browse to your
first extracted page, and click OK. Center, adjust size, and format as
needed.
6. Repeat step five for each page.
7. Save file.

 

[alanleecohen]

M.G. -

The 2003 add-in creates a PowerPoint presentation including Agenda, Next
Steps, a table of deliverables with various fields, etc. In short, something
upper management can visualize without seeing a Gantt chart or Project
reports.

We can use Snag-it to capture screens, but the add-in saves a lot of time.
We were hoping that some enterprising individual/group would have replicated
it for 2007.

Thanks,
Al

 

[gigster99]

Am looking for the same tool. I used the tool to sync Powerpoint 2003 with
Project 2003. Have recently installed Project 2007, but cannot reinstall the
sync tool. Here is the url for the 2003 pair:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...5b-069a-401c-9de1-440546836b85&DisplayLang=en

Anyone know the location for a 2007 Project tool?