Reading a Project .mpp file from Excel

[Mike Witcombe]

Hi,

I have seen a number of messages posted on accessing MS Project from
Excel but they all seem to involve firing up MS Project as an
application.

Does anyone know of a way of access the file without having MS Project
loaded on the PC?

Regards,

Mike Witcombe.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Mike,

Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup

Not possible - you have to purchase Project.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Rod Gill]

You can't read from a .mpp file without having Project installed no your PC.
However, in Project 2002 onwards you can save a project as a .xml file, or
in any version you can save to .mdb or any odbc database. You could then
read data directly from it. See projdb.htm on a Project CD or installed
program folder for full details on the database format.

--
Rod Gill
Project MVP
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[Lars Hammarberg]

Just a thought...
Is a MSProject licence required in order to use the OLEDB provider, you
think?
If not, this could be used - if so, automating Project is probably easiest.

/Lars Hammarberg
www.camako.se