Combined Projects 1

[YANKRAY]

I am using MS Projects 2000.

I have a Master Project with multiple projects inserted into it.

I have to distribute this Master Project but I do not want the users on the distribution to connect in any way to the inserted projects.

How can I save the Master Project and distribute it (it must be distributed as a MS Projects file) as a stand-alone file?

thanks,
Ray

 

[PDQBach]

Start with a clean (empty) project.

View | Gantt
Insert | Project and, in the pop up box, select the project file, clear the box labelled "Link to project" and click on the Insert button. Repeat for each project that you want in the master project file.

This will give you a single project file with all tasks (instead of links to the project files that contain the tasks). If the users make changes to this single project file then the changes will remain local to this single file.

Note that this single file can be potentially quite a large one if there are many sub-projects and each of those sub-projects has a lot of tasks.

 

[YANKRAY]

Just what I needed. Thanks!