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quick question about copy and paste

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Miles GoodchildMember for 9 years 9 months
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Quick question as I don't have Primavera I can't answer a simple question:  Can you copy and paste a simple table showing the items below out of Primavera and into Excel?

Many thanks

 

A reference (user entered number 1-200)

Name

Start

Finish

Basline Start

Baseline Finish

RAG (user entered - Red, Amber, Green, Complete)

% complete

Status date for the plan

Milestone (is this item a milestone - system generated I assume)

Critical (is this item on the critical path - system generated)

Plan name

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    Robert Bell ·
    #1

    Hi Miles,Yes you can copy and

    Hi Miles,

    Yes you can copy and paste anything like that from P6 into Excel.

    Rob

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    Miles Goodchild ·
    #2

    thanks :)

    thanks :)

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    Mike Testro ·
    #3

    Hi RobertCan you copy - paste

    Hi Robert

    Can you copy - paste it back again?

    Best regards

    Mike Testro

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    Robert Bell ·
    #4

    Hi Mike,Sadly no; the best

    Hi Mike,

    Sadly no; the best you can do is to copy a single value into say, the activity name field. You cannot paste information in a table format. Is is possible in ASTA?

    Rob

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    Zoltan Palffy ·
    #5

    yes set al lthe columsn up as

    yes set al lthe columsn up as you want them then hghlight all of the activites then right click and select export to excel.

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    Robert Bell ·
    #6

    Yes exporting is fine. Sorry,

    Yes exporting is fine. Sorry, I thought Mike was referring purely to copy and paste. I may have been wrong.

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    Mike Testro ·
    #7

    Hi Robert. Yes the columns in

    Hi Robert. Yes the columns in Asta are a spreadsheet fully compatible with Excel or Lotus. It makes data entry a doddle. A full progress update in seconds. 

    Best regards Mike Testro 

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    Robert Bell ·
    #8

    Hi Mike,Wow I can see how

    Hi Mike,

    Wow I can see how that feature would be VERY useful. P6 needs to gain this function!

    Rob

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    Zoltan Palffy ·
    #9

    Robert you can do this in p6

    Robert you can do this in p6 now except for the RAG set up your columns and select all of your activities right click and select export to excel 

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    Robert Bell ·
    #10

    Is Mike not saying that you

    Is Mike not saying that you can copy paste from excel back into Asta? You can't do this in P6.

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    Zoltan Palffy ·
    #11

    I am not sure about ASTA but

    I am not sure about ASTA but you would have to import the excel file into P6

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