Embed or Create Links to Graphics Objects

You can use graphics from Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, and other programs to spiff up your project files. You can add luster to any report you create using Microsoft Project. If you use other programs to create or maintain pictorial information that you want to add to your project plan, you can create a link to that information as an object in a Microsoft Project graphics area.

When you place an object in a graphics area, you can display it either as a picture from the source program or as an icon representing the source program. An icon that represents the source program is like an electronic logo that readily identifies the program. You might choose to display an icon instead of the full object if the object would take up a lot of space on the screen. You can move or size an object in a Gantt Chart, note, header, footer, or legend, but you can’t move or size an object in the Objects box.

To embed or create a link to a graphics object in a graphics area

1. Open the source program and the source file.
2. Select the object.
3. Click Copy (or the source program’s equivalent command).
4. Open the Microsoft Project file in which you want to create the link.
5. Select the graphics area in which you want to create the link.
   • To paste the object into the Gantt Chart view, click Gantt Chart on the View Bar.
   • To paste the object into the Objects box, select the task or resource to which you want to attach the object. On the View Bar, click More Views . In the Views list, click Task Form or Resource Form, and then click Apply. On the Format menu, point to Details, and then click Objects.
6. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
7. To create an embedded object, click Paste.
   To create a linked object, click Paste Link.
8. In the As box, click a format.
9. To display the object as an icon representing the source program, select the Display As Icon check box.

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