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OnePager Pro Creates Project Timelines from Microsoft Project

Using OnePager to create project timelines from Microsoft Project

Project timelines consist of a number of sequential tasks laid out in a straight line across the page. With Microsoft Project, individual tasks are usually depicted in Gantt chart form associated with the order in which they are defined. OnePager can rearrange these tasks to make your Microsoft Project plan easier to understand.

Simple timeline view created in OnePager Pro.

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OnePager Pro can take your existing Microsoft Project plan and construct a simple timeline in seconds. Don't have OnePager Pro yet? You can download a 15-day free trial to see how it works.

  1. Take a sample Microsoft Project file like the one shown below that has its tasks all ordered from start to finish over the lifecycle of this example project:

    Microsoft Project plan before being converted into a OnePager Pro timeline.

    If you have a larger project and only want to include specific tasks in your timeline, you can use a flag field to filter your project before importing it into OnePager, as shown above with Flag20.

  2. Once we have the Microsoft Project plan the way we want it, we can build the timeline in OnePager Pro, which you can launch from the Microsoft Project Add-Ins tab:

    OnePager Pro is timeline software for Microsoft Project.

  3. Choose New from the Start screen, and choose your Microsoft Project plan as the source file for your OnePager Gantt chart. The following wizard will appear:

    OnePager Pro import wizard bringing in data from MS Project.

    Select one of our timeline templates, which will automatically line tasks up left-to-right in sequence.

  4. By clicking on the Create new chart button we get a nice-looking project timeline in a matter of only a few seconds:

    Simple OnePager Pro Gantt chart based on MS Project data.

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Switching from a Project Timeline to a Gantt Chart

Once you've built your chart in OnePager, it's easy to change between a project timeline and a Gantt chart layout.

  1. To change your layout, go to Home > Chart Properties > Rows/Swimlanes. Under Task Layout change the setting from Timeline to Gantt Chart, like this:

    Change from a Microsoft Project Timeline to a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart

    If you want to reduce the space between rows in your chart, you can adjust that under the Page Layout tab.

  2. Click OK, and OnePager will rearrange the tasks from your project into a Gantt chart layout instead of a timeline:

    Gantt chart created from Microsoft Project.

  3. You can edit the Gantt chart or timeline more from here if you want, or you can save it to PowerPoint, PDF, or image formats to easily share with your team.

This article shows you how to take a Microsoft Project plan with a set of consecutive tasks and display them in OnePager Pro as either a project timeline or Gantt chart format.

Using OnePager Pro will allow you to create dynamic, informative project timelines with the click of a button, and it eliminates the need to rebuild your presentation by hand every time your project schedule changes.

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