Building PowerPoint Presentations from MS Project Plans
Learn how to convert a Microsoft Project plan into an easy-to-read timeline that is perfect for PowerPoint presentations.
Effective communication with stakeholders is key to project success. Presenting your project in a clear and succinct manner helps clients and executives see the big picture without getting lost in the detail. OnePager project presentation software from Chronicle Graphics improves project communication by:
- Allowing you to present the correct level of detail to each audience
- Making it easy to understand risks and dependencies
- Enabling comparison of one project to another
- Creating a clear audit trail that helps answer where a project succeeded or failed
Sample Project Plans
OnePager can simplify project communication quickly and easily, using the project data you're already tracking in MS Project or Excel. The following articles are a few ways that project managers and PMOs are using OnePager today:
Showing How Project Plans Change
Quickly illustrate the changes that occur in your project plan from week-to-week or month-to-month using OnePager's snapshot feature that takes versioned histories of your project schedule.
How to Present a Schedule made in Microsoft Project
This article describes how to export your Microsoft Project plan into a PowerPoint-friendly format that is perfect for executive presentations.
Create a view of a Microsoft Project Portfolio or Program
Learn how to create a program or portfolio-level view of multiple Microsoft Project plans.
Export Microsoft Project to PowerPoint
A step-by-step guide on how to export all or part of a Microsoft Project schedule into a PowerPoint format that is ideal for executive presentations.
Creating a Multi-Phase Project Schedule
This article describes how to build a Gantt chart and separate it into multiple phases based on a Microsoft Project outline plan.
Showing Critical Path on a Gantt Chart
Learn how to show the critical path of a project in a summary-level Gantt chart imported from Microsoft Project.
Building Multi-Project Gantt Charts in Excel
See how easy it is to create a multi-project program/portfolio Gantt chart based on Excel data.
Versioning a Microsoft Project Schedule
Learn how to create and track multiple versions of your Microsoft Project schedule to see how your project has changed over time.
Creating Multiple Views of the Same Project Plan
This article explains how OnePager Pro can create different views of the same project, so that each audience can see the tasks and milestones that are most important.
What to Present in a Project Post Mortem
Learn the types of charts that are useful in understanding a project's successes and failures during a post mortem review.
Creating Gantt Chart Roll-Up Views
See how to create a rolled-up Gantt chart that summarizes your entire Microsoft Project schedule.
Showing a Project's History in a Gantt Chart
Learn how to track the history of your project using a series of time-stamped Gantt charts created dynamically based on Microsoft Project data.
Tracking Project Schedule Changes in a Timeline View
See how OnePager can create a series of progressive timelines that track the changes to individual tasks or phases within your Microsoft Project plan.
Sharing Gantt Chart Templates Across the PMO
Learn how to create a Gantt chart template for one or many Microsoft Project plans and share it with other project managers in your PMO.
Project Presentation Software
How to use project presentation software to build a presentation or report from a Microsoft Project plan.
Project Summary Timelines
Follow these simple steps to create a summary timeline of one or many Microsoft Project plans using OnePager Pro.
Building Historical Gantt Charts
Learn how to create a collection of historical Gantt charts from an MS Project plan to keep track of how your schedule and deliverables have changed from week-to-week or month-to-month.
Creating Virtual Summary Tasks from MS Project
See how you can take a cluttered MS Project schedule and collapse it into an easy-to-understand summary using OnePager Pro.
Simplifying Complex Projects
See how easy it is to simplify a complex project into a single-page Gantt chart that is easy to update from week-to-week.
Creating project schedule (Gantt chart) templates
See how easy it is to create templates for Gantt charts, project timelines, and project schedules using OnePager Pro, an add-in for Microsoft Project.
Creating timeline presentations in Excel
Learn how to create a PowerPoint-ready timeline presentation based on an Excel project schedule.
Creating multi-phased project timelines in Excel
See how easy it is to take a multi-phased project plan from Excel and create a PowerPoint-ready timeline.
Showing project health in Excel
Follow this tutorial to create a color-coded health report for your Excel project schedule.
Creating project timelines in Excel
Learn how to create project timelines from an Excel spreadsheet using OnePager Express.
Creating timelines in Oracle Primavera P6
This article describes how to use OnePager Express to build full-color timelines for reporting on projects managed in Oracle Primavera P6.
Excel project plans
Learn how to create a project plan in Excel and then share it with your team in PowerPoint.
Project management dashboards
How to create a dashboard of your project for review by in project meetings
Project Cartoons
How to create a project cartoon from Microsoft Project using OnePager Pro.
Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Project
Learn how to use conditional formatting with a Microsoft Project schedule and OnePager Pro to create colorful, easy-to-read Gantt charts and project schedules.
Showing Deadlines on a Gantt Chart
Learn how to track project deadlines on a Gantt chart or timeline using Microsoft Project and OnePager Pro.
Project Visualization
See how to create professional project visualizations using OnePager Pro for Microsoft Project.
Data Visualization Software for Projects
Data visualization is an important part of managing a project. See how to visualize your project data.
Project Outline Summary Report
How to build a Gantt chart showing different summary levels of your project plan
Project Budget Report
How to build a project budget report that shows cost variance so that it is easy to understand which tasks and milestones are over-budget or under-budget
Multi-Project Report
How to create a multi-project report that combines several Microsoft Plans on a single page
Multi-Phase Project Timeline
How to create a multi-phased project timeline with key phases lined up in a single row from left-to-right
Timelines from Project Server
Create a project timeline directly from Project Server using OnePager Pro.
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