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Copy/Paste a draft list of tasks from Excel and/or Word into a Project

  • April 19, 2017
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Teams often want to brainstorm and begin to organize a list of tasks in something like Word and/or Excel. To avoid the cumbersome process of "uploading" the list into a project via a clunky kick-starter template, teams would like to easily copy the list of tasks from Word/Excel and paste them into a Project. Other programs they have used in the past have made this a common-practice approach. So, having a fast way to just copy and then paste a raw list of tasks into a project at any time would save time and decrease frustration/complaints.

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    Exp_-_AnnaAs
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    October 30, 2017

    Thank you for the interesting idea. We would love to invest in building this feature but due to other priorities we won’t be able to work on this during upcoming 12 months. Because of that we will mark it Not Planned, but please continue voting for it if that is something that you are interested in.

    Thank you!

    Anna Asatryan,

    Product Manager, Workfront

    jrieth
    jrieth
    New Participant
    September 16, 2017

    Up-voted! This is a subset of a general question that has been asked many, many times over the years, and can probably be found in several versions around the Idea Exchange: when is the Workfront task list UI finally going to support standard Ctrl-ZXCV? We can't even cut-and-paste tasks from one Workfront project to another, let alone from another app. IMHO this simple yet oh-so-frustrating lack leads to a trickle-down roadblock to adoption. ~Jeff

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    Inactive_-_Conn
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    September 15, 2017

    This isn't exactly the same thing... but copy/pasting from EXCEL into updates would be great too.

    Why can't they build off of the "xml"/Microsoft Project upload and be able to upload an excel file? Even if you can't copy/paste direclty into a task, being able to "read" the lines and field match the columns doesn't seem like a stretch if there is something already doing this? Maybe I'm missing something?

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    WayneEl
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    September 15, 2017

    Yes! Who doesn't create task lists in Word/Excel/Notepad? Being able to get them into WF easier would save a LOT of time.

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    bpilarski
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    September 15, 2017

    This would be FANTASTIC and would go a long way toward getting wider adoption of Workfront for us. So often I'm presented with outlines in Word from non-Workfront users that I could so easily turn into a task list if I could import or copy/paste it into my project.

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    DavidCo3
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    September 15, 2017

    Hi - I just had a PM asking me about this again today. I'm amazed that there are not more votes for this idea!

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