Copy and paste data from Microsoft Excel into P6 Professional

Before copying data from Excel into P6 Professional, it is important to ensure that the data in Excel and the configuration of P6 Professional are optimal.

In P6 Professional:

If time period labels are showing in P6 Professional, they should be set to the default settings in admin preferences.
Your decimal format must be set to dot and thousands separator to comma in P6.

In Excel:

Ensure that any numeric data does not have thousand separators included.

Open Excel and select and copy the range of cells you want to paste into P6 Professional.
In P6 Professional, select the range into which you want to paste the data, then right click and choose Range Paste.

Notes

You cannot paste data from Excel into grouping bands or read-only cells.
You can also select a single cell in P6 Professional to paste a range of cells copied from Excel. If you choose Range Paste on a single cell in P6 Professional, the data copied from Excel will be pasted into a range beginning at the cell you selected.

Last Published Friday, October 4, 2024