{"id":1835,"date":"2019-08-20T00:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softwareforenterprise.us\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2025-07-13T23:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:56:37","slug":"how-to-open-and-view-mpp-file-without-ms-project-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwareforenterprise.us\/hub\/how-to-open-and-view-mpp-file-without-ms-project-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to open .mpp file without MS Project installed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gantter-screenshot\"Recently we’ve been working on a few projects which require us to utilize Microsoft Project to open .mpp file for project planning and scheduling purposes.<\/p>\n

Once the plan(.mpp file) was completed, we then sent it out via email for all project stakeholders to view and comment on.<\/p>\n

Within 10 minutes later, one partner replied to the email saying: Dude, I don’t have MS Project installed on my machine! Any other way for me to view this project plan?<\/p>\n

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From what I know, Microsoft has a Word Viewer, Excel Viewer, Powerpoint Viewer for people to download online for free. But as for MS Project, this is what I found out when I did a search for this phrase “view Microsoft project files online<\/strong>“<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

So it’s confirmed, no viewer program for Project files made available by Microsoft. You’ll need to have at least Microsoft Office Project 2003 installed.<\/p>\n

We’ve spent so much time developing the project plan via MS Project, we can’t afford to redo the whole thing on Excel instead. There must be a solution.<\/p>\n

Use Office Timeline<\/a><\/strong>! Simply import your MS Project file and begin editing.<\/p>\n

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What is Office Timeline? Bring Clarity to Your Projects in Minutes with Office Timeline<\/div><\/div>
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