Analyze an MPP File with ChatGPT
Understand your Microsoft Project schedule with the Project Plan 365 ChatGPT Plugin.
Upload your MPP file and ask questions about tasks, milestones, progress, resources, costs, dependencies, and critical paths.
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Turn your project data into answers
Your Microsoft Project MPP file contains information about the schedule, resources, and progress of your project.
Use the Project Plan 365 ChatGPT Plugin to explore that information through a conversation.
Start with a project overview, then ask focused questions about specific tasks, milestones, or assignments. You do not need to convert your MPP file or manually copy its contents into the chat.
The available answers depend on the information recorded in your project.
Understand your project in a few steps
Step 1 — Start a conversation
Connect the Project Plan 365 plugin to your ChatGPT account. If it is already installed, select Try now from its three-dot menu.
Step 2 — Upload and open your MPP file
Attach your Microsoft Project file and ask the plugin to open it.
Step 3 — Ask about your schedule
Request a summary or ask a specific question about tasks, progress, resources, milestones, or costs.
Step 4 — Explore the details
Review the answer and ask follow-up questions in the same conversation.
Explore the information that matters to you
Project dates: Review the project’s scheduled start and finish.
Tasks and phases: Understand how the work is organized.
Milestones: Review key events and their scheduled dates.
Progress: Examine completion information recorded in the file.
Resources and assignments: Find the tasks assigned to a person or resource.
Dependencies: Explore relationships between tasks.
Critical tasks: Review tasks on the project’s critical path.
Costs: Ask about cost information included in the schedule.
Review progress and upcoming work
Ask which milestones are scheduled within a particular period, which tasks remain unfinished, or how progress is distributed across project phases.
For questions about overdue work, specify a reference date and the criteria you want to use. This helps make the analysis clear and relevant to your review.
Example: “Using October 8, 2026 as the reference date, list unfinished tasks whose scheduled finish dates are before that date.”
Ask questions like these
Project overview
“Summarize this project’s main phases, milestones, dates, and progress.”
Resource assignments
“Show the tasks assigned to Anna, including their start dates, finish dates, and progress.”
Critical tasks
“List the critical tasks in this project.”
Milestones
“Show the project milestones and their finish dates.”
Costs
“Summarize the cost information recorded in this project by phase.”
Analyze your project without changing the schedule
Opening the file, requesting summaries, and asking questions do not apply changes to the project.
If your review identifies something you want to update, request an edit separately. The plugin previews proposed changes and applies them after your approval.
Continue working with your project
Open an MPP File with ChatGPT
Open an Existing Microsoft Project File and get a project summary.
Edit an MPP File with ChatGPT
Request schedule changes and review them before approval.
Create an MPP File with ChatGPT
Turn a project description into a structured MPP Plan.
Frequently asked questions
Can I analyze a file created in Microsoft Project?
Yes. Upload the file in MPP format and open it using the Project Plan 365 plugin.
What information can I ask about?
You can ask about project dates, tasks, milestones, progress, dependencies, resources, assignments, costs, and critical paths recorded in the project.
Can I ask follow-up questions?
Yes. Continue in the same conversation to explore specific parts of the schedule.
Can the plugin identify overdue tasks?
You can ask it to review task dates and progress against a reference date. Specify what you mean by overdue, such as unfinished tasks with scheduled finish dates before that date.
Does analyzing the project change it?
No. Analysis requests do not apply schedule changes.
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