If you have Microsoft Visio® 2000 or later installed, you can use the Visio WBS Chart COM add-in for Microsoft Project 2002 to create a work breakdown structure (WBS) chart in Microsoft Visio from Microsoft Project data.

Download and install the Visio WBS Chart COM add-in from Downloads on Microsoft Office Online.

After installing the Visio WBS Chart COM add-in, its toolbar is displayed in Microsoft Project. This toolbar is also accessible from the View menu.

Using the Visio WBS Chart Wizard, you can export selected tasks, all tasks, or all tasks in a specific outline level. To create a Visio WBS Chart for a specific task selection, you must first apply a custom view and select the tasks you want to export to Visio.

To create a Microsoft Visio WBS chart for selected tasks

1. On the Visio WBS Chart toolbar, click Visio WBS Chart Wizard, and then click Apply Task Selection View.
2. Click OK.
3. In the Visio WBS Chart Task Selection view, select the tasks you want to include in the chart.
   To select a task, click Yes in the Include in WBS Chart? field of that task.
4. On the Visio WBS Chart toolbar, click Visio WBS Chart Wizard, and then click Launch Wizard.
5. On the first page of the wizard, click Next.
6. To display a second field in Visio shapes, select the 2nd Display Field check box, and then click the field you want in the 2nd Display Field list box.
7. Click Next, and then on the third page of the wizard, click Finish.
8. Click OK to close the wizard.
9. Activate Visio to review the Visio WBS chart you created.

Note  If you end the wizard before it is completed, Microsoft Project displays the Visio WBS Chart Task Selection view. To return to the view that was displayed before you started the wizard, click the View menu, and select the view.

To create a Microsoft Visio WBS chart for all tasks, or for tasks based on an outline level

1. On the Visio WBS Chart toolbar, click Visio WBS Chart Wizard, and then click Launch Wizard.
2. On the first page of the wizard, click Next.
3. To create a Visio WBS Chart for all tasks, click All Tasks.
   To create a Visio WBS Chart for tasks based on an outline level, click All Tasks less than or equal to outline level. Select the outline level you want in the All tasks less than or equal to outline level box.
4. To display a second field in Visio shapes, select the 2nd Display Field check box, and then click the field you want in the 2nd Display Field list box.
5. Click Next, and then on the third page of the wizard, click Finish.
6. Click OK to close the wizard.
7. Activate Visio to review the Visio WBS chart you created.