Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MPX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MPX to another file type
To convert your MPX file to another format, you need Minitab or other Data software.
Convert a file to MPX
To convert other file formats to the "Project Exchange File" file type, you need software like Minitab or a similar tool.
About MPX files
The .MPX extension represents two distinct file types that often cause confusion: the modern Minitab Project file and the legacy Microsoft Project Exchange file.
Minitab Project (.MPX): This is the standard compressed format for Minitab, containing statistical data, graphs, and session history in a ZIP-compressed package. The primary friction here is the high cost of a Minitab license; without the specific software installed, this data is completely inaccessible to colleagues or clients.
Microsoft Project Exchange (.MPX): This is an obsolete ASCII text-based format designed to transfer project data between early versions of Microsoft Project and third-party tools. Because Microsoft dropped write support for this format years ago, opening these files in modern project management suites often results in formatting errors or lost task dependencies.
Conversion Solutions:
For Data Analysis: Convert Minitab files to XLSX (Excel) or CSV to manipulate raw data in standard spreadsheet software.
For Project Viewing: Convert legacy Project files to PDF for a static, universally viewable Gantt chart.
For Migration: Convert legacy Project files to XML or MPP to import task structures into modern tools like Smartsheet or Asana.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MPX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert MPX file to MPP, PDF, MP4, MPJ, XML, CSV, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, INI or CFG, you can use Minitab or similar software from the "Statistical Analysis & Project Management" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to MPX, try Minitab or another comparable tool in the "Statistical Analysis & Project Management" category.
The MPX Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our MPX converter.