Organization Charts-Office 2003

[UEUC2]

In the Office 2000, you could display subordinates without a box...just the
text. (The boxes take up too much room when you have many subordinates) You
selected this through the style menu. How do you do this in Office 2003?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Starting with MS Office XP the older Org chart applet
(licensed for Office 94/Word 6) was retired in favor
of the MS Office diagramming tool. The older tool
is available as a download if you prefer it.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402441033.aspx

It also has a 'big brother' (more fully featured and
updated) version available at http://orgplus.com

In the diagramming tool you can use the 'Autoformat'
button on the Org Chart toolbar to select one of the
predefined template looks or use Format=>Borders and
shadings on each box to remove the lines (the text is
still laid out in a text box autoshape.
Disabling Layout=>Autolayout from the Org chart tool
bar will let you resize items manually.

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In the Office 2000, you could display subordinates without a box...just the
text. (The boxes take up too much room when you have many subordinates) You
selected this through the style menu. How do you do this in Office 2003? >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[UEUC2]

We are not going to go back to the old version for org charts. I was hoping
there was an easier way to do this in the new program. We don't display all
subordinates without the box, just some...so autoformat won't work. I guess
we will have to remove the lines and shading, and resize each box manually.

Thanks for the help! Happy Holidays!

 

[Dan]

Bob,

Below you note that MS Org Chart was retired in favor of MS Office
Diagramming tool. Is this diagramming tool a stand alone applet? Where can
I get information on this tool? Specifically, I am interested in the API for
it to allow a custom business application to generate organization chart
documents.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dan,

The MS Office Diagramming tool is built into
Office XP and Office 2003 and it's somewhat
limited in its capability.
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC061832591033

You may want to check on http://msdn.microsoft.com/office
for information on the API and automation as well as with the folks
in the Office developer's newsgroup.

MS Office Visio (http://office.microsoft.com/visio and
http://microsoft.com/office/prodinfo/visio )
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH010191941033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011406321033.aspx
has a much more robust capability for creating Orgcharts
from data files as does http://orgplus.com

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Bob,

Below you note that MS Org Chart was retired in favor of MS Office
Diagramming tool. Is this diagramming tool a stand alone applet? Where can
I get information on this tool? Specifically, I am interested in the API for
it to allow a custom business application to generate organization chart
documents.

Thanks,
Dan >>
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LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8

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