Hi John

Thanks for you response and suggestion. I will look into the commercially
available ones. Was just hoping somebody would have used this before and
could point me in the right direction without me having to download and run
each in an effort to find the correct one.

As for Steve - you get them everywhere . Beggars on street corner hoping for
a bit of food. I have been developing software applications since 1987 (good
old DBase days!) and have come across many people like Steve. But to
generalise these are the types that create the bad image in the industry.
They develop applications that leave the client with no aftersales support
and nowhere to turn to correct bad programming except to have to do the whole
application over.

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Kepior Senso Fumor


"John... Visio MVP" wrote:

"AndrewDB" wrote in message
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Hi All

Anybody know of software that will use Access Database as data source that
will show an organizational hierachy similar to that shown in Word 2007
SmartArt?
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Kepior Senso Fumor


As to actually answering your question, most of the software packages that
create org charts do support importing information from Access, Excel or
other data source. For some reason, my personal favourite is Visio.

SmartArt is a superset of the standard MSO shapes and it is possible to
automate the creation of an orgchart, but a more practical solution is to
use one of the commercially available programs.

John... Visio MVP

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