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.

Yes, I have run across this many times. I have worked on many projects where
customers could not get help from the original developer of the application.
I am working on a current project where the developer gave the customer a
..mde file. The customer has several problems with the application and the
developer wants an arm and a leg for the original .mdb file. I am recreating
the entire application for less than half the cost of the original .mdb file
and will give the customer a .mdb file in case he wants to make
modifications any time in the future. All my work carries a sixty day
guarantee for the customer to test drive my work. Within the sixty days, I
fix any problems the customer finds (very rare) and make any modifications
the customer wants.

Steve


"AndrewDB" wrote in message
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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
...
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?
--
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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