Microsoft Office Visio 2007 is the diagramming tool for business and technical professionals who need to quickly and easily visualize, explore, and communicate information. With Visio 2007, creating a wide range of diagrams such as organization charts, timelines, and flowcharts is a snap.
Office Visio 2007 includes everything you need to create professional-looking organization charts. The included shapes and tools such as the Organization Chart wizard help you generate a chart with just a few clicks. You can also easily share your charts with others in your organization in a variety of ways.
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Create professional organization charts
Build great-looking charts
Drag, drop, and rearrange professional-looking shapes, such as Manager, Employee, and Position onto the drawing page and let Office Visio connect the shapes in the hierarchy for you. Utilize color and theme effects, add photos, and apply company logos to make your chart more presentable.Generate charts from existing data
Allow the Organization Chart Wizard to automatically generate charts for you from data in Microsoft Office Excel workbooks, Microsoft Exchange Server directories, Org Plus files, text files, or any ODBC-compliant data source. Create charts of any size
Create your chart on one large page that you can resize as much as you need. Or, divide charts by department and easily keep all sections of the chart synchronized. 
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Track and visualize data in your organization
Include employee information in charts
Add important details like contact, salary, photos, and asset information for each employee in the organization chart.Visually track data in charts
With Office Visio Professional 2007, easily link charts to external data sources by using data links and help people visualize data by using attractive graphics.Version Control
Compare different versions of a chart to better track company, organizational, and departmental changes. Top of Page
Share organization charts with others
Integrate charts into other Microsoft Office applications
Import departmental and organization charts into your Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations and Microsoft Office Word documents. Share chart information as Visio diagrams and image files, or export data from charts as Excel workbooks and text files to make sure everyone has the information they need in the format they need it.Collaborate with colleagues
Use the Track Markup feature to review and track changes and collaborate with multiple people on the same Visio diagram. If you’re using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services with Office Visio, you can easily check charts in and out and share workspace functionality.Convert charts to other formats
Make your charts available to all the people in your organization by saving them as Web pages and posting them to your organization’s intranet. Save Visio diagrams in PDF or XPS file format to make them more portable and to reach additional audiences. You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in. Top of Page
Get started with Visio organization charts
| Help and how-to |
| Create a Visio organization chart |
An organization chart (org chart) is a diagram of a reporting hierarchy that is commonly used to show relationships among employees, titles, and groups. |
| Lay out the shapes in your organization chart |
After you use Microsoft Office Visio to create an organization chart (org chart), there are a number of ways to rearrange the shapes. Space the shapes farther apart, hide subordinate shapes, or change the layout. |
| Show or hide information in a Visio organization chart |
You can click options in the Options dialog box to display or hide the data that is associated with organization chart shapes. |
| Create a synchronized copy of shapes in an organization chart |
You can create synchronized copies of sections of large organization charts (org charts) on different pages to help you organize information. |
| Compare and report changes between versions of an organization chart |
You can compare two different versions of an organization chart, generate reports that compare the versions, and then update the published version to include more recent data. |
| Create a report from organization chart data |
If you added data to organization chart shapes, such as names, titles, and telephone numbers, you can create a report of that data and save it to a file that you can print or distribute to others. |
| Insert an organization chart into a drawing |
You can insert an organization chart into a Microsoft Office Visio drawing that was not created with the Organization Chart template. |
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