The Microsoft® Organization Chart tool installs a separate application to create and edit organization charts in Office 2003 applications. This tool is primarily for users who need to edit existing organization charts created by Microsoft for Office 2000 or earlier. In those versions, Microsoft Organization Chart was the primary tool for creating organization charts.

In Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003, there is native functionality that replaces Microsoft Organization Chart. For these current versions, it is recommended to create new charts using the native functionality. The user will also be able to create new charts using this tool, although doing so will insert a lower-fidelity OLE object into the document.

 Note    Microsoft will support Office 2003 and the next release's use of the Microsoft Organization Chart 2.0 component. This support includes Office’s ability to edit and save organizational charts using this component that is on parity with Office 2000’s ability to edit and save similar organizational charts using the same component. Support for the Microsoft Organization Chart 2.0 component is limited to the Office 2000 support life cycle policy, as described here: Office 2000 Support Lifecycle Policy.

Toolbox   Microsoft Organization Chart 2.0 (msoc2.exe) is available as a download. You can find this downloadable file on the Office 2003 Resource Kit Downloads page.

Once Microsoft Organization Chart 2.0 is downloaded, you can install Microsoft Organization Chart on your computer by running the Setup program.

Localized versions of Microsoft Organization Chart 2.0 are released in the following languages and can be downloaded from the Office 2003 Resource Kit Localized Downloads page: