Organization Chart in PowerPoint 1

[stureth]

When I’m trying to make an organization chart, I'm asked to install the server program. That’s going ok. But when trying to make a chart. I got the error box who tells me:
Doesn’t find the server program, source file ore elements ore an unknown error is returned. Install the server program once more. But I got the same error again.
I'm running Office2000 Premium SR-2 and Office 2000.
Could someone out there help me?
Thanks
Regards Sture


Sture Thorgaard
sture@yfk.no

http://sture.yf-kraft.no

 

[DaleWatson123321]

Hi Sture,

I waited for awhile to see if someone could offer a solution. Because no one has, I want to contribute the following suggestion. While it is NOT a DIRECT solution to your specific problem related to the "server program", it still is a solution, and worth considering.

My suggestion is to first recognize that PowerPoint is NOT the "be-all and end-all" of "graphics" software suitable for creation of all types of graphic images.

PowerPoint is primarily a PRESENTATION package, with some graphics ability built in. However is is NOT a "full-fledged" graphics package.

The software package I have used extensively for various graphics images, including Organization Charts, Graphs, and other creative designs, is "CorelDraw" which IS a full-fledged graphics package.

The graphic image created in CorelDraw can, in turn, be embedded fully WITHIN PowerPoint, such that the actual image can be saved within the PowerPoint file, but yet edited in CorelDraw when you double-click on the embedded object.

If you haven't yet experienced CorelDraw, you might initially be a little intimidated by the huge variety of the creative tools, and it will take a little time to get familiar with these tools. However, it will be time well spent.

As for Organization Charts, it is extremely easy to create boxes and insert text, enlarge, reduce or stretch the boxes (one box or all the boxes), easy to move them around, draw lines, arrows, etc. CorelDraw has a "DUPLICATE" tool (Ctrl-D) which easily allows the user to duplicate any object or group of objects. Therefore, once you have your initial box, text and connecting lines set up, you can easily and quickly "duplicate" this to create your entire organization chart in "seconds". You can then go to each of the duplicated boxes and edit the text for each of the employees in the organization.

There are far too many features of CorelDraw to mention them here, but they are indeed PLENTIFUL, and very useful.

I hope I have at least "put the thought in your ear", and that you will check out CorelDraw.

I hope this has been of interest and helpful.

Regards, ...Dale Watson dwatson@bsi.gov.mb.ca

 

[StickMan]

Powerpoint does have flowcharting abilities, simple, but there. It can be found in the drawing toolbar, Draw\Change Autoshape\Flowchart. If I remember correctly, this may not be available because the flowchart utility (i think it might be called MS Org Chart) is not part of the default Office installation. You will probably have to do a CUSTOM reinstall of Office to get the flowchart. This might be the cause of the "server" error...

Also, how did you install Office: to "run from my computer" or "run from the server" (an admin install), "run from Cd" or a mix

mike

 

[Garridon]

Call your help desk or tech equivelant for assistance. It sounds like there's something wrong with the network's installation process--and that's a help desk issue.
Linda Adams (Garridon@aol.com)
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[msal]

I have also encountered this problem. It would appear that the user needs to have read/write permissions to the WinNT folder, as PowerPoint needs to create 2 files in that folder.
From MS Knowledge Base:

"Because the Winnt folder is set to read-only, the administrator must follow these steps to work around this problem:

Put the Msoprefs.232 and Msoclip.232 files on a server that uses NTFS, and assign "Everyone Change" permissions to these two files.(In Windows 2000, assign Read permission, Write permission, but not Delete permission).

NOTE: Make sure to clear the Replace permissions on Subdirectories and Replace the permissions on Existing Files check boxes when you set the permissions for the Msoprefs.232 and Msoclip.232 files. Otherwise, the permissions for these two files reverts back to their original read-only permissions when the user logs off or logs on to the server.

Use Scopy.exe, which is included with the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or 2000 Resource Kit, to copy the Msoprefs.232 and Msoclip.232 files to the Winnt folder, and replace the users' local copies of these files.
NOTE: If you have Microsoft Windows 2000, use Xcopy.exe instead. Windows 2000 includes and installs Xcopy.exe. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base"