S Becker — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:37:20 GMT

Hi there. I’ve read through the whole page, and I’ve come to the decision that using the Org Chart Wizard is the fastest/easiest option for what I need to do.

So far I’ve learned that you can insert an Excel spreadsheet into a Visio doc as a table, and link it so that every time you open the Visio doc it checks for any updates to the Excel file and inserts an up-to-date table in the Visio file. However I have been asked to make an organizational chart in Visio and tie it to data stored in an Excel file. Is there any way to link the data in organizational boxes to automatically update from an Excel spreadsheet? (Example: if someone’s phone extension changes we can change it in the Excel and it will update in the Org Chart automatically)

If anyone reading this knows how to do this, please contact me or post a comment here. I’m going to keep researching, but I will check back here.

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