How do we get the Visio org charts into PowerPoint?

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FlorenceB

We currently produce org chart every month and output to html. What can we do
to allow users to cut and paste into Powerpoint?
 
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Paul Herber

We currently produce org chart every month and output to html. What can we do
to allow users to cut and paste into Powerpoint?

Save the chart as GIF and import that into PP. I think David Parker
has an export to PP utility but I can't find it at the moment.
 
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David Parker

I do, and I am currently upgrading to Visio 2007 / .Net 3.5...
Old one still works, if someone wants to try it...
 
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Steve

Not to be flippant, but that's exactly what you do - cut and paste. In
Visio, CNTL-A (Select All), CNTL-C (Copy). ALT-TAB to switch to PowerPoint
and CNTL-V (Paste).

Unfortunately, you have to do these one page at a time. This is OK for one
or two slides, but if you have 50, it's a real pain. In that case, do the
Save As Web thing in Visio, selecting your preferred graphics format.
Wherever you save the web page, Visio will create a subdirectory of the same
name with pictures of all of the slides. On the down side, the images will
have generic names like jpg_1.jpg., so you get to sort them out in
PowerPoint.

I haven't seen David's utility yet, but assume that this would handle
multiple pages and hopefully be even easier than what I just described.

A more generic approach that works for any Windows application is SnagIt, a
screen capture utility. You can set it up to capture a region, window, or
scrolling window and export it directly to the currently open PowerPoint
presentation. Press PrtScn -> Select the area -> Click Done. The image is in
PowerPoint, and SnagIt closes itself. This also has the advantage of
working with any version of the application being captured.

HTH

Steve
 

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