Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 and Organization Chart

[Frédérick Jacquet]

Hi all,

I have a document created with an Office 2000 PowerPoint. In this document,
there's an Organization Chart. I can open the document with Office 2003
PowerPoint, but when i want to edit thsi organization chart, i got the
message "
The Microsoft Organizational Chart server aplication can't be found. Contact
your system administrator to install this server application.". I found the
KB article, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826835
but after installing MS Chart 2.0 i still get the same error message and
cannot edit my chart.

Any idea ?


Many Thanks in advance for your advices !
Frederick Jacquet

 

[Sonia]

Someone else had the same problem yesterday and John Langhans of Microsoft
provided the following response:

"The MS Organization Chart 2.0 (MSOC2) application is no longer provided
with Office products (beginning with Microsoft Office System 2002) and, if
upgrading from a previous version which included MSOC2, it is removed from
the system because it is "discontinued" technology. Because of this, if you
try to edit an MSOC2 object in Office 2003 you will receive the generic
error that occurs whenever you try to edit/open an OLE object for which no
server application is available. In Office 2002 we attempted to convert
MSOC2 charts to the new Office Diagramming feature for organization charts
but, because of differences in capabilities there were some MSOC2 chart
styles which did not convert well so this conversion is no longer attempted
in Office 2003.

If, in the short term, you are running PowerPoint/Office 2003 and still
need to edit organization charts created using the old MSOC2 tool, you can
download the tool from Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/journ/msoc2.htm

In the long term, you should begin to recreate your charts in either the
new diagramming feature of Microsoft Office System 2003 or, for more
complex charts, look at using the great Organization Chart features
available in Microsoft Visio 2003."