[Neuby]

In Visio, there is an Org Chart wizard in which you import an Excel Spreadsheet and it creates an Org Chart. As seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMWCBLl7Q4

Does anyone know if this is possible in OmniGraffle?

Please and Thank You!!

[azita_manson@yahoo.com]

If not, is there another way to just type name/title instead of clicking on the boxes?

[whpalmer4]

Use the outlining column view and the keyboard commands to add siblings, aunts, etc. I assume you're using one of the org chart document templates.

To add name + title when typing in a box, type the name followed by command-return and the title.

OmniGraffle is in many ways an excellent piece of software, but its automatic layout engine (Graphviz-based) isn't able to produce a conventional org-chart layout. (It offers orthogonal connectors, but can't allocate space orthogonally, and the results can be quite eccentric).

There are other tools available for OS X which can generate conventional org-charts a bit more easily. Xmind, for example, which has a free version, might be worth looking at, otherwise, perhaps the various SmartArt options in MS Office.

(Orgcharts have now been de-emphasised in the marketing presentation of OmniGraffle).

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