Transferring from Office 97 to XP

[Guest]

My colleague had Office 97 and created several PowerPoint presentations, most
of them containing Organisation Charts. However, when she tries to edit the
chart, ie. add a new person, remove somebody etc. it won't let her. She gets
a dialog box which says 'The Micrososoft Organization Chart Server cannot be
found. COntact your System Administrator to instal this server application'.

She can change the animation, colour schemes etc. but simply won't let her
edit the Chart itself.

Does anybody have any ideas?? She hads quite a few of these Presentations
and so doesn't particularly want to create them all again.

Any urgent help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Louise

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

My colleague had Office 97 and created several PowerPoint presentations, most
of them containing Organisation Charts. However, when she tries to edit the
chart, ie. add a new person, remove somebody etc. it won't let her. She gets
a dialog box which says 'The Micrososoft Organization Chart Server cannot be
found. COntact your System Administrator to instal this server application'.

This should help; I think the bit you particularly need is in the last couple
of paragraphs.

Can't edit Org Chart, Graph, Excel (error msg: "server application, source file,
or item can't be found")
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00236.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much for this. I didn't realise that certain elements of
PowerPoint 97 and 2003 'worked against each other'.

Is the only way around this is to re-create all the Organisation Charts
again in 2003??

Thanks.

Louise

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks very much for this. I didn't realise that certain elements of
PowerPoint 97 and 2003 'worked against each other'.

Is the only way around this is to re-create all the Organisation Charts
again in 2003??

I'd re-read the last few paragraphs in that link. It explains how you can download
software that'll let you edit Org charts as though you were still using the older
version of PPT.

 

[Guest]

Excellent! I must have mis-read it. Works a treat. Thanks very much.

Louise