Chapter 8. Creating Organization Charts

Organization charts are special layouts available in the Hierarchical category. They offer two main improvements over traditional hierarchical charts:

  • Organization charts can specify that any branch of the chart should be arranged vertically instead of horizontally. This allows a wide organization to fit on the chart. There are three styles of vertical arrangements for a branch.
  • Organization charts offer the assistant shape. An assistant appears between levels of the organization chart.

Image Creating an Organization Chart

Typically, an organization chart starts with a single entry of Level 1 text, representing ...

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