Re: New organisation-chart-style stencil

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Concerning the shapes:

When I change the sizes in the Organization Chart -> Options menu it applies
them to all the shapes. But I want the executives, managers and "normal"
employees to have a different size :(
Is there any possibilty to do so?

Thanks a lot





"Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote:

> You can go to Format > Define Styles, choose the Connector style and then
> click on the Line button to modify the line formatting.
>
> You can make similar changes to the style that your node shape uses. If you
> derived these from Organization Chart shapes, this would be the Org Normal
> style.
>
> --
> Mark Nelson
> Microsoft Corporation
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "matrix-engineer" <matrixengineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:15A3D618-95A7-4E6A-901B-C79DEE236233@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Thanks for that Mark.
> >
> > Do you also know how I can set the default connector line-style and the
> > default alignment (e.g. Align left for all sub-nodes), for my derived
> > node-shape?
> >
> > "Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote:
> >
> >> Organization Chart shapes (or those that you derive from them) get
> >> resized
> >> automatically when adding them to the page. You can change the default
> >> size
> >> in the Organization Chart > Options menu.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mark Nelson
> >> Microsoft Corporation
> >>
> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights.
> >>
> >> "matrix-engineer" <matrixengineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> >> message news:D340E51A-7C6E-40F6-A5C3-6C15E5FD6B78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >I want to create a new stencil containing shapes that behave like
> >> > organisation chart nodes (i.e. you can drag one onto another to
> >> > automatically
> >> > connect them in a tree), but with different formatting for the node
> >> > (text
> >> > size & style, border, height, etc) and connector (line style, weight,
> >> > etc).
> >> >
> >> > I seem to have got part-way there in that I can create a customised
> >> > shape
> >> > with the correct colour and text formatting, but when I drag my shape
> >> > onto
> >> > a
> >> > diagram it reverts the height to the original organisation chart shape
> >> > height, which is very annoying. I've tried setting the height as
> >> > 'protected'
> >> > but it hasn't helped.
> >> >
> >> > Also, I do not know how I can set the style of the connector that comes
> >> > with
> >> > the node.
> >> >
> >> > Please help!
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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>
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