Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Working with Multiple-Page Organization Charts

Visio can help you organize the information in an organization chart with many employees. You can create synchronized copies of employee shapes on different pages of a multiple-page diagram. If you imported employee data, the Organization Chart Wizard might have done this for you and even linked the synchronized shapes, as Figure 10-14 shows. For example, you can display the sales manager and other top-level managers on the first page of your diagram, and hide the employees who report directly to them—what Visio calls the subordinate shapes. Then, you can use the Create Synchronized Copies command to copy a manager and his or her subordinates to a new page.

Figure 10-14. The Organization Chart Wizard ...