Tutorial 6: Publishing Charts

OrgPlus enables you to publish your chart to Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, HTML, Adobe PDF, directly to a printer, or to the OrgPlus browser Plug-in. You can also share chart over the Internet using OrgPlus OnDemand. In this tutorial you will learn how to publish to OrgPlus Plug-in and PowerPoint.

Opening Charts

To save time you will open an existing chart.

1. Click the File tab and select Open.

2. Select the file Tutorial6.opx and click Open.

Note: If the My Charts directory is not shown, click on the My Documents icon on the left side of the window and then double click on the My Charts folder.

Publishing to OrgPlus Plug-in

OrgPlus Plug-in is OrgPlus' free chart browser plug-in, which enables anyone with a network or intranet to easily view, search, and print published charts.

3. Click the File tab and select Publish To | OrgPlus Plug-in.

Publish to OrgPlus Plug-In menu

The OrgPlus Plug-in Publishing Wizard opens.

OrgPlus Plug-in Publishing Wizard

In this exercise, the default options are left unchanged. You can try republishing with different options.

4. Click Next on each page of the wizard and then Finish on the last page. The OrgPlus Plug-in file is generated and opened for viewing.

Published org chart

Publishing to PowerPoint

OrgPlus is the only organizational charting program that works seamlessly with Microsoft products such as PowerPoint or Word. Charts can be embedded in Microsoft products and can be edited by double-clicking. They can also be configured to automatically update whenever the underlying chart is updated in OrgPlus.

1. Click the File tab and select Publish To | PowerPoint.

The PowerPoint Publishing Wizard opens.

PowerPoint Publishing Wizard

In this exercise, the default options are left unchanged. You can try republishing with different options.

2. Click Next on each page of the wizard and then Finish on the last page.

Org chart was published to PowerPoint

Congratulations! You have completed Tutorial 6


Return to OrgPlus Tutorials