The order of Hebrew words in your organization chart is reversed, after you use the organization chart wizard template to import data from Excel in Visio 2003 (829620)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
  • Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Office Visio 2003, when you use the Organization Chart Wizard template to create an organization chart from data that is stored in a Microsoft Excel workbook, you may find that the order of Hebrew words in your organization chart are displayed in an incorrect order. For example, the order of the first and last names of people in your organization chart are reversed. That is, if first names of people are listed before last names in the Excel workbook, the last names of people come before first names in your organization chart.

CAUSE

This problem may occur if both of the following conditions are true:
  • The Excel workbook that you use as your data source contains a Hebrew list.
  • The input language of your computer is set to English.
Visio 2003 uses the input language to set the language ID. If the language ID is set to English, the order of Hebrew words in the organization chart that you create by using the Organization Chart Wizard is reversed.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, set the input language of your computer to Hebrew. To do so, follow these steps.

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.
  1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
  2. Click Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options, and then click Regional and Language Options.
  3. Do one of the following, as appropriate to your situation:
    • If the language files for complex script and right-to-left languages are not installed on your computer, install them. To do so, follow these steps:
      1. Click the Languages tab, and then under Supplemental language support, click Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai).
      2. When you are prompted to install the language files, click OK, and then click OK.
    • If the language files for complex script and right-to-left languages are already installed on your computer, go to step 4.
  4. Click the Languages tab, and then under Text services and input languages, click Details.
  5. Under Installed services, click Add.
  6. In the Add Input language dialog box, in the Input language box, click Hebrew.
  7. Under Default input language, click Hebrew, click OK, and then click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about organization charts, see Visio Help. To do so, on the Help menu, click Microsoft Office Visio Help, type organization chart in the Search for box, and then press ENTER to view the topics that are returned.

For more information about Visio 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:1/12/2006
Keywords:kbpending kbBug KB829620 kbAudEndUser kbAudITPRO
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