What is Visio?

What is Visio?

What is Visio?

With Visio you may draw all kinds of diagrams, whether construction plans, documentation, reports, presentation, audits, etc.

Cristina Cueto

06/10/2022

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Do you often work with diagrams and vector graphics? In that case you may surely be familiar with this tool, but just in case you're not we'll fill you in with everything there is to know about it.

Visio is Microsoft Office suite application used to create flow diagrams, engineering designs, diagrams, organization charts and storey plans that in addition allows to share them with other users.

The tool came to light in 1992 thanks to the Shapeware Corporation company. It quicky became popular and in 1995 the company would name it Visio Corporation. In 2000, Microsoft came into play and got hold of the rights of the application and came to be known as Visio, as well as getting included into the Microsoft Office family. However, Visio is commercialized separately.

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What can you actually do with Visio?

There's a great amount of siituations where this application can be used, particularly in a professional context. With Visio you may crate all kinds of diagrams, whether they are construction plans, documentation, reports, presentations, audits, etc.

  • Visually organize complex ideas.

  • Use hundreds of templates, including flow graphics, timescales, storey plans and many more.

  • Create dynamic diagrams and link them to Excel, Access or SharePoint data.

  • Save diagrams in the Cloud and share them with other users through a browser, or even people who do not have Visio installed.

  • See drawings in mobile devices.

  • Give your diagrams a professional aspect with styles, effects, wallpapers and themes.

License types

Currently Microsoft offers two Visio licenses such as Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2.

Visio Plan 1

  • Easily sharing your work safely as a web-based link, attachment, image or PDF and answer to online comments.

  • Store and share your creations safely with the up-to-2GB of storage included in OneDrive for free.

  • Create diagrams easily through templates.

  • Create block diagrams, flow diagrams, timescales and Specification and Description Language (SDL) diagrams.

Visio Plan 2

  • Share your work easily as a web-based link, an attachment, an image or PDF and answer to online comments.

  • Store and share your work creations safely by means of the 2 GB free storage included in OneDrive.

  • Create diagrams quickly thanks to templates.

  • Create block diagrams, flow diagrams, timescales and Specification and Description Language (SDL) diagrams.

  • Work and keep your desk application permanently updated.

  • Installation in multiple PCs by user.

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