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- Create professional diagrams easily with ready-made templates and shapes
- Get started quickly with a familiar Office-like experience
- Use your finger or pen to draw and take notes naturally on touch-enabled devices
- Create database visualizations using built-in database model diagrams
- Collaborate with others by adding and replying to comments directly within Visio
Easily create versatile diagrams, organization charts, maps, workflows, and home or office plans using a rich set of shapes and templates. Add comments and share diagrams with anyone across your organization.
Automatically generate org charts from data sources like Excel, Exchange, or Azure Active Directory.
Change shapes in existing diagrams without losing your layout and shape connections, making it simple to adjust the look of your diagram without losing the work you’ve already done.
Ability to import DWG files, including enhanced file format support.
Choose from dozens of templates, including built-in wireframes, and thousands of customizable shapes to transform numbers, ideas, and other data points into coherent and impactful stories.
Associate comments with specific shapes for clearer stakeholder feedback.
Share your diagrams from secure online repositories, like OneDrive for Business and SharePoint (sold separately).
Visio Professional 2013, Visio Standard 2013, and Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 introduce a new XML-based file format that earlier versions of Visio may be unable to open. Visio Professional 2024 and Visio Standard 2024 keep the XML-based file format. You can save files that were created in newer versions of Visio in the Visio 2003–2010 Drawing (VSD) format, which earlier versions of Visio can open. To do this, on the File menu, choose Save As. Once a location has been selected, change the Save as type to Visio 2003–2010 Drawing.
When you open a file created with an earlier version of Visio in the new Visio, some features will be disabled for compatibility. Converting the file to the new Visio file format will enable all features. To convert a Visio 2003–2010 drawing to the new file format, on the File menu, click Info, and then click Convert.
Visio Plan 2, available as a subscription, includes the same capabilities as Visio Professional 2024. In addition, such cloud-only features as Data Visualizer, Database Reverse Engineering, Improved support for the AutoCAD drawings has been introduced. Visio Plan 2 also allows each user to install Visio on up to five PCs running Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7. It automatically installs the latest updates (both feature and security) for the duration of the subscription.
Visio Plan 1 is best for addressing basic diagramming needs allowing a user to create and share simple diagrams in your favorite browser. Visio Plan 2 is the industry-leading diagramming and visualization solution, offering ready-made professional templates and 250,000 shapes meeting industry standards, including BPMN 2.0, UML 2.5, and IEEE, ability to overlay data on top of diagrams, and all the functionality of Visio Plan 1, including 2 GB of OneDrive diagram storage.
For information on how to license Visio, please visit https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/visio/microsoft-visio-volume-licensing-visio-for-multiple-users?rtc=1.
Both Visio subscription plans are offered as a monthly or annual subscription. See details https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/visio/microsoft-visio-plans-and-pricing-compare-visio-options?rtc=1&activetab=tabs%3aprimaryr1 for plans and pricing. Both plans can be added to Microsoft 365 tenant and account.
To ask questions or provide feedback, please connect with us on the Visio forums https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=507640#_blank, including the Visio Answers forum https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=507640#_blank or the Visio MSDN forum https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=507640#_blank.