Microsoft Office Visio Professional is an office tool which is specialised on making diagrams easily for your projects.

If you are used to download the tools included in it, this free trial of the ms software won’t be a problem. But just in case the Help section will be very useful for you since it includes complete information about the program. Besides, the first time you open it you’ll find a fine tutorial.

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Microsoft Office Visio Professional offers powerful solutions for diagrams. Use it for your own personal projects or for professional reasons, it will be useful for explaining your thoughts and ideas.

This Office utility offers a wide range of templates for you

If you don’t know how you should start a diagram, it offers different templates which would serve as a guideline. Then it is all yours, feel free to display your own ideas into your scheme.

The vector drawing allows you to keep an accurate sketch on your sections. It includes a feature which you can drag & drop each component to organise it the way you need tidily.

Interface and tools

The interface is very similar to other MS software, something that is not strange for usual computer users. In case you are new to this kind of programs, the visual style hides nothing, making it very intuitive in order to keep increase the program’s performance.

This software checks your diagrams to correct some possible mistakes on your projects. This Diagram Check is very useful in case there would be discordances on your drawings.

You can include hyperlinks to your flowcharts to make them more interactive with external information. Select the way you route the main ideas and add macros or include your own projects made on Microsoft Visual Basic Express.

Alternatives

There are more basic alternatives like Gantt Chart that possesses the same finalities as this software. It is similar on its functions but not in its functionality, which makes Microsoft’s one more complete.

Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2013 Features

These are the unique features of this diagramming tool:

• Access faster to most used tools
• Updated shapes and themes
• Improved standards support (Unified Modeling Language 2.4)
• SharePoint 2010 and 2013 support
• Improved performance for touchscreen devices, something that, for example, Microsoft Office 2010 Suite did not include
• Linking options to dynamic data
• Improved teamwork: users from the same company have the possibility of adding comments at the same time in the same flowchart
• Office 365 or SharePoint support to share your projects to others even if they don’t have the program installed

For further information, visit the developer's site .

Conclusion

It is a diagram designer powered by CAD features and full of useful tools to make your flowcharts more attractive for your audience.

Some functions are restricted.

• Variety of uses
• Macros integration
• Complete chart edition

• Sometimes it is tricky to use

Visio Professional 2013, from Microsoft, is used to create and share professional, versatile diagrams that simplify complex information. It includes all of the functionality of Visio Standard 2013 as well as updated shapes, templates, and styles. It enhanced support for team collaboration, including the ability for several people to work on a single diagram at the same time, and the ability to link diagrams to data.

Visio Professional 2013 also adds additional stencils for business and engineering diagrams, process diagrams (including Business Process Model and Notation, maps and floor plans, network diagrams, and software and database diagrams. With Visio, you can quickly capture a flowchart that you brainstormed on a whiteboard, map an IT network, build an organizational chart, document a business process, or draw a floor plan.

Visio 2013 provides new features designed to help you create diagrams more intuitively—including new and updated shapes and stencils, improved effects and themes, and a coauthoring feature that makes teamwork easier. You can also make your diagrams more dynamic by linking shapes to real-time data and then share them with others through a browser using Visio Services in SharePoint, even if they don’t have Visio installed.

Available Language support includes the following languages: Arabic, English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.