Microsoft Visio Professional 2016 makes it easier for individuals and teams to create and share professional, versatile diagrams that simplify complex information. It includes all of the functionality of Visio Standard 2016 as well as updated shapes, templates, and styles; 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.
The range of programs included within the Microsoft Office suite is very broad, and there we can find tools of all sorts, usually focused on improving our productivity both at home and at work. The use of the vast majority of the applications included in this pack is within anyone’s reach, whether he has basic or advanced knowledge of office tools, but some of them are focused on a more technical kind of user.
Creating diagrams is easier than ever.
That could be the case of Microsoft Visio, a tool included in Office 2016 and specialized in creating flowcharts and vector graphics for the graphical representation of databases, office layouts, program flows, UML, etc. You can create and design diagrams of almost any type, either using the templates you can find online or starting off from scratch:
- Basic diagrams.
- Network diagrams.
- Flowcharts.
- Electric circuits.
- House layouts.
- Office layouts.
- Calendars.
- Organizational charts.
- Timelines.
- Block diagrams.
- Gantt charts.
- Audit diagrams.
A brief history of Visio
Since it’s not a program that the majority of Microsoft Office customers use, many people ask themselves about the history and origin of this software, such as who created it, since when does it exist and how many versions are there. The truth is that despite belonging to the Redmond-based company, but Shapeware Corporation that launched version 1.0 in 1992. Microsoft didn’t purchase the product until 2000, giving it its own name, so versions 1.0 to 5.0 were developed by Shapeware, while versions 2000 to 2016 were launched under Microsoft’s brand.
Features of Visio Professional 2016
- Simplify and communicate information through data diagrams.
- Create professional diagrams with the many creative editing tools it includes.
- Add dynamic visual effects.
- Publish via SharePoint and easily share these diagrams over the web so that anybody, even those without Visio installed, can see them.
- Includes useful templates.
- Link the program with databases to generate diagrams in real time of any factor and create complex images of the whole system.