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Visio Standard 2021

Microsoft Corporation

  • 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

£339.99

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Overview Requirements

Turn complex ideas into clear visuals

Easily create versatile diagrams, organisation 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 organisation.

Get started quickly with ready-made templates and thousands of customisable shapes

Collaborate with others and share diagrams seamlessly

Familiar Office interface that helps you build diagrams more efficiently

Create and share professional diagrams

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Templates, diagrams and shapes to choose from in Visio.

Versatile templates and thousands of shapes

Choose from dozens of templates, including built-in wireframes and thousands of customisable shapes to transform numbers, ideas and other data points into coherent and impactful stories.

A Visio diagram of an office floor plan with comments added.

In-app commenting

Associate comments with specific shapes for clearer stakeholder feedback.

A Visio flowchart of a loan approval process connected to external data.

Simple, secure sharing

Share your diagrams from secure online repositories, like OneDrive for Business and SharePoint (sold separately).

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Additional benefits

Data-driven diagramming

Automatically generate organisation charts from data sources like Excel, Exchange or Azure Active Directory.

Flexible editing

Change shapes in existing diagrams without losing your layout and shape connections, making it simple to adjust the look of our diagram without losing the work you’ve already done.

AutoCAD support

Ability to import DWG files, including enhanced file format support.

Top questions

  • 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 2016 and Visio Standard 2016 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 2021. In addition, such cloud-only features as Data Visualiser, 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 a favourite browser. Visio Plan 2 is the industry-leading diagramming and visualisation 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 our licensing page.

  • Both Visio subscription plans are offered as a monthly or annual subscription. See details 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, including the Visio Answers forum or the Visio MSDN forum.

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