Microsoft Office Visio 2007 makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Go from complicated text and tables that are hard to understand to Visio diagrams that communicate information at a glance. Instead of static pictures, create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data, are easy to refresh, and dramatically increase your productivity. Use the wide variety of diagrams in Office Visio 2007 to understand, act on, and share information about organizational systems, resources, and processes throughout your enterprise.

Visualize complex information to better understand it

Office Visio 2007 provides a wide range of templates -business process flowcharts, network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models, and software diagrams - you can use to visualize and streamline business processes, track projects and resources, chart organizations, map networks, diagram building sites, and optimize systems.

More easily visualize processes, systems, and complex information using new or improved features in Office Visio 2007:
 

• Get started quickly with templates. Office Visio 2007 includes specific tools to support the diverse diagramming needs of IT and business professionals. Use the predefined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a computer or on the Web.
• Quickly access templates you use often. In the new Getting Started window, find the template you need by browsing simplified template categories and using large template previews. Locate the templates you used recently by using the new Recent Templates view in the Getting Started window
• Get inspired by sample diagrams. View sample diagrams that are integrated with data to get ideas for creating your own diagrams, to realize how data provides more context for many diagram types, and to determine which template you want to use.
• Connect shapes without drawing connectors. New AutoConnect functionality in Office Visio 2007 connects shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for you - with only one click. When you move the connected shapes, they stay connected and the connectors automatically reroute between the shapes.

Communicate using diagrams that can be shared with a broad audience

Communicate information using Visio diagrams to maximize its impact in ways words and numbers alone can't. Then share your professional-looking Visio diagrams with others, even those who don't have Visio.

Communicate more effectively and in more ways to reach broader audiences by using new and improved features in Office Visio 2007:

Design professional-looking diagrams. The new Theme feature in Office Visio 2007 makes it easy to format the colors and effects (text, line, fill, shadow, and connector formatting) in an entire diagram with a single click. Office Visio 2007 even uses the same color palette as other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs so that you can easily design professional-looking Visio diagrams that match your presentations and documents. Create more dynamic workflows with new 3-D Workflow shapes, which were designed with the new Theme feature in mind.
Reach broader audiences.. Save Visio diagrams in PDF or XPS file format to make them more portable and to reach broader audiences. (You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in.) View Visio diagram attachments from within Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
 

• Share diagrams with others. Save your diagrams as Web pages complete with navigation controls, a shape data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and style sheet options. On intranets and extranets, anyone who's using Visio Viewer with Windows Internet Explorer can view the diagrams from within Internet Explorer.
• Collaborate using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Shared workspace functionality supports collaboration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Visio diagrams saved on a Windows SharePoint Services sites can be opened directly in Office Visio 2007 from the site, and even checked in and out from within Office Visio 2007. When a diagram is opened from a Windows SharePoint Services site, Office Visio 2007 opens a Shared Workspace task pane that contains all of the information in the workspace, including other files, members, tasks, and links.
• Collaborate on the same Visio diagram. With the Track Markup feature, multiple people can collaborate on the same Visio diagram. Generally used for reviewing a diagram and incorporating feedback, Track Markup helps make each reviewer's contributions clear to other reviewers and to the person who eventually incorporates the revisions in the diagram.