Microsoft® Visio®

Microsoft Visio is simple and at the same very poweful aid to draw office floor plans, flow charts, network diagrams, organization charts, design PCB boards, visulize business processes and timelines, manage facilities etc. etc.

Microsoft Visio can help even in event planning. During the Summer 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, more than 2 million meals were served at Stadium Australia. Events ranged from sponsor dinners for 20 to banquets that served thousands at Stadium Australia, Sydney Opera House and other venues. Using traditional hand-drawn floor plans to manage such a huge volume was impossible. To achieve maximum efficiency, event planners chose Visio’s drag-and-drop interface and predefined SmartShapes® symbols to create floor plans and event layout diagrams. The time save with Visio is incredible.

Microsoft Visio has intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Diagrams are easy to create, and the results are as accurate as those produced by more expensive and difficult to use CAD systems. Visio is perfect for those who don’t have drawing experience, all they need to know in order to produce accurate diagrams is how to use a mouse. It usually takes less than an hour for a new user to get up to speed and start producing drawings.

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Visio 2007

Visualize, explore, and communicate complex information, systems, and processes. Get started with Visio. Download it, test it out in your browser. Download right from microsoft.com - Microsoft Visio 2007 (free trial)

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Microsoft Visio Viewer - Microsoft's free Visio Viewer enables almost anyone to view Visio files, drawings and diagrams.

Office Floor Plan - With Visio, an office floor plan is simply a matter of dragging, dropping, and resizing. Draw office floor plans and layouts with Microsoft Visio.

Visio Floor Plan Tutorial - A detailed, in depth tutorial teaches how to draw a floor plan with Visio.

Background and Layer in Visio - Background and layer in Microsoft Visio, that's easy!

Visio Shapes - Two types of Visio shapes.

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