Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007 Retail Box

Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007 - Retail Box

Simpler template categories     It is now easier to find the right template, because of straightforward template categories, such as Business, Flowchart, Network, Schedule, and so on.

Large template previews     Large thumbnail previews and useful template descriptions, make identifying the appropriate template for each diagram a dream come true.  

Featured templates     The most popular Visio templates within each category are now displayed at the top of each category view so that you can quickly find them.

Recent templates list     Visio now includes a new shortcut for opening your most-recently used templates, so that you can get to your favorites more quickly.

Sample diagrams (requires Office Visio Standard 2007)     You can now browse new sample diagrams and data sources to get ideas when creating custom data-driven diagrams.

Create professional-looking diagrams easily

The new Themes feature in Office Visio 2007 takes the guesswork out of choosing colors and effects. Now you can give your diagram the professional touch with one click of the mouse.

Theme Colors     Choose from a set of professionally designed, built-in theme colors, or create a custom color scheme, to match your company logo and branding. The theme colors that come with Visio match the theme colors in other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs, such as PowerPoint and Word.

Theme Effects     Make your drawings more visually consistent and appealing by applying a unified set of design elements for fonts, fills, shadows, lines, and connectors.

New templates and shapes     Quickly create a broader range of diagrams by using new templates, such as the PivotDiagram, Value Stream Map, and ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) templates. (All of these require Office Visio Professional 2007.) You can also create more dynamic workflows by using the new Work Flow shapes in the Work Flow Diagram template. The Work Flow shapes have a new isometric 3-D style to make your diagrams look better than ever.

Connect shapes in diagrams by using AutoConnect

The new AutoConnect feature in Office Visio 2007 takes the work out of connecting shapes. This new feature automatically connects, evenly distributes, and accurately aligns shapes for you, and requires only a couple of clicks.

Connect shapes as you drag them onto the drawing page     When you rest the pointer over a shape on the drawing page, you will notice that blue arrows appear around the shape. When you drag another shape onto one of the blue connection arrows, Visio automatically connects the two shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for you.

Connect shapes after you click a shape on a stencil     There is also now an even faster way to connect shapes. Select a shape in the Shapes