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Today, we’re excited to announce Data Visualizer, a new Visio feature that automatically converts process map data in Excel into data-driven Visio diagrams. This update, which is available to Visio Pro for Office 365 users, helps reduce manual steps while giving business analysts even more ways to create process diagrams in Visio.
Automatically create process diagrams from Excel data
Diagrams don’t always start in Visio. They often begin as hand-drawn sketches or—in today’s data-driven age—in Excel. Using Data Visualizer, business analysts can represent process steps and associated metadata in a structured Excel table and quickly convert that information into a visualized Visio diagram. You can do this by either using a premade Excel template or an existing spreadsheet of your own design. The premade templates—there’s one for basic and one for cross-functional flowcharts—provide a sample mapping table to populate with diagram metadata. The table includes predefined columns for process step number, description, dependencies, owner, function, phase and more. You can also customize the table with your own columns to meet specific business requirements.
Once the table is populated, Visio’s wizard helps you complete the remaining steps to transform your Excel data into a Visio process diagram. If you customize the premade template or create one of your own, the wizard helps you map certain flowchart parts, like swim lanes and connectors. The resulting diagram is linked to the Excel table, so if the underlying process data is modified, the diagram updates accordingly. Likewise, shape modifications in Visio are preserved if the Excel data changes.
Additionally, analysts can save their Visio diagrams and the underlying Excel mapping table as a single package using the “Export as a Template Package” feature. These packages can be shared and reused by others, eliminating the need to recreate the same diagram from scratch while encouraging process consistency across the organization.
No matter your preference—whether creating diagrams from a template or your own spreadsheet—the underlying Excel data travels with the related Visio Pro for Office 365 file, helping ensure your team always has the latest diagram version.
Start a free trial of Visio Pro for Office 365 to try Data Visualizer today, and visit our support page for step-by-step instructions to create your first process diagram from Excel data.
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—The Visio team
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In Microsoft Visio 2010, users show progression between topics in diagrams and flow charts by adding connector lines between shapes. Arrowheads on these lines show the direction of the flow of ideas. Visio provides you with automatic and manual methods for drawing connector lines. You can also change the size and shape of the arrowheads. Wherever you need an arrow to connect shapes in your project, you can draw arrows on a page within seconds.
Draw Connector Line and Arrow
1.Click and drag a shape from the left sidebar to the diagram area. Release the mouse button to drop the shape onto your work page.
2.Click another shape and drag it to the work area so that it is aligned above the first shape. Don't release the mouse button. The border of the first shape will change. Blue boxes appear on the sides and corners of the shape with navigational arrows pointing away from each side.
3.Drag the second shape to the area where you want it on the diagram and then release your mouse button to drop the shape on the page. The connector line automatically appears between the two shapes with an arrow at the end of the line pointing at the second shape.
4.Connect the two shapes manually with the Connector tool. Click “Connector” in the Tools area in the “Home” tab section.
5.Click the side of the first shape -- the one you want the connector to start from -- and then click the side of the second shape where you want the line to end. You have drawn a line connecting the shapes with the arrow pointing at the second shape.
Change Arrow Size and Shape
2.Click the 'Home' tab at the top of the screen to reveal the tools under the tab. Click 'Line' in the Shape section and then click “Line Options.'
3.Ethiopian orthodox mezmur mp3. Select an arrow size and shape under “Arrows” and then click “OK” to change the connector.
Tip
- You can also draw a connector and arrowhead, as well as add another shape, without using the sidebar. Align your cursor above a shape and wait for the navigational arrows to appear around the border of the shape. Roll your cursor over the navigational arrow where you want to start the connector line. A mini toolbar with four shapes appears. Click a shape on the mini toolbar to drop the shape on the page. A connector with arrowhead will automatically appear between the two shapes.
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