Visio Online

Introduction 

Visio is a data vizualization tool that allows users to pull data from locations like Excel or Sharepoint and transform them into diagrams, flowcharts, and timelines.

Check out the Visio introduction video here and then learn how to set up Visio on mobile to take your designs with you anywhere. 

Recommendation: VISIO ONLINE 2 _{Updated (February 2021)}

• Step 1: Get a price quote from Dell (see contact below)
  • example:

    • Hello Sam,
      Please send a price quote for the following 
      Microsoft Premium app subscriptions.

      • VISIO Plan 2 - 12 licenses                                
        Thanks,
        Customer

• Step 2: Pay for it:

  • ITS: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/services/requests/ 
  • Campus: your department billing contact

• Step 3: Contact ITS to associate licenses to users. (Service Now)

  • Licenses: https://ut.service-now.com/sp?id=sc_cat_item_guide&sys_id=a2299bbedbdaeb00afcf22d4059619c8

• Step 4: Billing - no action required. ITS will auto-renew and bill for the next year. (Service Now)

  • ITS will auto bill via your ten digti UT account number and billing contact.
  • The billing contact is the owner of all licenses
  • The billing contact can modify users and transfer licenses.
  • To modify use the URL above and select Modify

• Notes:
  • Technically, ITS is not involved until the licenses have been purchased and assigned to the tenant by Dell
  • Dell does not communicate their process to ITS
  • We rely on the customer to bring us the reciept
  • ITS will assign user licenses based on the Service Now request ticket
• Service-Now Assignee Group:
  • ITS-SYSTEMS-OFFICE 365

Using Visio Online allows you to:

• ​Take complex ideas and organize them
• Use templates for things like timelines, flow charts, and more
• Take data from Excel, Access, or Sharepoint to create dynamic diagrams.

Getting Started

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Get Working

• Creating and Editing In Visio

  Creating

  You can start creating content in Visio by using some of its pre-made templates.

        

  Don't like templates? Learn how to create content from scratch with some of these links:

  • Create flowcharts and business charts
  • Use the Create Diagram from Data wizard Insert a picture into a Visio diagram
  • Build Visio diagrams using touch
  • Create a line graph
  • Create a PivotDiagram
  • Create a marketing diagram
  • Create a tree diagram
  • Create a Venn diagram
  • Save a diagram as a graphic or image file

   

  Editing

  Compatibility Between Versions of Visio

   

  You may experience some issues with how drawings work when opening a drawing that was created in an older version. Using the built-in Compatibility Mode helps with these issues and allows you to save drawings in formats suitable with older versions. 

   

  • Change the drawing scale
  • Change grid space size
  • Customize shapes and stencils
  • Add text, pictures, and tables

   

  Learn more about VIsio version compatibility>>

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