Microsoft Visio 2019 Professional

Microsoft Visio 2019 Professional Features

Microsoft Visio 2019 Professional is ready to design and distribute complex information and plans company-wide. Create campaigns, illustrate important concepts, and communicate more effectively with the powerful features of Visio 2019 Professional.

View your diagrams easier

More and more people utilize the cloud on a daily basis. Visio 2019 Professional now includes a way to view your diagrams in the cloud by using a web browser. This is possible thanks to Visio Online, which is available to all users with an Office 365 subscription. View your diagrams on the go from any device using a native web browser.

This feature is helpful to view diagrams quickly as well. If you receive a Visio diagram in Outlook, you can immediately view the file in your browser without having to download it first. The Microsoft team is also working on bringing editing into the web-based interface sometime in the future.

Give your projects a head start with templates

Sometimes we need to get things done quickly, which templates can help you with. The use of templates became popular as people are looking to accomplish great results in a short amount of time. Templates can help you start a project, or give you design ideas and solutions to progress faster. Visio 2019 Professional comes with a large library of templates in plenty of different categories to assure you find what you're looking for, or at least something similar. Additionally, users have access to new starter diagrams in the Organization Chart, Brainstorming and SDL templates.

Wireframe diagrams for website designs

If you’re a web designer, your life will be much easier with Visio 2019 Professional. You’re able to create website or application wireframes that act as the blueprint of your user interface, functionality, and content. Designers can plan ahead in an effective manner on both website and mobile platforms with corresponding wireframe templates for each category. These templates are perfect for presenting ideas and carefully planning out the layout and functionality of your projects.

When choosing to work with Wireframe diagrams, you can either start a blank drawing or pick a starter diagram to get you going faster. Within each template, you can find five stencils: controls, containers, text, media, and navigation. Each stencil is a pre-formed group of shapes and smart shapes, making it quick and easy to work with Wireframe diagrams. Smart shapes are fully customizable, as they’re linked to control points and right-click menu actions. This lets you modify numeric values, ranges, and visual styles with ease.

Each Wireframe template can be used for different browsers and mobile devices, as they're made generic and easy to customize for your very own needs. Visio 2019 Professional also comes with 8 different templates and starter diagrams for wireframes, which all offer a different look and different functionality. Choose which one you prefer and begin designing within seconds of opening Visio!

Unified Modeling Language tools

You now have the ability to create Unified Modeling Language diagrams that display components, ports, interfaces, as well as the relationship between these elements and diagrams. New UML communication diagrams show the interactions between lifelines which utilize sequenced messages in a free-form agreement, and the UML deployment diagrams show the architecture of deploying software artifacts to nodes.

Better support for AutoCAD

If you are someone who uses AutoCAD, the new Visio 2019 Professional release has a lot in store for you. Support for files that originate from AutoCAD has never been better before. Importing and handling these files has been made a lot easier, however, other enhancements also found their way into Visio. Better scalability, increased importing speed and immediate shape overlaying all allow you to work with AutoCAD files a thousand times better than before.

Communication and sharing

In-app communication with Visio 2019 Professional gives you the opportunity to write or read comments on other people's works that have been shared with you. Comments allow you to share your thoughts with your team or relevant stakeholders a whole lot easier. You can also reply to comments, and associate them with specific diagram shapes, making it easier to distinguish them from the actual project. Ask and answer questions, start discussions or give your team ideas, all within Visio itself.

Sharing your work with others and editing alongside the members of your team has never been easier before Visio 2019 Professional. The added co-editing tools make it possible for multiple people to work on the same project at once. You can easily share diagrams directly from Visio, add shape-specific comments and even add in-app presence through the Skype for Business service.

All of these communication and sharing features aim to make your team work better, while also increasing the ability to share files outside your team.

Leave feedback to Microsoft

Despite Microsoft endlessly working on Office products and improving them with each release, they can never be perfect. There is now a way for any user to leave feedback and suggestions about the product they’re using. Within Visio 2019 Professional, you can easily leave feedback to Microsoft about things you like or dislike in the application, let them know your thoughts about features that you’d rather see gone, or even leave your very own suggestions for future improvements. Who knows, your idea might just make the cut and appear in a new update!