Microsoft Office Visio

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Microsoft Office Visio offers a range of tools for the visualization of processes, relationships, systems, and schedules.

The opening screen offers a range of templates in the left column. The most recent templates are reflected in the middle. The far right column shows recent documents.

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[edit] Template Categories

This software tool offers template categories that are widely used in a variety of fields: business, engineering, flowchart, general, maps and floor plans, network, schedule, and software and database.

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For example, engineering templates involve various types.

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Business templates offer even greater varieties.

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[edit] Preset Forms

This tool offers pre-set forms. In the following example, this “data flow diagram” has a lot of shapes, borders and titles, backgrounds and arrow shapes that may be used.

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This tool offers plenty of aids to creating and laying out imagery—for object alignment, distribution, rotation, and copying.

[edit] A Look and Feel

Digital imagery may be imported into a Visio file.

Different styles and color themes may be applied to a particular image as well.

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[edit] See Also

Microsoft Office Visio Product Site: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/default.aspx

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Product Overview: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HA101656401033.aspx

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