Meetings to discuss business process can waste time, and often do . The meeting's dialog can get confusing when participants have different professional perspectives and backgrounds. A jointly-developed process picture helps wade through the confusing dialog.
The Data Visualizer (DV) add-in for Excel provides a powerful, fast way to build flowcharts and swimlane diagrams from data.
And you don’t even need a Visio license to make this magic happen!
For decades, the Visio org chart wizard has generated diagrams from data automatically. But all subsequent changes were manual and required recreating the diagram. The Visio Data Visualizer changes the game -- you can either change the data or the diagram and then update the other with one click.
Visio lists and containers provide valuable ways to visually and logically organize sets of related shapes. Far more flexible and powerful than groups, lists and containers allow you to define and express relationships among diagram elements.
Part of what makes Visio so powerful yet so easy to use is the ability to create master shapes that can be dragged onto the drawing page. Each copy of a master inherits the appearance, data fields, and behavior of the master. This article describes how to change masters so all copies are affected.