Template category - brainstorming

Capture, arrange, and expand ideas generated by a group or your own ideas with the new Brainstorming template. Brainstorming diagrams show interrelationships among topics in a hierarchy.

Getting Started with Visio

Starting Visio and Using Templates

Page tabs

In multiple-page drawings, you can quickly navigate between pages and reorder them by using the page tabs in the lower-left portion of the Visio window.

Getting Started with Visio

Working Within the Visio Environment

Rotation handles

Visio shapes now have Microsoft Office-style rotation handles so you can rotate easily without changing tools.

Getting Started with Visio

Working with Shapes and Diagrams

Working with 1-D and 2-D Shapes

Moving, Sizing, Rotating, and Copying Shapes

Office Online Help

Get access to articles, tips, clip art, templates, online training, downloads, and services to enhance how you work with Office programs.

Getting Started with Visio

Getting Help for Visio and Diagrams

Calendar Art shapes

In the improved Calendar template, you can highlight important dates with eye-catching Calendar Art shapes.

Creating Project Schedules

Creating Calendars for an Overview of Your Schedule

One or more timelines on the same drawing page

Create vertical timelines, and synchronize milestones and intervals across multiple timelines on a page.

Creating Project Schedules

Creating Timelines to View Projects at a Glance

Changing behavior of groups and shapes within groups

You can modify the settings and change the behavior of groups, and shapes within groups. For example, instead of resizing a shape within a group when the group is resized, you can reposition it only.

Creating and Customizing Shapes, Stencils, and Templates

Grouping and Merging Shapes