Learn how to download and install Visio 2007 or later versions on your PC. You need a product key, a Microsoft account, and a compatible browser to complete the installation.

Learn about the differences between Visio in Microsoft 365, Visio Plan 1, and Visio Plan 2. See how to create, edit, share, and collaborate on diagrams for various industries and functions.

Getting started with Visio can be summarized into three basic steps: using a template, arranging and connecting shapes, and modifying shapes with text. Note: If you have Visio Plan 2, you have access to both the installed app and the web version of Visio. With Visio Plan 1, you get just the web version of Visio.

On this page, you can access some of the top templates and sample diagrams available in Visio, or request ones that you want. To see the hundreds of templates and sample diagrams available, you can open a template in the Visio app or in Visio for the web.

Visio has several tools to help you lay out shapes and connectors neatly and evenly. Align options make shapes line up straight. Position options make even spacing between shapes.

In the Format Shape pane, click Line and make the changes you want, such as changing the line width, color, kind of arrow, or type of line. Learn how to draw or change a line in Visio..

Download the latest version of Visio Viewer from the Microsoft Download Center. Notes: Visio Viewer 2016 can open Visio drawings (.vsd files) saved in Visio 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. Visio Viewer 2016 can also open Visio XML drawings (.vdx files) saved in Visio 2002, 2003, and 2007.

Compatibility Mode lets you open, edit, and save drawings from earlier versions, by turning off features of Visio that would cause problems in earlier versions. How to start Compatibility Mode Open a document that is in the earlier file format.

Visio gives you multiple tools to select, move, resize, and rotate shapes and objects. Once you have selected an object—or all the objects—on the drawing, you can then change their position, enlarge or shrink them, flip them horizontally, and nudge them into position.