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Diagram your offices, floors, and spaces using Microsoft Office Visio 2007

Applies to: Microsoft Office Visio 2007

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 is the diagramming tool of choice for business and technical professionals who need to quickly and easily visualize, explore, and communicate information. With Office Visio 2007, creating a wide range of diagrams such as organization charts, timelines, flowcharts, floor plans, space plans, and office layouts is a snap.

Office Visio Standard 2007 includes everything you need to create basic professional-looking office layouts. Office Visio Professional 2007 includes additional templates and shapes to create detailed floor, space, and site plans. Use the tools included with the Space Plan template to track and report on assets in space plans. You can also easily share your diagrams with others in a variety of ways.

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Create floor plans and office layouts

Track space plans and generate asset reports

Collaborate on and share layouts

Get started with Visio floor plans

Create floor plans and office layouts

Show Easily design and layout offices

Use the Office Layout template to create simple or detailed scaled layouts for individual offices. Add details like walls, electrical symbols, cubicle layouts, and office furniture to help visualize the overall office layout.

Show Plan floor and spaces

Office Visio Professional 2007 includes all the templates, shapes, and tools you need to create scaled floor and space plans for individual rooms or entire floors in a building. You can easily include details like the wall structure, building core, and electrical symbols. Office Visio Professional 2007 also includes shapes for home plans, HVAC plans, plant layouts, and site plans.

Show Insert CAD drawings into Visio floor and space plans

Utilizing wizards in Office Visio Professional 2007, import CAD Drawings and image files into Visio floor and space plans.

Show Easily create wall structures for plans

With a single click, join lines or Wall shapes to create custom and irregularly-shaped wall structures for your plans. Use Room and Space shapes to quickly piece together rectangular-shaped spaces. Easily snap interior walls to exterior walls and let Office Visio seamlessly connect and join the wall intersections.

Show Add structural elements to plans

In Office Visio 2007, Door and Window shapes automatically connect to walls and can automatically rotate to align with them. Doors and windows in Visio floor plans also acquire a wall's thickness and move with walls when you reposition them to assist you in creating realistic and life-like drawings.

Show Add dimension lines and electrical symbols

When dragging wall switches, outlets, and other detailed wall fixtures onto the Wall shapes, the Wall fixtures will automatically connect to walls and rotate to align with them. Add dimension lines to walls and resize the walls by selecting the Dimension shape, and simply type the dimension you want.

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Track space plans and generate asset reports

Show Track resource details

Use the Space Plan template, Plan menu, and Space and Resource shapes to create space plans that track resources and their location in your organization. Create room lists manually or simply import room numbers from spreadsheets using the Space Plan Startup wizard.

Show Import data into space plans

Track and report on data — such as space use, space name, space ID, department, occupancy, asset number, serial number, and manufacturer — for spaces and assets in space plans. Use the Import Data wizard to import this data into your space plans from Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Office Exchange Server, and ODBC-compliant data sources.

Show Quickly generate reports

When using the Space Plan template in Office Visio Professional 2007, easily generate Space, Asset, and Move reports by simply dragging a report shape onto the drawing page. Easily update the report by right-clicking it on the drawing page so that your data is synched up with the details you added.

Show Add descriptive details to shapes

Try Labeling and using color-code shapes in space plans by elevation, area, capacity, name, height, use, and zone by using the Color By Value command located on the Plan menu. Easily set, view, and customize display options — such as whether to display walls as single or double lines, display door frames, headers, panels, swings, and thresholds — for your space plans. Open the Space Plan template to view shapes in space plans by the space they're in or by their category with the Space Explorer window.

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Collaborate on and share layouts

Show Integrate layout diagrams into other Microsoft Office applications

Import diagrams into your Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations and Microsoft Office Word documents. Share floor and space layout information as Visio diagrams and image files, so your audience can easily visualize detailed floor and space plans at a glance.

Show Collaborate with colleagues

Easily collaborate with colleagues to create floor layouts and plan diagrams and streamline the edit and review process by using revision marks to track each person's changes. If you're using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, easily check diagrams in and out directly from Office Visio.

Show Convert layout and space diagrams to other formats

Make your diagrams available to all people in your organization by saving them as Web pages and posting them to your organization's intranet. Save Visio diagrams in PDF or XPS file format to make them more portable and to reach additional audiences. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in.

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Get started with Visio floor plans

Downloadable templates
Office space analysis
Office move plan
Office Layout
Medical office layout

Help and how-to
Create a floor plan	Use the Floor Plan template in Microsoft Office Visio to draw floor plans for individual rooms or for entire floors for your building.
Create a space plan	Use the Space Plan template to create a drawing that uses Space shapes and resource shapes to track the approximate location of resources in a floor plan.
Create an office layout	Use the Office Layout template in Microsoft Office Visio to draw layouts for individual offices, including walls, electrical symbols, cubicle layouts, office furniture, and office accessories.

Training
Link data to diagrams	This course, the first in a four-part series, will show you how to link your data to diagrams in Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007.
Visualize data in diagrams by using data graphics	Make the data look good with data graphics in Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007. Use bars, meters, and icons to give visual impact.
Position data graphics	Position your data graphics so that they don't crowd the page.

Demos
See Office Visio 2007 in action	See how Visio 2007 is an extraordinary tool for IT and business professionals who need to visualize systems, processes, and other information for insight and communication
Connect data to your Visio diagram	Analyze how a process or other area is actually performing by connecting data to the shapes in your diagram.
Let data tell its story with data graphics	By using data graphics in your Microsoft Office Visio 2007 diagram, you can be sure that you're presenting the right data in the right way and making your points clearly.
Give your diagram a makeover by applying a theme	Use themes in Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 to add color and style to your diagram with just a few clicks.

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