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Microsoft 365 Blog

Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Blog! Learn best practices, news, and trends directly from the Microsoft 365 team.

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Microsoft Visio is Rolling Out to Microsoft 365 Commercial Subscribers Worldwide

Mukul Kumar on Nov 01 2021 09:00 AM
Learn all about the Visio web app currently rolling out to Microsoft 365 commercial tenants!
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Business continuity: a practical how-to

Senajs on Jul 15 2021 07:00 AM
Learn how to properly implement business continuity (BC) plans in your organization
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Business continuity: a basic need for organizations

Senajs on Jul 06 2021 07:00 AM
Plan for the unexpected with business process documentation (BPM) and business continuity plans (BCP)
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Modern landing page for Visio on Office.com

AakankshaRaj on May 04 2021 09:24 PM
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Visio start page on Office.com, providing Visio users with a familiar s...
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Learn about the development of our favorite Visio solutions

Amit Oberoi on Mar 23 2021 07:00 AM
Read our under-the-hood whitepaper series for the development history of three Visio offerings
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Bring your ideas to life with new capabilities in Visio for the web

AakankshaRaj on Feb 25 2021 08:31 AM
At Visio, we are constantly working on new features to enhance the Visio for the web experience. In this blog, we provid...
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Collaboration just got easier: Real-time coauthoring now available in Visio for the web

tripteeshkaur on Feb 02 2021 01:57 PM
We are excited to present the first look at one of the most productivity-enhancing feature in Visio for the web: Real-ti...
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Sketch your AWS architecture using Visio for the web

Shefali_Birla on Oct 29 2020 11:06 PM
We have enabled infrastructure shapes from another major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Visio for the web.
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Upcoming canvas and landing page enhancements for the Visio web app

AakankshaRaj on Oct 08 2020 07:00 AM
Read about the UI changes coming to Visio for the web, like predefined page sizes and improved file discovery
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Improve visual collaboration by embedding your Visio files on Confluence pages

Prateek Sharma on Oct 05 2020 07:00 AM
Easily add Visio diagrams to your Confluence pages through OneDrive
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Purchase Visio cloud subscriptions with your business domain

Olia_Savintseva on Oct 01 2020 02:43 PM
Get Visio on your own without compromising IT oversight with self-service purchase
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Recapping Ignite with the five biggest Visio updates

Mukul Kumar on Sep 29 2020 12:32 PM
This recap includes links to all six Visio session videos delivered at Ignite last week
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Recapping Ignite with the five biggest Visio updates

Amit Oberoi on Sep 22 2020 08:05 AM
This recap includes links to all six Visio session videos delivered at Ignite last week
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Purchase Visio cloud subscriptions with your business domain

AakankshaRaj on Sep 16 2020 07:00 AM
Get Visio on your own without compromising IT oversight with self-service purchase
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Visually represent your Azure architecture using the latest shapes in Visio for the web

Shefali_Birla on Sep 04 2020 02:24 AM
We are bringing the refreshed Azure icons to Visio for the web to enable users to represent modern cloud services.
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Planning for Social Distancing in the Workplace with Microsoft Visio

David Parker on Aug 11 2020 07:39 AM
Socially distanced workstationsLearn how to use the new Workplace Social Distancing stencils to help with planning your ...
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Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel enhanced with new capabilities

Amit Oberoi on Jul 02 2020 12:52 AM
Have a much richer data diagramming experience with enhanced Visio data visualizer add-in in Excel
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Visio as a tab in Microsoft Teams is generally available

Shilpa Goyal on Jun 18 2020 10:12 AM
We now bring you Visio as a tab to help you easily access and manage the Visio files you need or interact with the most.
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Design your database using an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) in Visio

Shefali_Birla on May 27 2020 11:04 PM
In November, we released UML diagrams for Visio Web. Now, we are bringing ERD shapes and functionalities to enable users...
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Five recent collaboration and canvas improvements to the Visio web app

Mukul Kumar on Apr 29 2020 02:11 PM
Take a look at the five recent collaboration and canvas improvements recently released for the Visio for the web.
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Create new Visio diagrams within Microsoft Teams

Shilpa Goyal on Apr 06 2020 10:30 PM
Create new Visio diagrams, share them with colleagues, and collaborate directly in Microsoft Teams
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Three ways you can use Visio to turn your org chart into a strategic business tool

Mukul Kumar on Feb 25 2020 01:04 PM
Learn how you can use Visio as a people management tool using it's built in org chart templates and integrations.
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Centralized Deployment of the Visio Data Visualizer add-in

Amit Oberoi on Feb 12 2020 08:00 AM
Deploy the Visio Data Visualizer add-in to multiple users within your organization
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Visio recap from Microsoft Ignite 2019

Mukul Kumar on Nov 26 2019 10:13 AM
Ignite was a great event for us this year, and we are thrilled to have the conference as a venue to share our updates an...
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Model systems using Unified Modeling Language (UML) shapes in Visio for the web

Chirag Kansal on Nov 05 2019 08:00 AM
To make system modeling easier and faster, we are bringing UML shapes and functionalities to Visio for the web.
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Data Visualizer add-in for Excel now available in public preview

Shashank Gandhi on Nov 04 2019 07:46 AM
Earlier this year, we released for private preview the Data Visualizer add-in for Excel, a new way to create data-driven...
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Join Visio at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando!

Mukul Kumar on Oct 29 2019 01:57 PM
The Visio team is coming to Ignite with exciting updates and new features to share. We’d love to see you in-person there...
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Export Visio diagrams to Power Automate is now generally available

Shilpa Goyal on Oct 14 2019 09:00 PM
Earlier this year, we released for public preview Export to Power Automate, a new, efficient way for you to design easil...
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Six Visio releases that enhance the Microsoft 365 better together and touch experiences

Mukul Kumar on Aug 28 2019 07:01 AM
Recapping the many releases for Visio over the last six months.  
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Create and share data-driven Visio diagrams directly in Excel

Shashank Gandhi on May 30 2019 10:00 AM
The days of manually (and meticulously) creating process flowcharts are over. With the Data Visualizer add-in, Visio aut...

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Petterfran
in Introducing Modern Comments in Microsoft Word on Dec 07 2021 09:25 AM
Dear Microsoft,I am able to opt out (hoping that this will last forever!) there is one tool that i miss. When I used to go over a comment in revision marks I was able to see who made the comment. No longer possible now and this is really painful. A tip to get it back?Thanks
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Susan Coward
in Introducing Modern Comments in Microsoft Word on Dec 07 2021 08:54 AM
@PeterL64 I've no idea what it's doing. It still all says the same (but yes, it did used to say current channel. I still get the ''Your system is up to date'' message when checking for updates, despite having renewed my subscription. The odd thing is it refers to "approved by system admin'', so not ...
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Michael_Heyns
in Introducing Modern Comments in Microsoft Word on Dec 07 2021 07:41 AM
Thank you for sharing this feedback @Pamela-1 . I've sent you a separate message to get some more detail to better understand the issue you're experiencing.
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in Introducing Modern Comments in Microsoft Word on Dec 07 2021 07:35 AM
@Katie Sullivan et al, What have you done? I got rid of modern comments and turned off auto updates. I've opened up a document and suddenly I have a weird version of them back! This is it, isn't it? This is where my version of 365 starts to arc up and act strange because I refuse to accept this POS ...
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in Transforming creation and collaboration with Microsoft Loop components in Teams chat on Dec 07 2021 06:42 AM
I really hope this rolls out to Education customers soon! Or at least those of us who have opted our tenants into Targeted Release! I've got some professors on campus who would love to try this out. Plus, it'd be handy for quickly tracking updates to our computer labs as I deploy through MECM and my...
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