Collaboration Isn’t In Real TimeĮven on Windows, although several users can view a Visio file in Visio Online at the same time, only one person can work on it at a time. However, if you try to edit a diagram you’ll be prompted to open the diagram in Visio Pro to “use the full functionality of Microsoft Visio” – which of course isn’t available on Mac.Įven if you want to do something as simple as edit the shape data of a network diagram, you can’t with Visio Online. You can also add comments to diagrams as a Mac user although if there are multiple people viewing a document at the same time, you need to keep refreshing the document to see the comments. Mac users can however use Visio Online to view Visio files in their browser (although you’ll need a commercial Windows 365 subscription to use it – see more on Visio Online Pricing below). To actually edit a diagram, you have to click on the “Edit In Visio” option to open the desktop version of Visio for Windows as you can see below. Therefore, many of the crucial editing features that most people need to edit Visio diagrams simply don’t work on Mac. Visio Online is intertwined with the desktop version of Microsoft Visio Pro – which is only available on Windows. Here’s a few things that Mac users need to be aware of before getting their hopes-up about Visio Online.
However, the reality is that Visio Online is mainly a Visio viewer for Mac users because as we’ll see, for full editing of diagrams you need Visio Pro for Windows. The arrival of Visio Online was big news for Mac users in particular because there is no version of Visio for Mac and for the first time, it provided an easy way for Mac users to open Visio files on their Mac. It also serves as an easier to use, stripped-down version of Visio for easy creation of diagrams such as flowcharts and org charts that’s comparable to many of the cloud diagramming tools that are available nowadays. Both plans comes with 2G of free OneDrive storage. The full version of Visio is only available either via Visio Plan 1 for $5.00 per month or with both a web and desktop app via Visio Plan 2 for $15.00 per month. Non-commercial Microsoft 365 plans such as Microsoft Business Basic and Microsoft Business Standard do not include access to the Microsoft Visio web app. The full list of Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions which include Visio for Web are: Visio Online was introduced by Microsoft in 2016 to make it easier for Visio users to share and edit Visio diagrams online.īy 2021, Visio for the web was added to all Microsoft 365 commercial subscription. What You Users Can Do With Visio Online.
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