I re-vamped some of my content about the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel in my last post, so I thought I should expand a bit more on the Data Visualizer feature in Visio for Desktop (Visio Plan 2) and Excel for Desktop. I have described it in detail in previous posts, but I never published the process diagram I created for the Data Visualizer Wizard in Visio. So, I thought I would use it to demonstrate a few cool features of Visio for Desktop.
Firstly, this source data in Excel:
This is the Visio diagram of the process automatically created by DV from the Excel table.
This is a Word document exported from Visio:
This is a PowerPoint exported from Visio, and enhanced by my SS Plus add-in:
This is the PowerPoint presentation exported as a video:
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