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What's new in Visio 2010
Visio 2010 finally includes the much-vaunted Microsoft ribbon, and makes it much easier to lay out your diagrams professionally.
Specific new or changed features in Visio 2010 include:
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - THE RIBBON
Visio 2010 finally replaces the menus and toolbars of old with the ribbon (or Fluent User Interface as Microsoft like to call it).
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - CUSTOMISING THE RIBBON
You can customise the ribbon to create new tabs with your own groups of controls.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - IMPROVED SHAPES WINDOW
The Shapes Window now allows you to do much more in terms of organising and finding shapes. Each stencil now has a Quick Shapes area at the top containing the most frequently used shapes from that stencil.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - IMPROVED SHAPES WINDOW (2)
You can rearrange the shapes on each stencil by simply clicking and dragging them around.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - IMPROVED SHAPES WINDOW (3)
You can open new stencils and search for shapes from the top of the Shapes Window.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - QUICK SHAPES
When you have multiple stencils open the Quick Shapes area shows the frequently used shapes from each stencil.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - IMPROVED SHAPE LAYOUT FEATURES
It’s now much easier to arrange your shapes on the page to make sure they’re aligned precisely and distributed evenly.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - IMPROVED AUTOCONNECTION
Automatically connecting shapes in a flowchart has been improved to allow you to choose which shape to add.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - IMPROVED AUTOCONNECTION (2)
When you drop a new shape in between existing shapes Visio will intelligently rearrange the diagram to accommodate it.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - PAGE LAYOUT - BETTER MARGINS
It’s now much easier to see the borders and margins of the drawing page without having to visit the Print Preview.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - AUTO-EXPANDING PAGES
If your diagram spills over the edge of the page Visio will automatically expand the page size to make sure everything still fits.
New/changed Visio 2010 feature - CONTAINER SHAPES
Containers provide a way to group several shapes together visually.
You can view a full list of changes in recent versions of Visio by returning to our main Visio version history page.