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Whether you’re creating an organizational chart, a network diagram or a business process, the new tools and more intuitive interface in Visio Standard 2010 make it easier to bring your diagrams to life.

• Modern, pre-drawn shapes, intelligent templates, sample drawings and a wide variety of options, to meet your diagramming needs.
• Create a diagram from scratch or modify an existing diagram, by adding and aligning shapes quickly, easily and accurately with features such as the Quick Shapes Mini Toolbar, enhanced dynamic grid, page Auto Size, automatic alignment and layout adjustment.
• Logical groupings of features in Ribbon tabs and enhanced Shapes window, allows easy access to shapes and stencils, and a new status bar that helps you move more efficiently within and between your diagrams.
• Bring your diagrams to life with real-time data, by connecting your diagram to one or more data sources such as Excel or SQL Server. Then, display real-time data right within your diagrams, based on conditions you define, using vibrant colours, icons, symbols, and data bars.
• Make your diagrams attractive, professional-looking and appealing in seconds, with a wide range of formatting tools and design options, including modern visuals, a rich gallery of themes, and Live Preview.

• Brainstorming / Mind Maps.
• Cause and Effect / Ishikawa / Fishbone.
• Organizational Charts.
• Project Management Diagrams (inc. timelines and calendars, Gantt Chart and Pert Chart).
• Static Sharing of Diagrams (by saving as PDF, XPS or a webpage).
• Improved, Cross-Functional Flowchart / Swim Lane.
• Improved, Integration with other products, Customisation and Extensitbility.
• New, Intuitive Navigation and Easy Diagramming Features.

• Operating System: Windows Vista with SP1 (64-bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 (64-bit) with MSXML 6.0 installed, Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (64-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit). Terminal Server and Windows on Windows (WOW) (which allows installing 32-bit versions of Office 2010 on 64-bit operating systems) are supported.
• Processor: 500 MHz processor or higher.
• Memory: 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher.
• Hard disk: 2.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of the disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
• Display: 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor; 1024x576 or higher for Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Additional: Use of graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64 MB or higher video memory. Requirements and product functionality can vary based on the system configuration and operating system.