When opening stencils with large number of shapes (e.g. Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol) it is very difficult to find the shape by scrolling up and down within the narrow confines of the open shape pane.

It would be helpful if there was a simple way to search within the shape pane. Perhaps by just start to type after clicking on the pane and the search term highlights the shape name and focus shifts. This is like incremental search in many editors. Another way may be a small search box after the horizontal separator line for 'Drop Quick Shapes Here'

I feel this will increase the usability of visio.

For multi-monitor setups allowing child windows to be separated from the single host app window would be extremely useful, as per Excel: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2013/02/07/open-excel-workbooks-in-separate-windows-and-view-them-side-by-side/, or, ideally, using Visual Studio's tear off windows, out of the main app into some spare screen space.

Although you can stretch the app window across multiple monitors the break between two monitors never sits in the right place (ie the break between two child windows) and so you end up using a single monitor.

In Visio, it's common to have multiple ShapeSheet windows open at once, either displaying master and instance, or one for each sub-shape in a group. In my setup (28" 3840x2160 @ 125%) I recon on one drawing window + a maximum of five ShapeSheet windows as being usable, but beyond that you spend all your time scrolling and switching windows. One of the real benefits of a large screen in Visio is being able to see more ShapeSheet sections at once and this is limited by only being able to use a single monitor.

From the drawing window perspective, other scenarios might also include: a) master details view - for example a one window for a floor plan, displayed alongside other windows of the same page at different zoom levels and areas of focus, b) multi-page view - ie one window per page

Bottom line - I've got plenty of screen real-estate and I'd like Visio to make full use of it so that I can be more productive.

Visio 365 Layers allowing display based on more than one layer.

I have a drawing with multiple sections grouped by layers. I want to display a few connectors or shapes only if multiple layers are selected. I can assign it to one or the other or both, but if I do not have both layers visible I do not want to see the connector or shape. Is there a context I can add to the Layer Membership ShapeSheet values?

Currently I have ="13;21" as I have the connector/shape assigned to layers 13 and 21. If either are active it is visible. I only want to see it if both are visible.

I am looking for something like ="13and21"

This would mean the connector/shape would only be visible when both layers 13 and 21 are active, but not if just either one are active.

Thanks!

Dynamic grid functionality is missing if we open Visio via RDP session (W10 OS + Visio 2013/2016 any version). Reprosteps:

1.-Take 2 machines and do an RDP session from machine A to machine B (Visio 2013/2016 needs to be installed on machine B)
2.-Open Visio 2013/2016 after establishing the RDP session.
3.-Make sure that the “Dynamic grid” functionality is not turned off (It should be enabled by default).
4.-Try to check if the mentioned funcionaly works by adding more than one shape on any drawing.

Actual result: Dynamic grid is not working.
Expected result: Dynamic grid should be working.
Workaround: The same does not happen if we previously opened Visio before establishing the RDP session.

This issue has been already notified here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_visio-mso_win10-mso_2016/visio-2016-dynamic-grid-and-guidelines-not-working/920c6916-0e89-4eb7-b5cb-9ff73fa8287c

It has been tested internally on SR 118091919040266. It seems to be a visual cosmetic malfunction that can only triggered with RDP sessions.

When opening stencils with large number of shapes (e.g. Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol) it is very difficult to find the shape by scrolling up and down within the narrow confines of the open shape pane.

It would be helpful if there was a simple way to search within the shape pane. Perhaps by just start to type after clicking on the pane and the search term highlights the shape name and focus shifts. This is like incremental search in many editors. Another way may be a small search box after the horizontal separator line for 'Drop Quick Shapes Here'

I feel this will increase the usability of visio.

After using visio standard edition for a while I decided I would like to try the features from professional, however found the only way to access these features was to outright by professional, as the sole visio user in my company taking this path would mean I am sat on a license for a product I would never use and it's quite an expensive license to not utilise.

It would make more sense to allow me to pay the license cost difference between standard and professional and have my current license upgraded to professional (or have it replaced)

I cannot be the only user looking to move to your more expensive product