A varied selection of templates is available for general needs, including charts (organization charts, flowcharts, and marketing charts), project schedules (calendars, timelines, and Gantt charts), maps (directional and geographic), cause-and-effect diagrams, block diagrams, basic network diagrams, and basic office layouts. To assemble customized diagrams, users can drag task-specific shapes onto pages and have Visio automatically connect and align them. Themes (sets of colors and effects) can be added to a diagram with a single mouse click.

Diagram creators can track reviewers' comments and changes to shapes. Diagrams can contain inserted pictures and clip art and can be saved as web pages.

The 2010 version of Visio Standard adds the Fluent user interface, which simplifies navigation by replacing menus and toolbars with a set of task-based tabs known as the Ribbon. An enhanced Shapes window gives easier access to shapes and stencils, and a new status bar aids navigation within and between diagrams.

This Standard version should meet the needs of most organizations. If an organization works with specialized engineering, IT applications, or other technical material — or if it wants to dynamically link data to diagrams and publish them online — review the additional functions offered in the Visio Professional 2010 package. There is also Visio Premium 2010, which includes all the features of Visio Professional 2010 in addition to organization process management features and the ability to publish to a process repository for centralized storage of process documents.

大量授權重要訊息: 申請的組織有兩種大量授權金鑰(volume licence key)的選擇可以啟動Office 2010，用Key Management Service (KMS)金鑰或Multiple Activation Key (MAK)金鑰，兩種金鑰都可以在微軟大量授權服務中心取得。

微軟建議要為超過50台電腦啟用Visio 2010，或同時部署Office 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010時使用KMS金鑰；對50台電腦以下的啟動或非區域網絡的部署時，則使用MAK。詳細大量授權相關產品金鑰問題，請見微軟網站啟動 Microsoft Office 大量版本。

必備安裝光碟和授權金鑰: 安裝此軟體須有授權金鑰(license key)與產品安裝光碟DVD配合使用。申請後安裝光碟將免費寄送到機構登記的地址。

配合安裝光碟，授權金鑰讓申請捐贈的組織啟動符合申請數量的電腦。當組織完成訂單而科技濃湯收到行政處理費後，組織會收到一封email顯示申請的捐贈數量和行政處理費明細，另一封email指示如何取得金鑰的資訊稍後也會寄到組織登記的email信箱。

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