How To Edit Microsoft Visio Document?

Microsoft Visio is one of the popular diagramming and vector graphics applications in the world. It's used to create flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, business diagrams, mind maps and so on. As a matter of fact, it's not only used by office workers but also students can use Visio to create technical drawings such as site plans, circuit boards, floor plans and more. To do so, you need to convert Visio file to some other formats. And for that conversion process, you need a proper converter which could help you in making the output document readable and editable.

Microsoft Visio is used for bringing your thinking to life. It may be a little brainstorming or even an essential diagram for your business flow. But as software not used frequently or much or not a common software like word or excel operating or editing in this interface can be quite confusing.

But I’ll discuss today how to easily edit your Microsoft document or diagram. You can edit it in the browser or the desktop app as you find suitable.

Before You Get Started

Microsoft Visio comes with Office 365 packages or if you’ve manually installed it. You need Microsoft Access or id to create or edit any document in Visio workspace. You must have an Office 365 id to access one drive or any Visio documents made by you or shared by others.

Firstly, you need some basic ideas on how to access your Microsoft account and One Drive. Then the basic knowledge about operating Microsoft Visio for editing files is here.

After ensuring all of these things I think you are ready to know the process.

Editing Visio document or diagram in Visio for the web

Sometimes you don’t have access to the Visio desktop app and you need to edit on the go. So, you can edit your document in the web version in any browser if you got access to your Microsoft 356 id. Below the procedure for editing is stated:

1. First, log in to your Office 365 Id with credentials (Office mail and password).
2. If you have the document on the library of Microsoft 365 in OneDrive or SharePoint find the Visio file from there.
3. You can click on the Visio document’s filename. 
4. The Visio file will open for the only view by default
5. Now the main step for editing is selecting the Edit diagram option and from there edit in the browser where you can make some quick changes on the go using the web version of Visio.
   

You can also switch to view mode after editing easily. Just select the Reading view from the View option.

Editing Visio document or diagram in Visio desktop

Not all types of the diagram are supported in the Visio online or browser. Some complex must have to be done in the desktop app with all features. But how to do it? Follow these simple instructions from below: 

1. First, log in to your Office 365 Id with credentials (Office mail and password).
2. If you have the document on the library of Microsoft 365 in OneDrive or SharePoint find the Visio file from there.
3. You can click on the Visio document’s filename. 
4. The Visio file will open for the only view by default
5. From the viewing, a diagram situation for editing it in the desktop app click on edit in Desktop App potion or the first option from the Edit Diagram list.
   
6. In the edit in the Desktop App option, you’ll get all the features and full functionality from the Microsoft Visio app.

So, this is how you can easily edit your Microsoft Visio document on the go or even with full features.

Summary: Edit Microsoft Visio document

• Click the Template that has the page layout you want.
• In the search box, type a keyword or phrase that describes what kind of diagram you want to create (for example, basic drawing).
• Double-click a template in the search results.
• In the search box, type a keyword or phrase that describes what kind of diagram you want to create (for example, flowchart), and then click Shapes.
• Drag shapes onto your drawing.
• Select a shape and then edit the shape text by using the Text pane or using standard text editing commands.
• On the File menu, click Print.
• Under Printer, select a printer and select any other settings you want.