Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007

Chapter 10.Visio with Other Applications

In This Chapter

Importing and Exporting Data

Creating Organization Charts from External Data

Creating Gantt Charts from External Data

Creating Calendars by Importing Microsoft Outlook Appointments

Linking Shapes to Data with Data Links

Refreshing Linked Data

Using Data Graphics

Editing Data Graphics

Working with Databases

Importing and Exporting Data

Why import or export data in Visio? There are plenty of reasons. For example, you might already have data you want to display stored in a database file, or a spreadsheet. You might update that file and want to update your shapes based on that data.

You might also want to avoid errors, and working with external, checkable files can be the way to go here. ...