Microsoft recently made some significant enhancements to its Visio add-in for Excel, enabling users to create Visio diagrams from within Excel. Here's how it works.

I have a document that has a Visio file embedded within a tab in Excel. This works fine. MIcrosoft even makes it easy to edit the Visio document. I just double click and it opens right up. It's ...

Templates and wizards are included with the product that take data from existing sources, such as an Excel spreadsheet, and populate Visio charts. As data is changed, the chart is updated.