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 ...

Visio’s data-linking features allow users to connect diagrams to external data sources like Excel or SQL databases, so diagrams can automatically update to reflect changes in the underlying data.