Compatibility With Visio

Microsoft and many online forums claim it's not possible to install 2013 and 2016 products side by side, just wondering if anyone here has successfully done this as we have a client who has Visio 2013 and Office 365 (2016). Upgrading is not really an option.

I bribe you with reddit gold if you know how to do this. UPDATE: After yelling at MS a bit they decided to give me the free upgrade.

But wait apparently because the cd key was bought with a physical disk and never associated with a MS account they can't upgrade it. Well that's easy then:. Me: How do I associate it with an account then?. Microsoft: You don't. Me: So what about the free upgrade?. Microsoft: No idea what you're talking about!

What's your problem? Let me transfer you!

I hate you so much. I've been through this a bit lately and it's insane. Basically if you had your Visio registered with a Microsoft account, you can give them your email and they can upgrade you. I had to talk to office support. When you talk to the first round of people, mention as little as possible about office 365. Just say you upgraded your office suite to 2016 and now your 2013 standalone products don't work. Again, mention as little about O365 to them because they will just transfer you in circles.

It took me like an hour to get 4 products upgraded. The worst part is, if it's registered under other employee emails, you need to go through those employees. Each product needs a different email to send the upgrade to. I had to give them my personal email at one point. It's a real shit show.

We are currently using Microsoft Visio Standard 2010 and we have the Microsoft Visio Compatibility Pack and the Microsoft Visio Viewer 2013 installed. We received a.VSDX file from our client and when we open the file we see 'File conversion in Progress.' Pop up and then the file converts to a.VSD file. Now the Compatibility Checker appears at the top and the Details show a list of potential problems.

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In this case it indicates 'Shadow effects might be displayed differently in this version of Visio' and 'Some theme effects are not supported in this version of Visio'. I have the option to View Original and I try to compare both, but how will I know if I'm loosing something important in the conversion? Please note I've done a lot of research on this and cannot find what I need.

I'm aware of the backwards compatibility to open Visio 2013, Visio 2010, Visio 2007, Visio 2003 and Visio 2000 files and the Compatibility Mode feature. What I'm trying to get answered is this? When converting a.VSDX file to a.VSD file, how will I know if I lost something important that I might need to see and what specifically have I lost? Hello,.vsdx format use Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) based on XML and uses a.zip container for compacting all the drawing contents. You can view the contents of a VSDX file by renaming the extension to.zip and unzipping the file even if you do not have an application that supports the VSDX format. And opening a.vsdx will not loose any of the content or data when it is opened in another version other than Visio 2013, if the compatibility mode is On. As when I researched on this topic, I found that there is Compatibility mode in Visio which allows the user to view the file in the same format even if it is opened in another format.

You can check the following links for more info about it: Note:.vsdx is just an updated version introduced with Visio 2013 and this format has replaced two file formats i.e.vdx with XML format and.vsd with the binary format. Best Regards, Tej Pratap Shukla. A couple of additional thoughts on top of Tej's answer: He is correct that you are unlikely to lose data or content when a file is 'downgraded' from.vsdx to.vsd format.

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However, there are significant differences in the way that shape effects and themes were handled in.vsd documents vs. How they are handled in.vsdx files. That's the reason for the warning messages you received during the downgrade: Visio 2013 and 2016, both of which use the.vsdx file format, offer much more sophisticated shadows and effects such as reflections, bevels, etc.

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Consequently, you may lose some richness in appearance during the downgrade. In addition, themes (located on the Design tab) are implemented very differently in Visio 2013/2016. The converter does the best it can to find a similar.vsd theme to the one in the original.vsdx document, but there's no guarantee that shapes with themes will look identical. Having said all that, if the original.vsdx diagram doesn't use shape effects and uses simple or no themes, then you might not see any difference at all in the downgraded document.