Although this capability exists, it is not always necessary to have bi-directional updating and refreshing, and indeed I wrote an article a while ago about using a database as a read-only source for Data Visualizer for Visio Pro for Office 365 – Part 2. This feature does include two-way updates, so the user can either update the source table in Excel or the target diagram in Visio, and then refresh the other.

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