Retirement of Visio Data Visualizer Add-in for Microsoft Excel

The Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel will be retired: removed from the store on December 8, 2025, and its service shut down on March 2, 2026. Users must save existing diagrams as Visio files before then. Focus will shift to Visio Plan 2 and the Visio desktop app. Retirement of Visio Data Visualizer Add-in for Excel We’re retiring the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel to streamline diagramming experiences and focus development efforts on Visio Plan 2 and the Visio desktop app. This change aligns with our commitment to delivering more robust, data-connected diagramming capabilities through supported platforms. When this will happen: December 8, 2025: The Visio Data Visualizer add-in will be removed from the Excel add-in store, templates, and ribbon. March 2, 2026: The service powering the add-in will be shut down. Existing diagrams created with the add-in will no longer render or refresh. How this affects your organization: Who is affected: All Microsoft 365 users who use the Visio Data Visualizer add-in in Excel, and admins managing centralized deployment of Office add-ins. What will happen: Starting December 8, 2025, the add-in will be removed from the Excel add-in store, templates, and ribbon. Users will no longer be able to create new Data Visualizer diagrams using the add-in. By March 2, 2026, the service powering the add-in will be shut down. Existing Data Visualizer add-in diagrams embedded in Excel will no longer load or refresh after this date, though the underlying Excel table data will remain intact. In November, users will start seeing a business bar in the Data Visualizer add-in frame notifying them of the upcoming retirement. The business bar will include a link to a detailed, user-facing article explaining how to save their diagrams as Visio (.vsdx) files. What you can do to prepare: If your tenant does not use centralized deployment of add-ins, no action is required. The change will be applied automatically on the specified dates. If your tenant uses centralized deployment of add-ins in the Microsoft 365 admin center: Turn off the Data Visualizer add-in by December 8, 2025. After the service shuts […]

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