VISIO APP how to download as desktop app

Orla Johnson 76

Bought Visio today but cant seem to locate how I download it as a desktop app, web interface only works and I'm not really keen on it. if you can be anyway way of help would appreciate it.

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Orla

Emily Hua-MSFT 27,636 Reputation points

2020-07-28T03:31:10.777+00:00

Is there any questions? If yes, please feel free to post back.
Emily Hua-MSFT 27,636 Reputation points

2020-08-05T05:13:36.01+00:00

I am checking the status of this issue. Do you have any update for it?
Attoti Bharath Krishna 106 Reputation points

2023-01-01T05:06:42.077+00:00

The MS office apps and Visio are such a pain. The website does not seem to want us to download anything!
Attoti Bharath Krishna 106 Reputation points

2023-01-01T05:06:50.173+00:00

The MS office apps and Visio are such a pain. The website does not seem to want us to download anything!
Anonymous

2023-05-03T02:07:35.08+00:00

why can't we just simply install the app! The web version doesn't have all the features!!
Ernest Olmos 0 Reputation points

2023-07-07T16:56:23.33+00:00

I have license code. But how do I download Visio pro 2019 desktop app?
Johny Modem 0 Reputation points

2024-03-28T22:07:08.84+00:00

Basically yu need to have a windows 365 account active. It can be a 1 month trial account. When you have account active you can "install desktop apps". When it has installed to your PC you can then start Visio and when it prompts you choose "I have a product key". Enter the product key you got when you bought Visio 21 and it will work from your PC without have to have an active Office 365. I think this is technically called the Plan2 license.
Muneeb Mushtaq 0 Reputation points

2024-08-19T15:37:38.82+00:00

https://admin.microsoft.com/account#installs

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CenterSpike 0 Reputation points

2024-05-22T19:09:32.0433333+00:00

I ran into this issue and found the answer -

If you have the Microsoft 365 subscription of Visio (plan 2), then go to https://portal.office.com/account#installs

If applicable you will see Visio, and a button for "Install Visio".

Clicking that downloads "OfficeSetup.exe", which is named exactly as a regular Microsoft Office Download, but it is indeed different, I opened it and Visio is now installing.
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Rob Coops 0 Reputation points

2024-08-14T15:20:24.3166667+00:00

This is inaccurate as you can (no longer not sure if this was different in the past) get the Visio 2 plan as a regular user it is only for businesses. When you are a business you can get the Visio 2 plan but this does not let you install the Visio application as the license is not assigned to a user. When you have gotten the Visio 2 plan you will have to assign the license to a user make sure that user is the one you sign in with when running the OfficeSetup.exe at which point it will actually install Visio.

Another correction the OfficeSetup.exe file is the same in both cases, the only thing that is that when checking your licenses with the Microsoft service it will find that you are now paying for the Visio license and it will install this as well.
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Rob Coops 0 Reputation points

2024-08-14T15:03:22.88+00:00

So I have been struggling with this for a bit, the multiple different options, with only one offering the actual Visio installation and then not being able to select the option that is advertised in this article...

Here is what I found, you do not get the option to buy Visio on a personal account only on a business account, please do not ask me why it is a Microsoft thing.
When you have a business account and you choose to pay for the Visio license that is what you get a Visio license. But that license is not assigned to any of your business users even if there is only a single business user in the organization. So in order to get the option mentioned here you will have to go into the administration portal and assign the license to the user that is supposed to install the Visio application. When that is done, log in as that user and this time you will see the option to install Visio... which by the way downloads the same installer as for the regular Office installation and will check your license with Microsoft just like before this time seeing that you also pay for Visio so it will install this as part of the Office installation.

Please do not ask me why this insanity is required or why Microsoft decided to produce a help document with only half the information required to answer the users questions. It is a very large organization that clearly has better things to do than to help paying users get what they pay for.
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