With Visio Viewer, you can open, view, or print Visio drawings, even if you don't have Visio installed. You cannot, however, edit, save, or create a new Visio drawing with Visio Viewer. For that, you need a full version of Visio installed. VSD Viewer is an easy-to-use software to view VSD files, it comes with some handy viewing features. Some of the handy features of Visio software are: You can use this tool to view multi-page VSD file with a very good quality for viewing it. It provides “ Copy to Clip ” feature which you can use to copy image from a VSD file. Navigate to the OneDrive for work or school folder or SharePoint in Microsoft 365 document library. If necessary, upload the Visio diagram (.vsdx). For more information, see Upload files and folders to a document library. Visio Viewer is a freeware that you can use to Open, view and print any Microsoft Office Visio(VSD) document. It's a quick and convenient way to view Visio files on your computer. Visio Viewer from FoxPDF lets you open, view Visio VSD and Rtf files as well as TXT files and it doesn't require Microsoft Visio. It can run as a desktop.

Occasionally, I have the need to open a Visio diagram but don't have a need to create or modify them. So, the Visio viewer seemed to be an ideal option. However, after installing the viewer (I tried this with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions), I was still unable to open a Visio file.

The best I could get was Windows asking what I would like to use to open the file and Visio viewer wasn't an option. After drilling down to find the executable file, I found the viewer (VPREVIEW.EXE) would display a message saying 'This program can only run from within another program” when I tried to execute it. I discovered the Visio viewer is designed to use ActiveX controls within Internet Explorer. Since I had disabled IE 11 on my system (using the 'Turn Windows features on or off'), the viewer had nowhere to execute since Edge doesn't support ActiveX.

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I found a Chrome plug-in in the Chrome web store that will allow me to view Visio files from inside Chrome. However, it requires me to click on a tag in the Chrome header and then drag the Visio file into the Chrome window.

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So, the alternatives appear to be to enable IE 11 or use a Chrome plug-in.