How to Create Timeline in Visio?

In this article, we will create a timeline in Visio. Actually, a timeline is a list of important events arranged in a proper order in which they happened and timelines are represented graphically by an actual line, and events are mentioned on a specific interval on which they should happen.

Also, we know that Visio is diagraming software and we can design flowcharts, org charts, network diagrams, and as well as timelines. We mostly use a horizontal line and all important points are mentioned on them.

Let's Get Started:

For creating a timeline in Visio go to the File menu then New. 

After clicking the New tab then we will see.

Now, we are moving to Categories. Then we will see Categories of all types then we will see.

In these categories, we can see.

1. Business
2. Engineering
3. Flowchart
4. General
5. Maps and Floor Plan
6. Network
7. Schedule
8. Software and Database

These are all categories in Visio. Actually, the timeline link from Schedule then we will go with Schedule then we will expand it.

The schedule has further four types

1. Calendar
2. Gantt Chart
3. PERT Chart
4. Timeline

Then we will click on the Timeline. Then we will see different types of predefined templates or we can go with a blank one. It depends upon us for which we can go.

If we are going with a blank diagram on the top left side of the templates then all basic shapes will be available in the Visio document. If we want to select the template then also we can see the shapes for a basic timeline on the left side of the Visio document in the Basic Shapes pane.

After selecting a template then we can see that a timeline is inserted into the Visio file and if we want to expand an interval in the timeline then we can expand it and also if we customize our interval into our dates then we can go with it.

Secondly, if we want to go with the blank template then we can select the blank template after that we can see that all types of shapes will be available in the Shapes pane.

Now we can drag and drop the required shapes from the Shapes pane.

For configuring the Timeline we can see that we have to insert the Date and time for starting and ending of the timeline for a project.

When we add data and time then we can see equal intervals for each value.

And there are many options for customizing the timeline for each interval and we can also add descriptions for each interval separately in the timeline in Visio.

In this way, we can create a timeline from the template and customize it according to our requirements.