Course Length
Full day
Prerequisites
Windows Introduction or equivalent experience
Course Description
Visio allows you to quickly and effectively communicate ideas through drawings and diagrams. In this full-day class, participants will learn the basics of the Visio drawing program to create powerful and understandable drawings such as flowcharts and organization charts.
Course Topics
- Perform Visio Basics
- Change the view, use zoom, pan and zoom, navigate between pages, and rename pages
- Work with the shapes window
- Navigate between open stencils, open additional stencils, and float stencils
- Add shapes to a drawing
- Select, move, resize, duplicate, search for, and delete shapes
- Use the Size & Position window
- Use the drawing tools to draw lines, arcs, curves, open, and closed shapes
- Rotate, align, distribute, and group shapes
- Create a basic flowchart
- Use the Stamp tool, number shapes, connect shapes, and use the text tool
- Format shapes and text, center drawing on page, and apply a color scheme
- Create a cross-functional flowchart
- Add, resize, move, and remove functional bands
- Add separators, new pages, and an off-page reference shape
- Change print setup and page setup options
- Work with foreground and background pages
- Add headers and footers
- Insert graphics and fields
- Create links and hyperlinks
- Create an organization chart manually and using the wizard
- Change organization chart layout, show divider lines, change the shape order, and change reporting relationships
- Add an organization chart title, hide subordinate shapes, change position type, change text format, change shape display, and change spacing between shapes
- Create a synchronized copy of organization chart shapes
- Create hyperlinks between synchronized copies
- Add custom property data to a shape and define and display new custom properties
- Import a picture into an organization chart
What Participants Receive
Each participant receives a guide containing step-by-step instructions and a laminated reference card.
