Visio 2010 Introduction

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
  • Add text to 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
  • Number shapes
  • Connect shapes using connector tool, connector shapes, and AutoConnect
  • Use the text tool
  • Format shapes and text, and apply a theme
  • Create a cross-functional flowchart
  • Add and remove swimlanes
  • Resize and move swimlanes
  • Add separators and shapes to a cross‑functional flowchart
  • 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 shapes in an  organization chart
  • Create hyperlinks between synchronized copies
  • Add custom property data to a shape and define and display new custom properties
  • Create an Organization Chart using data in an Excel file
  • Import a picture into an organization chart
  • Export data from an Organization Chart

What Participants Receive

Each participant receives a guide containing step-by-step instructions.