Microsoft Visio Introduction/Intermediate
Duration: 2 Days
Overview:
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Aspect Training’s Microsoft Visio Introduction training course will give you a good
working knowledge of Visio basics. You will feel more confident using Visio and
be able to able to create a diagram or a chart. Understanding and using some of
the built-in drawing and object manipulation functionality will enable you to progress
to creating concise and clear diagrams and charts. Structures that you create will
be easier to build, amend, read and will be professionally formatted.
You will feel more confident using Visio and be able to create technical layouts,
work flow & fishbone diagrams and many more advanced diagram types. Understanding
and using the built-in interoperability between your diagrams and data, such as
the database wizard, will allow for much more complexity. Finally you will learn
how to work with far more advanced custom shape designs.
Prerequisites:
Our Microsoft Visio introduction course is suitable for complete beginners to Microsoft
Visio.
Course Topics:
Getting Started
The Visio Drawing Window
Toolbars
Overview of Templates, Stencils and Shapes
Changing View Settings
Drawing Tools
Creating New Drawings
Drawing Closed Shapes
Drawing Open Shapes
Using the Freeform tool
Drawing Compound Lines
Finding Stencils and Shapes
Creating Basic Diagrams
Selection Techniques
Connecting Shapes
Moving and Deleting Shapes
Aligning Shapes
Distributing Shapes
Rotating Shapes
Grouping Shapes
Formatting Shapes
Shape formatting
Adding Text to Shapes
Formatting Text
Duplicating Shapes
Scaling and resizing Shapes
Using Themes (2007 version only)
Working with Pages
Inserting, Naming and Deleting Pages
Page and Printer Setup
Creating Background Pages
Inserting Headers and Footers
Building Diagrams
Creating Organisation Charts
Adding Multiple Shapes
Modifying Chart Layouts
Creating a Flowchart
Creating a Brainstorming Diagram
Using the Brainstorming Outline Window
Creating Technical Layouts
Understanding Layers
Creating, Removing and Renaming Layers
Setting Layer Properties
Controlling Shape Placement
Setting a Drawing Scale
Working with Building Plan Layouts
Drawing with Precision
Using Perspective
Working with Area Measurements
Exploring Advanced Diagrams
Create work flow diagrams
Create Fishbone (Cause and Effect) diagrams
Use Calendars, Gantt and PERT charts
Create easy-to-read maps and route directions
Diagramming and Data
Adding Shape Data
Creating Custom Properties
Generating Property Reports
Importing and Exporting Data
Working with Data Sources
Advanced Custom Shape Design
Creating New Shapes
Revising Existing Shapes
Locking and Protecting Shapes
Creating Custom Stencils
Adding Shapes to the Stencil
Saving the Stencil
