Visio Introduction/Intermediate (all versions)

This course is intended for people who wish to learn fundamental skills while creating several types of diagrams using Microsoft Visio Professional.  As you create drawings, you will learn techniques to drag and manipulate Visio master shapes, create connections between shapes, and apply styles to shapes, text, and pages as well as create charts from imported data and edit custom properties to store additional information in your diagrams.

It is assumed that users have little or no knowledge of Microsoft Visio.

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the various types of drawings you can create using Visio and navigate in a Visio document
• Drag shapes from Visio stencils and resize, rotate, align, and transform them
• Increase your productivity with smart features, such as numbering shapes automatically, duplicating shapes quickly, and grouping and aligning
• Create a flowchart or a cross-functional flowchart
• Create charts manually or generate one from a text file 
• Create a plan to scale.
   


 

Visio Advanced

This course is intended for people who wish to expand on their knowledge of Visio.   You will work with many advanced features, including using the drawing tools, creating and working with custom stencils and templates, and sharing your Visio drawings with other applications.

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Open and manipulate toolbars and stencil windows in the work area
• Change background settings to enhance specific drawings
• Use the drawing tools and Operation command features to create new custom shapes
• Integrate both simple and complex custom shapes in a drawing
• Create new masters in a stencil and edit masters
• Use the Document stencil to quickly take inventory of all the shapes used in a drawing
• Create a new custom template and use it to quickly create a drawing
• Create and use styles to quickly format multiple shapes in a drawing
• Use layers to organise and control shapes in a drawing
• Link a Visio drawing within a Microsoft Word document and update any changes
• Link shapes in a drawing to information contained in an external database
• Convert a drawing to a Web page
• Use several techniques for preparing a drawing for printing