Description

You will learn the basic concepts for creating flowcharts, cross-functional flowcharts, and organization charts by utilizing Visio’s drawing features. This course includes learning the basics for using and creating shapes, printing drawings, creating custom stencils and also many timesaving techniques and shortcuts designed to increase your productivity.

Content

Learning Your Way Around

·        Vision Professional overview

·        Starting a new file

·        The interface

·        Standard file types

·        Changing view settings

·        Navigating pages

·        Opening additional stencils

·        Selection techniques

·        Scaling and resizing objects

Basic Network Diagramming

·        Creating background pages

·        Importing graphics

·        Using typology shapes

·        Adding detail pages

·        Linking diagrams

·        Creating hyperlinks

·        Printing your charts

Basic Techniques

·        Drawing tools overview

·        Drawing closed shapes

·        Creating open shapes

·        Drawing compound lines

·        Drawing with precision

·        Duplicating objects quickly

·        Aligning objects

·        Distributing objects

·        Quick analysis of connected drawings

·        Rotating objects

Diagramming and data

·        Using guides

·        Adding connection points

·        Selecting object types

·        Connecting shapes

·        Setting layout and routing options

·        Setting snap and glue options

·        Adding shape data

·        Setting unique custom properties

·        Generating property data reports

·        Displaying custom properties in shapes

·        Working with spreadsheet data

Creating a basic flow diagram

·        Flowcharting tips

·        Understanding master shapes

·        Placing shapes

·        Connecting shapes

·        Basic text features

·        Adding text to shapes

·        Adjusting text blocks

·        Formatting basics

·        Formatting text

·        Formatting text blocks

·        Formatting shapes

·        Formatting lines

·        Adding a background shape

·        Dynamic connectors

Creating custom stencils

·        Creating custom stencils

·        Creating new shapes

·        Adding shapes to the stencil

·        Saving the stencil

Objectives:

Upon completion of this class you should be able to:

· Identify Visio file types

· Understand the workings of the drawing window

· Draw basic objects and reshape them

· Import graphics into a drawing

· Identify master shapes and stencils

· Create custom properties for shapes

· Create basic flowcharts

· Create cross-functional flowcharts

· Create organization charts

· Know how to use the Page Layout Wizard

· Know how to use the Organization Chart Wizard

· Understand how to create organization charts from a spreadsheet

· Setup spreadsheets for company data to be converted to organization charts

· Print files

· Create custom stencils