Microsoft Visio Classes

• Microsoft Visio: Getting Started with Microsoft Visio

• Microsoft Visio: Useful Features in Microsoft Visio

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Microsoft Visio: Getting Started with Microsoft Visio

3 Hours

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• What is Visio?

• Creating a new diagram

• The Visio interface

• Important terminology

• Getting help

• Modifying the workspace

• Shape views

• Floating and docking stencil windows

• Displaying and using the Favorites stencil

• Using drawing tools

• Using the pencil tool to create your own shapes from existing shapes

• Changing the zoom percentage

• Magnification tricks

• Selecting, resizing, formatting, and modifying a shape

• Adding text to a shape and formatting text

• Rotating shapes with or without text

• Adding ScreenTips to shapes

• Adding a comment to a shape

• Changing a shape’s line and fill

• Using themes 

• Moving and copying shapes

• Using the dynamic grid

• Working with the Grid

• Aligning and distributing shapes

• Dragging guides off of the rulers

• Grouping and ungrouping shapes 

• Changing the order of shapes

• Connecting shapes

• Ungluing a connector from a shape

• Switching from any tool back to the pointer tool

• Using AutoConnect

• Changing the shape of connectors

• Moving a connector around an object

• Resetting a connector

• Adding arrows and other shapes to the beginning and/or end of connectors

• Creating and using custom connectors

• Working with line jumps

• Creating, changing, moving, and formatting callouts

• Determining the width, height, and angle of an object

• Creating containers

• Using a shape to access another page

• Accessing a page with a hyperlink

• Working with pages

• Printing a drawing

• Changing the drawing scale

 

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Microsoft Visio: Useful Features in Microsoft Visio

3 Hours

It is highly recommended that you take Microsoft Visio: Getting Started with Microsoft Visio or have equivalent training or experience working with Visio.

 

• Creating custom stencils

• Creating custom master shapes

• Adding data fields to shapes

• Creating and using custom templates

• Saving a Visio diagram in different file formats

• Using dimensioning tools

• Creating, assigning, and customizing layers

• Working with ShapeSheets

• Presentation Mode

• Exporting snippets of a diagram to PowerPoint

• 3D shapes

• Discovering a shape’s abilities and behaviors

• Inserting backgrounds, borders, and titles

• Inserting drawings in other Microsoft Office files

• Creating shape reports

• Accessing the Drawing Window Explorer

• Creating a brainstorming diagram

• Creating an organization chart with Excel

 

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