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Visio Training: Advanced

Visio Training: Advanced

Visio Training: Advanced Schedule

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Visio Training: Advanced Overview

This course builds on the concepts and skills taught in Visio introductory course. Students will learn how to create and assign layers, work with themes and styles, customize stencil shapes, compare organization charts, and create PERT and Gantt charts. They will also learn how to integrate Visio with other Office programs, generate a Web site map, and draw a system diagram.

Visio Training: Advanced Course Prerequisites

  • Have attended the Visio Introduction course, or have equivalent knowledge of the topics covered in the Visio Introduction course.

Visio Training: Advanced Course Outline

  • Unit 1: Tracking project work

    • Topic A: Managing a project
      • Saving a baseline plan
    • Topic B: Updating the progress of tasks
      • Updating the percent complete of a task
      • Updating actual start and finish dates
      • Updating tasks that are in progress
      • Updating the actual work performed on a task
      • Saving an interim plan
    • Topic C: Observing project progress
      • Displaying the Earned Value table
      • Viewing progress in Network Diagram view

  • Unit 2: Analyzing and adjusting the plan

    • Topic A: Analyzing the plan
      • Viewing project statistics
      • Displaying slippage and slack in a plan
    • Topic B: Rescheduling tasks
      • Splitting a task
      • Delaying resource work
      • Assigning overtime

  • Unit 3: Formatting and reporting

    • Topic A: Formatting a project file
      • Modifying a bar style
      • Formatting a timescale
    • Topic B: Using drawing tools
      • Using the Drawing toolbar
    • Topic C: Printing views and reports
      • Printing the current view as a report
      • Printing a report
    • Topic D: Customizing reports
      • Creating a custom report
      • Creating a Crosstab report
    • Topic E: Visual reports
      • Creating a visual report

  • Unit 4: Customizing the project environment

    • Topic A: Creating custom views
      • Creating a custom Network Diagram view
      • Creating a combination view
    • Topic B: Creating macros
      • Creating a macro
      • Running a macro
    • Topic C: Creating a toolbar and a menu
      • Creating a toolbar
      • Deleting a toolbar
      • Creating a new menu
      • Deleting a menu
    • Topic D: Creating a custom table
      • Creating a custom table

  • Unit 5: Managing multiple projects

    • Topic A: Consolidating and sharing projects
      • Consolidating project files
      • Linking tasks across projects
      • Assigning project and task priorities
      • Making an existing filter global
      • Sharing a filter between projects
    • Topic B: Sharing resources across projects
      • Sharing resources from another project

  • Unit 6: Project communications

    • Topic A: Communicating among a project team
      • Discussing Microsoft Project Server
      • Sending task assignment requests
      • Sending status requests
      • Sending schedule notes
    • Topic B: Working with hyperlinks
      • Adding a hyperlink

  • Unit 7: Exchanging project data

    • Topic A: Importing data
      • Importing data from a Microsoft Excel workbook
      • Importing data from a Microsoft Access database
    • Topic B: Exporting data
      • Exporting data to a Microsoft Excel workbook
      • Saving data to a Microsoft Access database
    • Topic C: Copying data
      • Copying a Gantt chart to a Microsoft Word document
      • Copying task sheet information to a Microsoft Excel worksheet

 

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