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Visio Training:Introduction

Visio Training:Introduction

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Visio Training:Introduction Overview

This course teaches the basic functions and features of Visio Professional. Students will learn how to use stencils, scale and resize objects, draw basic shapes, manipulate compound lines, and distribute and group objects. They will also learn how to create diagrams, work with text, format shapes and lines, and apply a background page.

Visio Training:Introduction Course Outline

 

  • Unit 1: The Visio environment

    • Topic A: Visio basics
      • Creating a drawing
      • Examining the work area
      • Using Visio Help
    • Topic B: Navigating in Visio
      • Opening a Visio drawing
      • Changing view settings
      • Navigating among drawing pages
    • Topic C: Using windows and stencils
      • Manipulating stencils
    • Topic D: Manipulating objects
      • Selecting and moving objects
      • Scaling and resizing an object
      • Saving and closing a drawing

  • Unit 2: Drawing tools

    • Topic A: Basic shapes and lines
      • Drawing basic shapes
      • Creating lines and arcs
      • Reshaping an arc
    • Topic B: Compound lines
      • Creating a freeform line
      • Creating a compound line with the Line and Arc tools
      • Creating a compound line with the Pencil tool
      • Manipulating compound lines
    • Topic C: Editing objects
      • Duplicating objects
      • Aligning objects
      • Distributing objects
      • Grouping objects
      • Rotating an object

  • Unit 3: Basic diagrams

    • Topic A: Planning your diagram
      • Discussing diagram planning
    • Topic B: Creating a basic diagram
      • Adding shapes
      • Connecting shapes
      • Using connector shapes
    • Topic C: Working with text
      • Creating and editing a text block
      • Adding paragraph text
      • Adding text to shapes
      • Adding text to connectors
      • Adjusting shape text
      • Rotating text
    • Topic D: Working with organization charts
      • Creating an organization chart
      • Changing the layout of an organization chart

  • Unit 4: Formatting drawings

    • Topic A: Formatting text
      • Formatting text by using toolbars
      • Formatting text by using the Text dialog box
    • Topic B: Formatting text blocks
      • Formatting a text block
      • Applying paragraph formatting to a text block
      • Adding bullets to a text block
    • Topic C: Formatting shapes and lines
      • Formatting a shape
      • Customizing a shape
      • Using the Fill and Shadow dialog boxes
      • Formatting multiple shapes
      • Adding fill and line attributes to a text block

  • Unit 5: Working with pages

    • Topic A: Creating and setting up a drawing
      • Creating a drawing and setting file properties
      • Defining printer settings and page size
      • Setting page properties
    • Topic B: Working with background pages
      • Creating a background page
      • Adding fields to a background page
      • Applying a background page
      • Editing a background page
    • Topic C: Working with links
      • Adding a page link
      • Adding a hyperlink
      • Linking multiple files to a shape
      • Linking to an Excel file
    • Topic D: Printing diagrams
      • Adding a header in Print Preview
      • Printing a diagram

  • Unit 6: Network and brainstorming diagrams

    • Topic A: Network diagrams
      • Using topology shapes in a network diagram
      • Adding a control handle
      • Adding and connecting topology shapes
      • Moving shape text
    • Topic B: Rack diagrams
      • Creating a rack diagram
    • Topic C: Brainstorming diagrams
      • Creating a brainstorming diagram
      • Exporting a brainstorming diagram to an XML file
      • Importing XML data into a brainstorming diagram

  • Unit 7: Introduction to advanced features

    • Topic A: Advanced layout and connection techniques
      • Using guides
      • Adding connection points
      • Selecting objects by type
      • Connecting shapes to new connection points
      • Changing Snap & Glue settings
    • Topic B: Custom properties
      • Adding custom properties to shapes
      • Creating custom property sets
      • Applying user-defined custom properties
      • Topic C: Reporting
      • Creating a report
      • Running a report
      • Updating a report
      • Formatting a Visio Table Report shape

 

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