Advanced Microsoft Visio 2003

Objectives

To learn to use Visio to create schematic diagrams and other drawings in the most time efficient and straightforward manner. The course will emphasise the use of templates and stencils for consistency and speed. Following this thorough introduction to the Visio working environment, delegates will be able to get straight on with creating their own work.


Pre-requisites:

Experience of the Windows operating system or previous attendance on the equivalent training course.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Creating a Cross Functional Flowchart


· Add File Properties to a drawing
· Change the Page Setup of a drawing
· Add background pages to a drawing
· Create a custom field for a shape
· Copying shapes
· Adding guides & aligning objects to it
· Adjust one guide to move a shape
· Align a group of shapes
· Add text to lines
· Link Pages using a shape
· Add a hyperlink to a page
· Create a dynamic connectors between shapes
· Use the page layout wizard to add titles and borders


Sharing your Work


· Place one Visio chart into Word
· Resize one pasted object in Word
· Create one linked object within Word
· Use the Text box properties in Word to change the look of an object
· Edit a Visio object from within Word
· Use drag and drop between Word and Visio to copy an object
· Convert a drawing to HTML
· Add a Visio drawing to a PowerPoint presentation
· Use the local stencil to change shapes






Custom Shape Design


· Creating new shapes
· Add connection points to a shape
· Use the SmartShape wizard to add functionality to a shape
· Create a custom stencil and add a master shape to it


Drawings and Data


· Use and add Custom properties
· Use the Custom Properties Editor to add an additional property
· Create a report from the Custom Properties of a shape
· Update a report created using custom properties
· Adding text notes to a shape
· Connect a series of shapes to a database using the database wizard


Advanced Custom Shape Design


· Use the Pencil tool to reshape a drawn object
· Adding and removing vertex points
· Protect a shape
· Assign a double clickk action to a shape


Layers


· Describe the different layer properties
· Assign a shape to a layer
· Create a new layer
· Set layer properties