Microsoft Visio 2003 Professional Level 2

Course objectives:
-Open and manipulate toolbars and stencil windows in the work area
-Change background settings to enhance specific drawings
-Use the drawing tools and operation command features to create new custom shapes
-Integrate both simple and complex custom shapes in a drawing
-Create new masters in a stencil and edit masters
-Use the document stencil to quickly take inventory of all the shapes used in a drawing
-Create a new custom template and use it to quickly create a drawing
-Create and use styles to quickly format multiple shapes in a drawing
-Use layers to organise and control shapes in a drawing
-Link a Visio drawing within a Microsoft Word document and update any changes
-Link shapes in a drawing to information contained in an external database
-Convert a drawing to a web page
-Use several techniques for preparing a drawing for printing
Course content:
Customising Visio
-Working and opening toolbars
-Dragging and dropping toolbars
-Adding commands to toolbars
-Working with windows and stencil windows
-Merging Visio windows
Using the drawing tools
-Drawing basics - closed shapes, lines and arcs, segmented lines and reshaping lines
-Advanced drawing techniques - drawing with precision
-Using operation commands
Custom shapes
-Using and creating a custom shape
-Using custom shapes in a drawing
-ShapeSheet spreadsheet
Advanced stencil techniques
-Custom stencils and creating a new stencil
-Adding custom shapes to a stencil
-Customising stencil masters
-Editing master properties
-Formatting a master in a stencil
-Adding and directing connection points
-Applying behaviours to a custom shape
-The document stencil and retrieving shapes
Templates, styles, and layers
-Working with and creating a new template
-Using a custom template
-Formatting and linking shapes
-Defining new styles, applying and editing styles
-Adding links to shapes
-Layers - viewing and manipulating layers
Sharing your work
-Object linking and embedding
-Placing a Visio drawing in Word
-Working with external data
-Preparing shapes in the document stencil
-Using the database wizard
-Creating HTML documents
-Preparing a drawing for the web
-Printing techniques
-Using the print preview feature
-Working with page breaks
-Connecting to data sources
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