Microsoft Visio Professional 2003 Level 1

Course objectives:

• Identify the various types of drawings you can create using Visio
• Drag shapes from Visio stencils and resize, rotate, align, and transform them
• Increase your productivity with smart features such as numbering shapes automatically and duplicating shapes quickly
• Create a directional map
• Quickly locate any master shape within the stencil libraryCreate an organisation chart manually or generate one from a text file
• Create a flowchart or a crossfunctional flowchart
• Apply titles, borders, backgrounds, and colour schemes to enhance Visio documents
• Create an office floor plan to scale

Course content:

An overview of Visio

• Visio documents and templates
• Elements of the Visio window
• Visio navigation
• Scrolling and zooming
• Using the pan and zoom window
• Anchor and autohide

Basic skills: creating a directional map

• Using stencils
• Dragging shapes from stencils
• Managing stencils and finding shapes
• Saving files
• Drawing and viewing drawing properties
• Manipulating, rotating, copying and resizing shapes
• Connecting roads and using connector roads
• Changing road thickness
• Adding and editing text
• Adding text to shapes
• Rotating text separately
• Formatting shape text
• Adding standalone text
• Stacking order, changing the stacking order
• Completing the directional map

Basic diagram skills

• Enhancing productivity
• Hiding connection points and the grid
• Repeat duplication
• Manual and automatic numbering with the number shapes macro
• Managing, grouping, aligning and distributing shapes
• Applying styles and changing line styles
• Text and fill colours
• Creating custom colours
• Adding patterns and drop shadows
• Applying styles
• Completing the block diagramFlowcharts
• Connecting shapes and on drop
• Cloning shapes
• Pointtopoint connections
• Routing connectors
• Linecurve and using extra connectors
• Page styles
• Using borders and titles
• Renaming shapes
• Adding and editing backgrounds
• Applying colour schemes
• Crossfunctional flowcharts and setup
• Filling out a crossfunctional flowchart

Organisation charts

• Creating an organisation chart
• Adding subordinate and multiple shapes
• Arranging subordinates
• Editing and adding a custom property
• Organisation chart data wizard
• Creating an organisation chart from data
• Navigating a multipage organisation chart
• Hiding subordinates
• Breaking down an organisation chart
• Navigating linked pages
• Changing styles and spacing

Floor plan

• Creating an office layout
• Adding space and walls
• Drawing scale and to scale
• Adding doors and windows
• Resetting the ruler zero point
• Design your office

Review of Programme

Other Recommended Programmes

• Microsoft Visio Professional Level 2