Microsoft
Visio Course Overview |
 Microsoft
Visio allows you to create flow
diagrams, organisational charts,
network diagrams, scaled drawings...well
the list goes on. This course
introduces you to the main functions
in the application as well as
giving you training in some
of the main templates and shapes
that you are llikely to find
useful.
Versions 97 - 2007 are covered.
To accompany the instructor
lead training, each delegate
will receive manuals and practice,
step-by-step exercises. This
will provide an excellent source
of information and on-going
self study once the training
has been completed.
The course outline listed is
only a suggestion and can be
altered to reflect your business
needs. You could for example
request a half day course on
Visio and fill the rest of the
day with a PowerPoint course.
For pricing click
here
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| Visio Shapes |
- Working with stencils
- Adding a shape to a drawing
- Selecting a shape or multiple
shapes
- Moving shapes
- Copying shapes
- Resizing shapes
- Deleting a shape
- Adjusting shapes using control
handles
- Adjusting shapes using control
points
- Adjusting shapes using vertices
- Rotating shapes
- Eccentricity points on Arcs
- Connection Points
- Searching for shapes
- Visio Extras
- Colour schemes
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| Working
with Shapes |
- Adding text to a shape
- Adding freestanding text
- Editing text
- Copying text
- Moving a text box
- Text block
- Resizing a text box
- Aligning text
- Format text
- Adjusting text block Margins
- Creating tabs in a text
block
- Bulleted points
- Numbered points
- Paragraph formatting - indentation,
line spacing, paragrpah spacing
- Text formatting
- Change background colour
- Using the Format Painter
- Rotating Shapes
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| Connecting
Shapes |
- Connection Points
- Glue Types
- Changing a connection point
- Connectors that cross paths
- Creating different connection
types
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| Measurement
and Placement Tools |
- Dynamic Grid
- Drawing Scale
- Snapping objects
- Ruler subdivisions
- Alignment and distribution
- Size and position window
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| Creating
and Customising Shapes |
- Union
- Combine
- Fragment
- Intersect
- Subtract
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| Visio Pages |
- Adding/deletin/moving pages
- Background pages
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| Visio Layers |
- Add a Layer
- Remove a Layer
- Rename a Layer
- Hiding a Layer
- Assigning Shapes to Layers
- Determining which layer
a shape is assigned to
- Locking a Layer
- Colouring Layers
- Selecting Layers to Print
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| Stencils |
- The Document Stencil
- Creating a Custom Stencil
- Add custom shapes to a stencil
- Naming Master Shapes on
a Stencil
- Deleting Master Shapes
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| Visio Templates |
- Visio templates
- Creating your own templates
- Adding stencils to templates
- Creating styles for templates
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| Shape Properties |
- Adding Custom Properties
- Editing Custom Properties
- Editing Custom Properties
for a shape on a custom stencil
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| Reports |
- Custom Reports
- Update a Report
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| Printing |
- Print Preview
- Headers and Footers
- Print Gridlines
- Printing Part of a Drawing
- Adjusting Print Scale
- Setting shapes not to print
- Centering the drawing before
Printing
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| Using Visio
with other Office Programmes |
- Inserting Charts
- Creating an Organisational
Chart from a List in Excel
- Linking
- Embedding
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