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Hands-On Visio®: Designing Effective Visual Solutions

 
Course: 194   Duration: 2 Days   PMI: 11
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Create professional diagrams for a wide range of applications with Visio
  • Apply the built-in features of Visio, such as stencils, templates and connectors
  • Develop diagrams to illustrate enterprise structure, workflow and scheduling
  • Design detailed technical drawings for architectural and information technology purposes
  • Link Visio diagrams to data sources
  • Leverage Visio to create data graphics

Course Benefits

Microsoft Visio allows you to easily create a broad range of business and technical diagrams applicable to any organisation. In this course, you learn to use the built-in Visio templates and stencils to create sophisticated diagrams. You also learn how to incorporate Visio diagrams in Microsoft Office applications, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.

Who Should Attend

Individuals who want to create diagrams and present data that has a professional look and feel. Those who need to integrate Visio with other applications to automate the creation and maintenance of diagrams will find this course especially useful. Familiarity with Microsoft Office is helpful.

Hands-On Training

You gain experience through extensive hands-on exercises and an evolving case study. Exercises include:
  • Drawing with basic tools and creating custom stencils
  • Importing Excel data to create organisation charts
  • Creating flowcharts with intelligent routing
  • Building a timeline using Microsoft Project data
  • Embedding and linking diagrams in MS Office documents
  • Creating room and office layouts
  • Connecting Visio to a database to illustrate its structure
  • Linking Visio shapes to data records
  • Designing a Pivot Diagram

Related Courses

  • 319 Technical Writing Comprehensive Introduction
  • 195 Power Excel: Analysing Data
  • 345 Delivering Dynamic Presentations
  • 470 Developing a Website
  • 972 Microsoft Office: Streamlining Tasks for Productivity
  • 1361 Excel Introduction

 
Visio is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. PMI R.E.P. logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
   Hands-On Visio: Effective Visual Solutions

Upcoming Dates

Live online classroom training.Attend highlighted events in person or live, online via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.

UK Dates

6-7 JunLondon
19-20 NovLondon

US East Coast Dates

9-10 AprWashington, DC*
23-24 AprNew York*
21-22 MayWashington, DC*

*New York and Washington, DC Courses – Available online with a run time of 2pm to 9pm BST.

For AnyWare enrolments, please register at least 10 days prior to the start of the course.


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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Hands-On Visio®: Designing Effective Visual Solutions

 
Course: 194   Duration: 2 Days   PMI: 11
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction to Visio

  • The strengths of Visio
  • The role of Visio in the Microsoft Office suite
  • Visio terminology

Visio Fundamentals

Basic drawing tools

  • Rectangle
  • Ellipse
  • Line
  • Arc
  • Freeform
  • Pencil
  • Resizing and rotating shapes
  • Aligning and distributing shapes
  • Distinguishing between closed and open shapes

Navigating the drawing page

  • Panning and zooming
  • Viewing diagram details with multiple windows

Saving time with stencils and templates

  • Maximising reuse of drawing elements
  • Creating customised shapes, stencils and templates
  • Previewing built-in templates using the Diagram Gallery

Annotating diagrams

  • Adding and formatting diagram text
  • Moving text with the Text Block tool

Linking shapes with connectors

  • Applying intelligent routing between shapes
  • Connection strategies: point-to-point or shape-to-shape

Developing Business Process Diagrams

Visualising organisation structure

  • Illustrating enterprise hierarchies with organisation charts
  • Automating diagram creation with the Organisation Chart Wizard

Describing workflow

  • Identifying flowchart shapes and their meanings
  • Capturing sequences of tasks and decisions with flowcharts

Documenting project schedules

  • Importing schedule information from Microsoft Project
  • Preparing project timelines for use in presentations

Incorporating Visio diagrams in Microsoft Office applications

  • Linking to diagrams to enable active sharing
  • Embedding diagrams to preserve their current state
  • Inserting subsections of a diagram

Creating Architectural Diagrams

Visualising workspace layouts

  • Configuring Visio for scaled drawings
  • Mapping out office and home floor plans

Manipulating architectural diagrams

  • Converting edges to walls
  • Managing space sizes with guides

Documenting IT Projects

Commonly used IT templates

  • UML
  • Windows XP User Interface
  • Network diagrams
  • Illustrating database structures

Inserting hyperlinks and the importance of shape names

  • The importance of database schema
  • Reverse-engineering diagrams with the Database Wizard

Interacting with External Data Sources

Defining and managing shape data

  • Locating shape data in ShapeSheets
  • Generating reports

Linking drawing shapes with data

  • Mapping ShapeSheet entries to database fields using the Database Wizard
  • Modifying the database from a drawing

Managing Data Graphics

Creating data graphics

  • Defining data graphics in the context of Visio
  • Advantages of using data graphics
  • Displaying external data on the data graphic
  • Modifying the data graphics to convey information effectively
 
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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Hands-On Visio®: Designing Effective Visual Solutions

 
Course: 194   Duration: 2 Days   PMI: 11
 
 
Course Fees
£ 1,225Standard Fee
Fee with a Savings Plan
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  • Team workshops
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  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
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