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Hands-On Visio: Designing Effective Visual Solutions

 
Course: 194   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 2 Days
 
 

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 relational databases
  • Integrate Visio with the Web to map Web sites and create Web page images

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 Visio built-in 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 & creating custom stencils
  • Importing Excel data to create organisation charts
  • Creating flowcharts with intelligent routing
  • Building a time line using Microsoft Project data
  • Embedding & linking diagrams in MS Office documents
  • Creating layered architectural diagrams
  • Connecting Visio to a database to illustrate its structure
  • Linking Visio shapes to database records
  • Mapping Web site structure

Related Courses

  • 319 Technical Writing Comprehensive Introduction
  • 219 Business and Report Writing
  • 195 Power Excel: Analysing Data
  • 196 Introduction to Statistics
  • 345 Delivering Dynamic Presentations
  • 470 Developing a Web Site
  • 487 Designing and Building Great Web Pages
  • 216 UML 2 Comprehensive Introduction
  • 221 Writing for the Web

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

Upcoming Dates

24 - 25 Nov, 2008
London
2 - 3 Mar, 2009
London
26 - 27 May, 2009
London
7 - 8 Sep, 2009
London

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Hands-On Visio: Designing Effective Visual Solutions

 
Course: 194   Type: Hands-On Training   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 time lines 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

Grouping related diagram elements with layers

  • Distributing shapes across layers
  • Protecting shapes by locking layers

Documenting IT Projects

Commonly used IT templates

  • UML
  • Windows XP User Interface
  • Network diagrams

Illustrating database structures

  • 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

Applying Visio Web Tools

Presenting Visio diagrams on a Web site

  • Saving diagrams in multiple formats
  • Static image format (GIF, JPEG, PNG)
  • Deploying Visio Viewer plugin with Internet Explorer

Illustrating the Web site structure

  • Mapping a complete Web site into Visio
  • Identifying faults in Web sites
 
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Hands-On Visio: Designing Effective Visual Solutions Tuition

 
Course: 194   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 2 Days   PMI: 11
 
 

Course 194 Tuition

£ 1,095Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
£ 49010-Day Training Pass
£ 995Flex-Training Pass
£ 1,31410-Training Vouchers
£ 1,4045-Training Vouchers
£ 985Alumni Gold Tuition

Your Course Fee Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

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