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 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 layered architectural diagrams
- Connecting Visio to a database to illustrate its structure
- Linking Visio shapes to database records
- Mapping Web site structure
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 plug-in with Internet Explorer
Illustrating the Web site structure
- Mapping a complete Web site into Visio
- Identifying faults in Web sites
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