Duration
1 day
Course Overview
The smart way to learn Microsoft Visio 2013—one step at a time!
Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create professional-looking business and technical diagrams with Visio 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes downloadable practice files and companion eBook.
Discover how to:
Improve organizational insight with dynamic visuals
Create a wide range of business process and system diagrams
Use helpful wizards to make charts or build them by hand
Enhance the look of your diagrams with themes and quick styles
Add hyperlinks, pictures, and data-driven graphics
Collaborate on diagrams and publish them on the web
Course Outline
- 1. A Visual Orientation to a Visual Product
- Identifying the editions of Visio 2013
- Identifying new features of Visio 2013
- Working with the ribbon
- Getting started with Visio 2013
- Exploring the Visio ribbon
- Understanding tool tabs and add-in tabs
- Minimizing and restoring the Visio ribbon
- Understanding shapes, masters, stencils, and templates
- Exploring the drawing window
- Managing the Shapes window
- Panning and zooming in Visio
- Key points
- 2. Creating a New Diagram
- Using basic shapes and the Dynamic Grid
- Selecting shapes
- Copying, pasting, and duplicating shapes
- Positioning shapes with rulers and guides
- Resizing and repositioning shapes
- Connecting shapes with lines
- Connecting shapes with dynamic connectors
- Identifying 1-D shapes and types of glue
- Using AutoConnect and Quick Shapes
- Using AutoAdd and AutoDelete
- Replacing shapes
- Key points
- 3. Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings
- Adding text to shapes
- Creating and formatting text boxes
- Orienting shapes on the page
- Orienting shape text
- Positioning shape text
- Adding ScreenTips and comments
- Using shape data
- Inserting fields: the basics
- Grouping shapes
- Inserting pictures
- Understanding and using layers
- Managing pages and page setup
- Working with background pages and borders
- Key points
- 4. Creating Flowcharts and Organization Charts
- Selecting a flowchart type
- Creating flowcharts
- Adding labels to flowcharts
- Understanding swimlane diagrams
- Creating swimlane diagrams
- Understanding organization charts
- Building organization charts by hand
- Using the Organization Chart Wizard with existing data
- Altering org chart layout and appearance
- Adding photos and changing styles in org charts
- Using the Organization Chart Wizard with new data
- Key points
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