VISIO FUNDAMENTALS

COURSE OUTLINE

SECTION 1 - INTRODUCTION TO VISIO

· INTRODUCTION TO VISIO 2003

· TEMPLATES

· PARTS OF THE MAIN VISIO WINDOW

· CHOOSING TOOLBARS

· VISIO’S HELP SYSTEM

· WIZARDS

· EXITING VISIO

SECTION 2 - WORKING WITH DRAWINGS

· OPENING AN EXISTING DRAWING FILE

· ZOOMING

· CLOSING A DRAWING FILE

· SAMPLE DRAWINGS

· STARTING A NEW DRAWING FILE

· ADDING MASTER SHAPES TO A DRAWING

· SAVING A DRAWING FILE

· OPENING STENCILS

· THE FIND SHAPE PANE

SECTION 3 - WORKING WITH SHAPES

· OVERVIEW OF SHAPES AND THEIR COMPONENTS

· SELECTING SHAPES

· DELETING SHAPES

· UNDOING CHANGES

· MOVING SHAPES

· GROUPING SHAPES

· MODIFYING SHAPE ATTRIBUTES

· RESIZING SHAPES

· DUPLICATING SHAPES

· CONTROL HANDLES

· GLUING SHAPES

· CONNECTING SHAPES

· ADDING CONNECTION POINTS

SECTION 4 - WORKING WITH TEXT

· WORKING WITH TEXT BLOCKS

· TYPING TEXT INTO A SHAPE

· EDITING TEXT

· CHANGING THE FORMAT OF TEXT

· TEXT BLOCK TOOL

· SPELLING/FIND AND REPLACE

SECTION 5 - WORKING WITH MULTIPLE PAGES

· ADDING NEW PAGES

· MOVING BETWEEN PAGES

· REORDERING PAGES

· DELETING PAGES

· PAGE SETUP

SECTION 6 - MODIFYING OBJECTS

· ROTATING SHAPES

· STACKING SHAPES

· ALIGNING SHAPES

· DRAWING GRAPHIC OBJECTS

· CHANGING THE SHAPE OF AN OBJECT

· COMBINING SHAPES

SECTION 7 - CUSTOMIZING VISIO

· CREATING NEW STENCILS

· EDITING EXISTING MASTER SHAPES

· CREATING NEW MASTER SHAPES

· IMPORTING OBJECTS AS NEW MASTER SHAPES

· CREATING A NEW TEMPLATE

· INTRODUCTION TO SHAPESHEETS

SECTION 8 - PRINTING AND ADVANCED TOPICS

· PRINT PREVIEW

· PRINTING

· ASSIGNING VALUES TO A SHAPE

· GENERATING NUMERIC REPORTS

· WORKING WITH BACKGROUND PAGES

· USING VISIO WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS

· WORKING WITH LAYERS

· APPENDIX 1 – CREATING AN ORGANIZATION CHART

· CREATING AN ORGANIZATION CHART

· CHANGING THE LAYOUT OF THE ORG CHART

· ORGANIZATION CHART OPTIONS

Course Length: 1 Day

Prerequisites: Microsoft Windows