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Microsoft Visio 2007 Introduction course
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Overview
This course is designed to provide practical guidance on how to create a range of business and technical diagrams. The course covers the concepts of creating various floor plans, flow charts, maps etc. through using pre-defined tools to manipulate diagrams.
Audience
Users new to Visio who are interested in creating maps, diagrams, flowcharts, organization charts, layout and other drawings.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to use stencils and work with shapes to create a wide range of professional looking visual diagrams.
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge of Microsoft Visio is assumed.
Course Contents (1 day)
- Introduction
- The Visio window
- Starting Diagrams
- Templates & Stencils/Shapes
- Zoom Control
- Creating Diagrams
- Stencils - Floating and docking stencils
- Page layout
- Using Diagrams & backgrounds
- Guides, Rulers, Snap To and Glue
- Connection points, Universal connector
- Basic Shapes and Text
- Using & Formatting shapes
- Gluing, Aligning & Grouping/Ungrouping
- Shape text
- Text boxes & Formatting text & Lines
- Diagram Types
- Flowcharts
- Organisational charts
- Office layouts
- Network Diagrams
- Other
- Clipart
- Inserting Clipart & using Visio Clipart
- Formatting & Manipulating Clipart
- Drawing Objects and Layers
- Drawing objects
- Text on objects
- The use of layers
- Creating, Viewing, Formatting layers
- Adding objects & Colours
- Distributing & Aligning Objects
- Scaling and Re-sizing objects
- Miscellaneous
- Multi-page drawings
- Creating pages
- Foreground and background pages
- Navigating pages
- Using Borders
- Hyperlinks
- Links to other pages
- Paste to other Microsoft Applications
- Paste Link
- Creating a Template file & Custom master
- Printing
- Print preview and parameters
- Centre and Copy drawings