Microsoft Office Visio – Creating Charts and Diagrams Training Course

Introducing MS Visio

• Diagrams, shapes, templates, stencils
• Formatting a diagram
• Background and project page
• scale and units
• Navigating the diagram.

Objects

• Object types and object attributes
• Selecting objects
• working with objects, creating and importing custom objects
• 1D and 2D objects and connectors, connector routing.

Masters (stencils)

• Selecting a stencil
• Stencil modification and creating custom stencils
• Saving stencils and templates.

Tools for positioning objects

• Grid, guides, ruler
• Adjusting
• Stacking and grouping
• Layers
• Positioning.

Creating complex diagrams

• Diagram detail levels - process, subprocess, cascade diagrams
• Viewing control objects.

Objects as database records

• Default properties and user properties modification
• Indexing and property searching
• Creating property reports, export data into text file or MS Excel
• Modifying a diagram by editing the report.

Diagram presentation

• Preparing for printing
• Exporting to a website and running a presentation in a browser
• Exporting the diagram partly or in total into another MS Office programms.