Introduction to Visio

• Opening, closing, creating and saving a new Visio drawing
• Adding stencils. moving stencils and closing stencils
• Dragging shapes onto a drawing

Working with Shapes

• Using the drawing tools
• Selecting shapes
• Move, copy and delete shapes
• Interaction style, 2-D and 1-D shapes
• Working with handles, endpoints and vertices
• Formatting shapes
• Aligning and distributing shapes
• Grouping shapes
• Working with smart shapes

Working with Connectors and Glue

• Adding and deleting connectors
• Connecting shapes using connector tool, other 1-D shapes and the connect shapes icon
• Working with dynamic and static glue
• Working with text
• Adding text to drawings
• Adding text to shapes
• Formatting text
• Move, copy and delete text
• Rotate text

Printing and Page Properties

• Adding pages
• Working with background pages
• Re-order, delete and rotate pages
• Changing the drawing page size
• Scaling pages
• Printing pages and changing paper size
• Adding headers and footers

Working with Rulers, Grid, Snap and Guides

• Using and changing the drawing grid
• Changing the ruler subdivisions
• Using snap settings
• Using guides and guide points

Working with Layers

• Creating layers
• Assigning a shape to a layer
• Making layers visible
• Colouring shapes in layer

Who is it for? This course is suitable for people who have no experience of using Microsoft Visio but is computer literate and can use a keyboard and a mouse.

This course will enable you to create and design professional Process Maps, Flow Charts, Organisation Charts and much more. It is a drawing package with flexibility. From this course you will learn how to use the drawing tools to make professional charts with ease.