Microsoft Visio

Overview

With its large collection of pre-defined shapes and intuitive interface Visio makes the job of creating professional looking diagrams and drawings easy. Its extensive features can be used to model a wide range of situations such as process flows, data structures, building layouts, design schemes and business processes.

Duration

1 day

Level 1 (New User)

• What’s new in your version of Visio?
• Overview of Visio features and capabilities
• Functional elements of the Visio screen, (including the task panes and toolbars)
• Obtaining help
• Opening, closing, saving and searching for files
• Creating a new drawing from scratch, (including page setup and setting the drawing scale)
• Working with basic drawing tools, (e.g. lines, arcs, circles, boxes)
• Using pre-defined ‘shapes’ and stencils
• Working with text, (including formatting options)
• Overview of templates, styles, and layers
• Using the ’Pan and Zoom’ window to move around the page
• Manipulating and editing shapes, (including linking)
• Creating your own custom shapes and stencils
• Working with multiple pages
• Design layout considerations
• Printing your drawing