Microsoft Visio Essentials

This one-day training course has been designed to give you all the basics of Visio, so you can start mapping process flow diagrams and creating organisation charts, network diagrams and scaled diagrams (such as room layouts).

By the end of the day you will be able to set up, populate, layout, print and export a Visio diagram, and you will be able to create multiple pages with links between them.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this one-day Visio course, you will be able to:

• Open templates and stencils

• Understand the layout of the drawing window and how to zoom

• Format shapes and text

• Use foreground and background pages to produce consistent layouts

• Connect shapes using connector tools

• Create basic flowcharts, process flowcharts and organisation charts

• Create hyperlinks between pages and save your drawings for use on an intranet or internet

Course Timetable

Session 1 — Creating a simple drawing

• Getting around Visio

• Drawings, stencils and templates

• Finding shapes

• Working with shapes

• Zooming, panning and moving around a drawing

• Grids and rulers

• Working with text

Session 2 — Using multiple links and pages

• Inserting, deleting, copying and naming pages

• Creating a page to be used as a background

• Applying background pages to other drawings

Session 3 — Using flowchart shapes

• Connecting shapes together

• Connector tools – point to point and shape to shape

• Align and distribute

• Saving a drawing for use outside of Visio

Session 4 — Using guides

• Creating an organisation chart on one or more pages

• Formatting parts of an organisation chart

• Saving a drawing for the web or an intranet