Visio - Accelerated Introduction

AutoConnect

• Enable or disable AutoConnect

• Add and glue connectors with AutoConnect

• Use AutoConnect while dragging shapes onto the page

• Use AutoConnect with shapes on the page

Shapes

• Align, evenly space or connect shapes

• Create a custom shape and favourites Stencil

• Copy shapes to My Shapes

Themes & Colours

• Apply a theme

• Create a custom theme

• Duplicate a theme

• Edit a custom theme

• Copy a custom theme to another drawing

• Prevent themes from affecting a shape

• Remove a theme from a shape

• Delete a custom theme

Backgrounds

• Add a background

• Create a background page

• Quickly create a background page using a background shape

• Edit a background page

Excel and Other External Data

• Import data from Excel and other external sources

• Step 1: Import your data

• Step 2: Link rows of data to shapes in your drawing

• Refresh the data in a drawing

• Set Visio to automatically refresh the data in a drawing

• Resolve conflicts between old and new data