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MICROSOFT VISIO - Essentials

Course Aims:

This is a hands-on course introducing you to the correct way to use Visio.  The course concentrates on learning basic and more advanced Visio skills and the essential features necessary to produce professional looking diagrams.

Contents:

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

Assumed Knowledge:

A knowledge of the Windows environment is desirable but not essential

Duration:  1 Day

Follow-on Course:

Visio Specifics 

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