Introduction: Creating Drawings and Diagrams

During this one day training course, delegates learn fundamental Microsoft Visio skills while creating several types of diagrams, including flowcharts, flow diagrams and organisational charts. The course introduces basic Visio techniques, shortcuts and drawing tools to improve productivity and confidence.

Who Should Attend?

• Administrators creating diagrams or flowcharts
• Managers mapping processes or department structures
• Project staff creating workflow diagrams
• Users who need to create clear business diagrams

Course Requirements

No previous experience of Microsoft Visio is required. Delegates should have basic computer skills and a good understanding of the Microsoft Windows environment.

Course Content

• What is Visio: Introduction, background and common business uses.
• The Visio Screen: Layout, tools, options and navigation.
• Page Setup: Views, scales, foreground pages and background pages.
• Drawing with Visio: Use basic shapes, templates and stencils.
• Using and Manipulating Shapes: Scale, twist, rotate, duplicate and position shapes.
• Formatting Objects: Apply borders, fill colours, shadows and corner rounding.
• Working with Text: Use text boxes, alignment, formatting, cut, copy and paste.
• Connecting Shapes: Use static glue, dynamic glue and connectors.
• Connection Points: Move, create and delete connection points.
• Ordering Shapes: Control front, middle and back object order.
• Layers: Create, delete and assign objects to layers.
• Stencils: Work with drag and drop stencils and create custom stencils.
• Problem Solving Workshops: Apply tools to practical diagram examples.
• Questions and Answers: Resolve specific Visio questions.