MS Visio 2007 Professional Basic 

1-day course

Unit 1:The Visio environment
Topic A:Visio basics
A-1:Creating a drawing
A-2:Examining the work area
A-3:Using Visio Help
Topic B:Navigating in Visio
B-1:Opening a Visio drawing
B-2:Changing view settings
B-3:Navigating among drawing pages
Topic C:Using windows and stencils
C-1:Manipulating stencils
Topic D:Manipulating objects
D-1:Selecting and moving objects
D-2:Scaling and resizing an object
D-3:Saving and closing a drawing

Unit 2:Drawing tools
Topic A:Basic shapes and lines
A-1:Drawing basic shapes
A-2:Creating lines and arcs
A-3:Reshaping an arc
Topic B:Compound lines
B-1:Creating a freeform line
B-2:Creating a compound line with the Line and Arc tools
B-3:Creating a compound line with the Pencil tool
B-4:Manipulating compound lines
Topic C:Editing objects
C-1:Duplicating objects
C-2:Aligning objects
C-3:Distributing objects
C-4:Grouping objects
C-5:Rotating an object

Unit 3:Basic diagrams
Topic A:Planning your diagram
A-1:Discussing diagram planning
Topic B:Creating a basic diagram
B-1:Adding shapes
B-2:Connecting shapes
B-3:Using connector shapes
Topic C:Working with text
C-1:Creating and editing a text block
C-2:Adding paragraph text
C-3:Adding text to shapes
C-4:Adding text to connectors
C-5:Adjusting shape text
C-6:Rotating text
Topic D:Working with organization charts
D-1:Creating an organization chart
D-2:Changing the layout of an organization chart

Unit 4:Formatting drawings
Topic A:Formatting text
A-1:Formatting text by using toolbars
A-2:Formatting text by using the Text dialog box
Topic B:Formatting text blocks
B-1:Formatting a text block
B-2:Applying paragraph formatting to a text block
B-3:Adding bullets to a text block
Topic C:Formatting shapes and lines
C-1:Formatting a shape
C-2:Customizing a shape
C-3:Using the Fill and Shadow dialog boxes
C-4:Formatting multiple shapes
C-5:Adding fill and line attributes to a text block

Unit 5:Working with pages
Topic A:Creating and setting up a drawing
A-1:Creating a drawing and setting file properties
A-2:Defining printer settings and page size
A-3:Setting page properties
Topic B:Working with background pages
B-1:Creating a background page
B-2:Adding fields to a background page
B-3:Applying a background page
B-4:Editing a background page
Topic C:Working with links
C-1:Adding a page link
C-2:Adding a hyperlink
C-3:Linking multiple files to a shape
C-4:Linking to an Excel file
Topic D:Printing diagrams
D-1:Adding a header in Print Preview
D-2:Printing a diagram

Unit 6:Network and brainstorming diagrams
Topic A:Network diagrams
A-1:Using topology shapes in a network diagram
A-2:Adding a control handle
A-3:Adding and connecting topology shapes
A-4:Moving shape text
Topic B:Rack diagrams
B-1:Creating a rack diagram
Topic C:Brainstorming diagrams
C-1:Creating a brainstorming diagram
C-2:Exporting a brainstorming diagram to an XML file
C-3:Importing XML data into a brainstorming diagram

Unit 7:Introduction to advanced features
Topic A:Advanced layout and connection techniques
A-1:Using guides
A-2:Adding connection points
A-3:Selecting objects by type
A-4:Connecting shapes to new connection points
A-5:Changing Snap & Glue settings
Topic B:Custom properties
B-1:Adding custom properties to shapes
B-2:Creating custom property sets
B-3:Applying user-defined custom properties
Topic C:Reporting
C-1:Creating a report
C-2:Running a report
C-3:Updating a report
C-4:Formatting a Visio Table Report shape

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Our Visio courses include:

Microsoft Visio 2007 Professional Foundation

Microsoft Visio 2007 Professional Advanced

Microsoft Visio 2003 Foundation 

Microsoft Visio 2003 Advanced

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