After completing this 1-day course, students will
know how to:
Create, assign, and customise layers;
modify a drawing scale; and add and modify dimension
lines.
Use themes to quickly format charts and
diagrams; create themes; create and apply styles; create
templates; and create drawings based on custom
templates.
Enable developer mode, create complex
shapes, apply behaviours to shapes, protect a shape,
create master shapes and custom stencils, and define
custom default actions and master shape properties.
Create block diagrams, flowcharts, organization charts,
and project management diagrams, and generate a Web site
map.
Integrate Visio drawings with other Office
programs, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint,
and Microsoft Outlook; and work with Web-enabling
features such as hyperlinks.
Create program-window
prototypes and system diagrams; create database model
diagrams; and reverse engineer a table from a database.
Creating technical layouts
Topic A: Layers
Creating and assigning a layer
Customizing layers
Adding custom shapes to a layer
Topic B: Drawing
scales
Using and changing the drawing scale
Manually adding and adjusting shapes
Using the Shape
Data window
Changing a shape’s size and position
settings
Duplicating shapes
Topic C:
Dimensioning
Adding and adjusting dimension
connectors
Setting display units
Calculating and
adjusting the area of a room
Custom themes and
templates
Topic A: Themes and styles
Applying
theme colors
Applying theme effects
Creating a
custom theme
Creating a style
Applying style
attributes
Topic B: Templates
B-1: Creating a
custom template
B-2: Creating a drawing based on a
template
Custom shapes and stencils
Topic
A: Special drawing operations
Creating complex shapes
by using basic shapes
Topic B: Shape behavior and
events
Specifying a behavior for a double-click
action
Adding a lock behavior to an image
Topic C: Custom stencils
Creating shapes for a
stencil
Modifying a shape by using a ShapeSheet
Adding a predefined action to a shape
Adding and
editing stencil shapes
Customizing stencil shapes
Saving a stencil
Business diagrams and Web site
mapping
Topic A: Block, tree, and onion diagrams
Creating a block diagram
Topic B: Flowcharts
Creating a workflow diagram
Creating a
cross-functional flowchart
Topic C: Organisation
charts
Comparing organisation charts
Creating an
organisation chart by importing data
Topic D:
Project management diagrams
Creating timelines
Creating a PERT chart
Creating a Gantt chart
Topic E: Web site maps
Generating a Web site map
Viewing link information
Generating a report of Web
site links
Integrating Visio with other programs
Topic A: Integration with Microsoft Word
Embedding a Visio drawing in a Word document
Linking
a Word document
Using drag-and-drop
Topic B:
Integration with PowerPoint
Inserting drawings in
PowerPoint
Linking a presentation to a Visio drawing
Topic C: Integration with Microsoft Outlook
Creating a calendar
Importing calendar data from
Outlook
Topic D: Working with Web-enabling
features
Linking a Visio drawing to a Word document
Converting a drawing to a Web page
Software and
database diagrams
Topic A: Documenting software
systems
Drawing a program window
Drawing a system
diagram
Topic B: Database model diagrams
Creating a database model diagram
Using the Reverse
Engineer Wizard
