MS Visio 2010 Professional Basic
Training Course
 

1-day course

After completing this course, students will know how to:

• Navigate in a file, change view settings, identify interface components, use Visio Help; work with windows and stencils; and select, scale, and resize objects.

• Draw and reshape objects; work with compound lines; duplicate objects; and align, distribute, group, and rotate objects.

• Plan a flowchart; use master shapes; connect shapes in a diagram; work with text; and create a simple organisation chart.

• Format text and text blocks, control attributes including font size, text colour, margins, alignment, and line spacing, apply style themes and effects, and format shapes and lines.

• Set file, page, and print properties; use Print Preview; create print headers and footers; print a drawing; work with background pages; use fields to display information; and create hyperlinks.

• Create network, rack, and brainstorming diagrams, and import and export data.

• Use guides to precisely align and glue shapes, add new connection points to a shape, set properties for shapes, create and apply custom properties, create and run reports, format a report table, and update a report.

Unit 1: Getting started

The Visio 2010 interface
Windows, stencils, and objects
 

Unit 2: Drawing tools

Topic A: Basic shapes and lines
Drawing basic shapes
Creating lines and arcs
Reshaping an arc

Topic B:Compound lines
Creating a freeform line
Creating a compound line with the Line and Arc tools
Creating a compound line with the Pencil tool
Manipulating compound lines

Topic C:Editing objects
Duplicating objects
Aligning objects
Distributing objects
Grouping objects
Rotating an object

Unit 3:Basic diagrams

Topic A: Planning your diagram
Discussing diagram planning

Topic B: Creating a basic diagram
Adding shapes
Connecting shapes
Using connector shapes

Topic C: Working with text
Creating and editing a text block
Adding paragraph text
Adding text to shapes
Adding text to connectors
Adjusting shape text
Rotating text

Topic D: Working with organization charts
Creating an organization chart
Changing the layout of an organization chart

Unit 4:Formatting drawings

Topic A: Formatting text
Formatting text by using toolbars
Formatting text by using the Text dialog box

Topic B: Formatting text blocks and lines
Formatting a text block
Applying paragraph formatting to a text block
Adding bullets to a text block
Formatting a shape
Customizing a shape
Using the Fill and Shadow dialog boxes
Formatting multiple shapes
Adding fill and line attributes to a text block

Unit 5: Working with pages

Topic A: Creating and setting up a drawing
Creating a drawing and setting file properties
Defining printer settings and page size
Setting page properties

Topic B: Working with background pages
Creating a background page
Adding fields to a background page
Applying a background page
Editing a background page

Topic C: Working with links
Adding a page link
Adding a hyperlink
Linking multiple files to a shape
Linking to an Excel file

Unit 6: Network and brainstorming diagrams

Topic A: Network diagrams
Using topology shapes in a network diagram
Adding a control handle
Adding and connecting topology shapes
Moving shape text

Topic B: Rack diagrams
Creating a rack diagram

Topic C: Brainstorming diagrams
Creating a brainstorming diagram
Exporting a brainstorming diagram to an XML file
Importing XML data into a brainstorming diagram

Unit 7: Customization and reporting

Topic A: Advanced layout and connection techniques
Using guides
Adding connection points
Selecting objects by type
Connecting shapes to new connection points
Changing Snap & Glue settings

Topic B: Shape properties
Adding custom properties to shapes
Creating custom property sets
Applying user-defined custom properties

Topic C: Reporting
Creating a report
Running a report
Updating a report
Formatting a Visio Table Report shape

For further details, or to book a course, please contact us:
email:        training@ictwizard.com
telephone:  01382 453447
 

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