Description

Ensure you can fully utilize this powerful tool to create a range of flowcharts and diagrams.

Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Microsoft Visio is a powerful tool designed to simplify complex information through the creation of simple, professional-looking diagrams.

While Visio is capable of producing almost any type of drawing this training concentrates on flowcharts, swim lane process diagrams and organisation charts. You will also discover the real power of Visio by adding essential data to the content of your diagrams and producing reports in Excel using this data.

This course is designed for either new users of Visio or those who have dabbled and can create basic diagrams. Our course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to navigate your way around this powerful program and produce different types of diagram.

Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Create and amend flowcharts
Create cross functional (Swim Lane) process flows
Produce organisation charts by importing data
Add essential data to shapes
Export diagram data reports to Excel
Present, publish and print Visio diagrams

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Content

Visio essentials

Finding your way around Visio
Using the ribbon and Quick Access toolbar
Keyboard shortcuts
Shapes and stencils explained
What Visio can do for you

Creating basic flowcharts

Working with shapes
Adding and deleting shapes
Joining, aligning and sizing shapes
Using Auto-Connect
Labelling shapes and connectors

Editing and improvinC flowcharts

Amending shape and connector labels
Using colours to emphasise
Changing line styles
Moving and copying objects
Grouping diagram elements
Quick ways of working

Cross functional flowcharts

Creating Cross-Functional Flowcharts
Manipulating functional bands
Creating off-page references within diagrams and hyperlinks to other documentation

Organising charts and shape data

Using the wizard to create an organisation Chart
Importing existing Data into to create an organisation chart
Modifying an organisation chart
Shape Data
Adding shape data to a shape
Creating shape data sets

Diagram reports

Exporting data to a report in Excel
Exporting to HTML
Creating and customizing reports

Presenting, publishing and printing

Using Page Setup
Print previewing
Embedding backgrounds
Adding headers and footers
Converting your final documentation to PDF
Saving as HTML
Visio with PowerPoint

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Visio Flowcharts and Diagrams

By Underscore Group

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