Get quick answers to your most urgent Visio questions. This course contains more than two dozen bite-sized tips for working efficiently in Visio, the popular diagramming software.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Visio quick tips
- Restore a missing Shapes pane
- AutoConnect and Quick Shapes
- Dynamic grid: Position shapes on the page
- Dynamic grid: Align and resize shapes
- Duplicate shapes
- Align and distribute shapes
- Draw rectangles, squares, ellipses, and circles
- Draw straight lines, arcs, and freeform lines
- Organize shapes with containers
- Work with swimlanes
- Lines vs. dynamic connectors
- Use static glue
- Use dynamic glue
- Add text to shapes
- Move the text block to a new location
- Best practices for text
- Top five pan and zoom shortcuts
- Top four diagram navigation shortcuts
- Create background pages for logos and graphics
- Create background pages with borders and title blocks
- Duplicate pages
- Create PowerPoint slides from a Visio diagram
- Temporarily suspend snap to grid
- Find the Shape Data window
- Utilize Shape Data fields
- Run reports
- Link to external data
- Link data to shapes
- Create shapes from external data
- Update external data and refresh diagrams
- Next steps
Taught by
Scott Helmers
