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Microsoft Visio 2007 Courseware
Foundation Level Training Course

Training Course Outline.

USING MICROSOFT VISIO 2007

A FIRST LOOK AT VISIO

• Microsoft Visio 2007
• Getting Started
• Opening a sample file
• Zooming
• Pan and zoom
• Closing a diagram
• The Shapes Pane
• The Drawing Page
• The Task Pane
• To switch Task panes
• The Visio Toolbars
• The Standard Toolbar
• The Formatting Toolbar
• Adding or removing Toolbars

GETTING HELP

• Typing a question to ask for help
• Microsoft Office Visio Help
• Help Table of Contents
• Printing Help topics
• Help Demos
• Using the Microsoft Web Site

WORKING WITH DRAWINGS

USING TEMPLATES

• Types of templates available
• Creating a new diagram based on a template

USING SHAPES

• About Stencils shapes
• Adding a shape to the drawing area
• Adding more shapes and connecting them to existing shapes
• Adding text to the shape
• Manually connecting shapes
• Adding text to a Connector
• Deleting a Connector
• Saving your diagram
• Opening a diagram file

MANIPULATING SHAPES

• Moving shapes
• Resizing shapes
• Deleting shapes

ADDING BACKGROUNDS, BORDERS AND TITLES

• Opening the background stencil and assigning a background
• Using the Border and Title Stencil

MANAGING STENCILS

• Displaying the Stencil Toolbar
• Displaying / Hiding the Stencil Shapes Pane
• Creating a new Stencil
• Renaming a Stencil
• Saving the Stencil
• Adding Shapes to a Stencil
• Adding Custom Shapes to a Stencil
• Closing a Floating Stencil
• Opening the Stencil

FORMATTING TEXT & SHAPES

FORMATTING TEXT

• Format Text Toolbar
• Changing the Font Type
• Font Size
• Font Style, Bold, Italic and Underline
• Font Color
• Font Case
• Horizontally Text Alignment
• Vertical Text Alignment
• Changing the Line Indention
• Changing the Text Margins
• Text Background Shading
• Bullets

FORMATTING SHAPES

• Format Shape toolbar
• Shape Fill Color
• Shape Fill Pattern & Transparency
• Shape Shadow Effects
• Shape Line Color
• Shape Line Weight
• Shape Line Pattern
• Shape Line Ends
• Rounding Shape Corners
• Themes

MANAGING SHAPES

POSITIONING AND ALIGNING SHAPES

• Action Toolbar
• Grouping shapes
• Ungrouping shapes
• Ordering shapes
• Bringing a shape to the front
• Sending a shape to the back
• Sending shapes forwards or backwards
• Rotating a shape to the right
• Rotating a shape to the left
• Free rotating a shape
• Rotating text within the shape
• Flipping a shape horizontally
• Flipping a shape vertically
• Aligning shapes
• Distributing shapes
• Adjusting shape layout
• Centering a drawing

FORMATTING CONNECTORS

• Layout and Routing Toolbar
• Connector routing options
• Using curved connectors
• Using straight connectors
• Setting line jump options

USING SNAP AND GLUE

• Using the Snap and Glue Toolbar
• Snapping and gluing
• Viewing active snap and glue elements
• Manually connecting shapes using Dynamic Glue
• Manually connecting shapes using Static Glue
• Manually connecting a series of shapes

USING LAYERS

• Layers
• Assigning a shape to a layer
• Showing and hiding layers
• INSERTING CLIPART
• Clip Art

SETTING UP AND EDITING PAGES

MANAGING PAGES

• Moving between pages
• Inserting a new page
• Renaming a page
• Reordering pages
• Deleting a page
• Creating a background page
• Assigning a background page

USING PAGE VIEW TOOLS

• View Toolbar
• Showing and hiding the rulers
• Showing and hiding the grid
• Adding Guides
• Showing and hiding the guides
• Using the Size and Position window
• Using the Drawing Explorer window
• Setting a drawing scale

PRINTING AND SHARING DRAWINGS

GETTING READY TO PRINT

• Spell Check
• Paper size and orientation
• Print Preview

PRINTING THE DRAWING

• Selecting a printer
• Printer Properties
• Print Range
• Number of Print Copies

CUSTOMIZING VISIO 2007

• Options Dialog Box

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