Visio 2007 - Online Course

If you need to explain a complicated process, flowchart, organizational chart, or other diagram, Visio is the tool to help you. This series will walk you through using Visio to build visual information that easily communicates complex topics.

This series is for anyone who wants to learn the most commonly used features of Microsoft Visio 2007. This online course contains 9 lessons and should take approximately 20 hours to complete.

Lesson 1: Getting Started (2.0) hours

Getting Started teaches you how to navigate and customize Visio 2007, and work with stencils, shapes, and drawings. This course explains how to use Visio 2007 to create business and technical drawings. Topics include Understanding Visio, Using Visio, Working with Stencils, Working with Shapes, and Working with Drawings.

Lesson 2: Working with Shapes (2.0) hours

Working with Shapes teaches you how to identify shape types and their controls, control shape behavior using control handles, rotation handles and pins, control points, vertices, and eccentricity handles, apply color and effects themes to your drawings, configure print settings, and print your drawings. This course explains how to control shape size, position, and behavior. It also explains how to apply themes and print shapes. Topics include Using Shapes, Controlling Shapes, Employing Themes, Printing Visio Drawings, and Working with the Print Options.

Lesson 3: Adding Connectors, Glue, and Text (3.0) hours

Adding Connectors, Glue, and Text teaches you how to use connectors to connect shapes in a Visio drawing, use glue to modify connector behavior, and add text to Visio drawings. This course explains how to connect Visio shapes with connectors, and how to modify the way connectors work. It also explores the use of text in Visio drawings. Topics include Working with Connectors, Working with Glue, Gluing Connectors, Doing More with Connectors, and Working with Text.

Lesson 4: Using Guides, Rulers, and Custom Shapes (2.0) hours

Using Guides, Rulers, and Custom Shapes teaches you how to set a custom scale, create guidelines and guidepoints, enable and modify snapping, draw a closed shape, and set fills, patterns, and shadows for shapes. This course explains how to use the drawing grid and guides to draw, organize, and modify shapes. Topics include Using the Drawing Grid, Scale, and Rulers, Using Guides and Aligning Shapes, Creating Custom Shapes, and Customizing Shapes.

Lesson 5: Using Groups, Pages, and Layers (3.0) hours

Using Groups, Pages, and Layers teaches you how to create custom color themes and effects, group and ungroup shapes, add, delete, and set the size of pages, add backgrounds to your pages, and use layers to organize shapes in your drawings. This course explains how to use themes, groups, pages, and layers in your Visio 2007 drawings. Topics include Customizing Themes, Grouping Shapes, Working with Pages, Working with Multiple Pages, Working with Backgrounds, and Working with Layers.

Lesson 6: Building Stencils, Templates, and Reports (2.0) hours

Building Stencils, Templates, and Reports teaches you how to customize stencils to reuse shapes for your drawings, customize templates to create a consistent look in your drawings, add data to shapes to include specific pieces of information, and create predefined and custom reports. This course explains both the out-of-the-box and customizable uses of Visio 2007 to work with stencils, templates and reports. Topics include Customizing Stencils, Customizing Templates, Adding Data to Shapes, and Creating Reports.

Lesson 7: Setting Shape Behavior and Adding Markup (2.0) hours

Setting Shape Behavior and Adding Markup teaches you how to describe how to change the behavior of a shape, lock shapes, layers, and drawings, describe how to add comments to drawings, identify how to add and view markup, describe how to add a reviewer's markup to your original document, and use digital ink. This course provides an introduction to the behavior of shapes. It also covers how to work with markup and comments added to Visio drawings. Topics include Modifying Shape Behavior, Locking Shapes, Layers, and Drawings, Marking Up Drawings, Incorporating Markup, and Working with Digital Ink.

Lesson 8: Creating Block Drawings and Charts (2.0) hours

Creating Block Drawings and Charts teaches you how to identify the types of block drawing templates, modify block shapes, create trees, bar charts, line graphs and pie charts, and create a variety of marketing drawings. This course explains the basic techniques used for working with block drawings. It also covers creating various types of charts and graphs. Topics include Working with Block Drawings, Creating Bar Charts and Line Graphs, and Creating Marketing Drawings.

Lesson 9: Creating Organization Charts and Flowcharts (2.0) hours

Creating Organization Charts and Flowcharts teaches you how to create organization charts based on predefined templates and the Organization Chart Wizard, format and adjust the layout of organization charts, compare different versions of an organization chart, and create a variety of flowchart diagrams. This course explains how to use the organization chart and flowchart templates in Visio 2007. Topics include Creating Organization Charts, Modifying Chart Layout and Format, and Creating Flowcharts.