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Overview
In this course, you will expand on the knowledge you gained in the Visio 2003 Professional: Level 1 course. You will work with many advanced features, including using the drawing tools, creating and working with custom stencils and templates, and sharing your Visio drawings with other applications.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following have equivalent knowledge:
- Visio 2003 Professional: Level 1 for Windows
Target Student
Students enrolling in this course should have a working knowledge of Windows 95 (or later) and basic word processing.
Performance-Based Objectives
- Open and manipulate toolbars and stencil windows in the work area.
- Change background settings to enhance specific drawings.
- Use the drawing tools and Operation command features to create
new custom shapes.
- Integrate both simple and complex custom shapes in a drawing.
- Create new masters in a stencil and edit masters.
- Use the Document stencil to quickly take inventory of all the shapes
used in a drawing.
- Create a new custom template and use it to quickly create a drawing.
- Create and use styles to quickly format multiple shapes in a drawing.
- Use layers to organize and control shapes in a drawing.
- Link a Visio drawing within a Microsoft Word document and update
any changes.
- Link shapes in a drawing to information contained in an external
database.
- Convert a drawing to a Web page.
- Use several techniques for preparing a drawing for printing.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson 1: Customizing Visio
- Topic 1A: Working with Toolbars
- Topic 1B: Working with Windows
Lesson 2: Using the Drawing Tools
- Topic 2A: Drawing Basics
- Topic 2B: Advanced Drawing Techniques
Lesson 3: Custom Shapes
- Topic 3A: Using Custom Shapes
- Topic 3B: Using Custom Shapes in a Drawing
Lesson 4: Advanced Stencil Techniques
- Topic 4A: Custom Stencils
- Topic 4B: Customizing Stencil Masters
- Topic 4C: The Document Stencil
Lesson 5: Templates, Styles, and Layers
- Topic 5A: Working with Templates
- Topic 5B: Formatting and Linking Shapes
- Topic 5C: Layers
Lesson 6: Sharing Your Work
- Topic 6A: Object Linking and Embedding
- Topic 6B: Working with External Data
- Topic 6C: Creating HTML Documents
- Topic 6D: Printing Techniques
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need:
- A PC with a Pentium 200 MHz or higher processor. Pentium III
recommended.
- Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT
4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows XP Professional.
- At least 128 MB of RAM (256 MB of RAM recommended).
- 110 MB of available hard disk space for software installation,
and an additional 5 MB for the course data files.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution monitor with 256 colors.
- Microsoft Visio 2003 Professional.
- Microsoft Word.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer.
