Project Management / Business Training Overview
In this course, you will expand on the knowledge you gained in the 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 course or have equivalent knowledge:
- Visio 2002 Professional: Level 1 for Windows:
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities
Hardware / Software Requirements
- A PC with a Pentium 166 MHz or higher processor. Pentium III recommended.
- Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional or later operating system.
- At least 64 MB of RAM (128 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 (640 x 480) or higher resolution monitor with 256 colors.
- Microsoft Visio 2002 Professional.
- Microsoft Word.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Performance-Based Objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- 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.
Course duration
1 Day
Project Management / Business Training outline
Lesson 1: Customizing Visio
- Topic 1A: Working with Toolbars
- Task 1A-1: Opening Toolbars
- Task 1A-2: Dragging and Dropping Toolbars
- Task 1A-3: Adding Commands to Toolbars
- Topic 1B: Working with Windows
- Task 1B-1: Working with Stencil Windows
- Task 1B-2: Merging Visio Windows
Lesson 2: Using the Drawing Tools
- Topic 2A: Drawing Basics
- Task 2A-1: Drawing Closed Shapes
- Task 2A-2: Drawing Lines and Arcs
- Task 2A-3: Drawing Segmented Lines
- Task 2A-4: Reshaping Lines
- Topic 2B: Advanced Drawing Techniques
- Task 2B-1: Drawing with Precision
- Task 2B-2: Using Operation Commands
Lesson 3: Custom Shapes
- Topic 3A: Using Custom Shapes
- Task 3A-1: Creating a Custom Shape
- Topic 3B: Using Custom Shapes in a Drawing
- Task 3B-1: Enhancing a Drawing with Custom Shapes
- Task 3B-2: Using the Maximum Graphx Logo Shape in a Drawing
- Task 3B-3: Using Custom Shapes to Enhance Existing Shapes
Lesson 4: Advanced Stencil Techniques
- Topic 4A: Custom Stencils
- Task 4A-1: Creating a New Stencil
- Task 4A-2: Adding Custom Shapes to a Stencil
- Topic 4B: Customizing Stencil Masters
- Task 4B-1: Editing Master Properties
- Task 4B-2: Formatting a Master in a Stencil
- Task 4B-3: Adding and Directing Connection Points
- Task 4B-4: Applying Behaviors to a Custom Shape
- Task 4B-5: Using the Maximum Graphx Master
- Topic 4C: The Document Stencil
- Task 4C-1: Retrieving Shapes from the Document Stencil
Lesson 5: Templates, Styles, and Layers
- Topic 5A: Working with Templates
- Task 5A-1: Creating a New Template
- Task 5A-2: Using a Custom Template
- Topic 5B: Formatting and Linking Shapes
- Task 5B-1: Defining New Styles
- Task 5B-2: Applying and Editing Styles
- Task 5B-3: Adding Links to Shapes
- Topic 5C: Layers
- Task 5C-1: Viewing Layer Properties
- Task 5C-2: Manipulating Layers
Lesson 6: Sharing Your Work
- Topic 6A: Object Linking and Embedding
- Task 6A-1: Placing a Visio Drawing in MS Word
- Task 6A-2: Updating the Calendar
- Topic 6B: Working with External Data
- Task 6B-1: Preparing Shapes in the Document Stencil
- Task 6B-2: Using the Database Wizard
- Task 6B-3: Distributing Information in a Linked Network Diagram
- Topic 6C: Creating HTML Documents
- Task 6C-1: Preparing a Drawing for the Web
- Task 6C-2: Saving the Timeline as a Web Page
- Topic 6D: Printing Techniques
- Task 6D-1: Using the Print Preview Feature
- Task 6D-2: Working with Page Breaks
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