Visio Level Two
Microsoft® Office Visio 2007
Course ID: HLT 84902
Course Length: 1 day
Course Description:
In this course, you will expand on the knowledge you gained in the Visio 2007 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 have equivalent knowledge:
- Visio 2007 Professional: Level 1 for Windows
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Performance-Based Objectives :
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 Content
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
Microsoft® Office Visio 2010
Course ID: HLT 84599
Course Length: 1 day
Course Objective:
You will create custom elements and a custom template, represent external data as a drawing, and share your work with others.
Target Student:
This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of the basic workflow and the concept of end-to-end flowcharting.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, it is recommended that you take the following Element K course: Microsoft® Visio® 2010: Level 1.
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Performance-Based Objectives :
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- create a custom shape.
- design a custom stencil.
- design a floor plan.
- design a custom stencil.
- represent external data in Visio.
- share your work.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Creating a Custom Shape
Topic 1A: Draw Basic Shapes
Topic 1B: Enhance Basic Shapes
Lesson 2: Designing a Custom Stencil
Topic 2A: Create a Custom Stencil
Topic 2B: Customize a Stencil Master
Lesson 3: Designing Styles and Templates
Topic 3A: Define a New Style
Topic 3B: Create a Template
Lesson 4: Designing a Floor Plan
Topic 4A: Create an Office Layout
Topic 4B: Work with Layers
Lesson 5: Representing External Data in Visio
Topic 5A: Generate a PivotDiagram
Topic 5B: Create an Organization Chart from External Data
Topic 5C: Import Project Plan Data into Visio
Topic 5D: Link to a Database
Topic 5E: Import Excel Data
Lesson 6: Sharing Your Drawings
Topic 6A: Link a Visio Drawing to Other Applications
Topic 6B: Convert a Visio Drawing to Other File Formats
Topic 6C: Print a Visio Drawing