Microsoft Visio 2007 Training Materials
Foundation Level Training Course
Training Course Outline
A FIRST LOOK AT VISIO 2007
- 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
USING VISIO 2007 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
- 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
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
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
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