Visio 2007 Creating Data Diagrams with Visio Professional

Objective

Learn to connect data to Visio shapes in any drawing type, and display the data on the shapes in data graphics. Learn to create PivotDiagrams using data.

Prerequisite Skills

Comfortable creating basic Visio drawings and adding and formatting shapes in a drawing. Note also that this course requires Visio 2007 Professional; the features taught in the course are not available in the Standard version of Visio.

(Suggested course: Visio 2007 Getting Started)

Course Description

Do you need to create a diagram based on the information in an Excel worksheet, an Access database, or another data source? Do you want to make sure the diagram updates automatically when changes are made to the data file?

Attend this course if you want to:

Understand what data diagrams and PivotDiagrams are.
Understand what types of files can be used as a data source and how that data source must be set up.
Link a drawing to a data source.
Link information from the data source to the shapes in the drawing.
View the data linked to a shape.
Add data graphics to a shape (e.g., text callouts, data bars, and icons).
Change the color of shapes based on criteria for the data.
Refresh the data in a drawing.
Remove the link between a drawing and its data source.
Create a PivotDiagram.
Add and remove categories in a PivotDiagram.
Filter data in a PivotDiagram.
Sort shapes in a PivotDiagram.

Class Length

90 minutes

Delivery Options

Virtual classroom - public
($70 per student; check times and register here)
Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization)
($480 per class; contact us for more details)
Virtual classroom - one on one
(Register for a 45-minute 1-on-1 Application Support session. Cost is $70 per student per session.)
On-site instructor-led
(Contact us for details)