Visio 2007 Getting Started

Objective

Learn the terminology and capabilities of Visio 2007. Learn to create a diagram by adding shapes, formatting shapes and text, and connecting shapes.

Prerequisite Skills

Comfortable with the Windows environment.
Comfortable with Microsoft Office applications (particularly Word and/or PowerPoint)
(Suggested courses: Word 2007 Getting Started and/or PowerPoint 2007 Getting Started)
Familiarity with Microsoft Office AutoShapes and drawing tools is helpful but not essential
(Suggested course: Office 2007 Drawing, Clip Art, & WordArt)

Course Description

Do you want to use Visio to create block diagrams, flowcharts, organization charts, and other types of business diagrams? This course provides a general introduction to the Visio interface and the drawing tools available in Visio.

Attend this course if you want to:

Understand the types of drawings you can create with Visio.
Understand and navigate in the Visio environment.
Work with the Shapes Pane and Visio stencils.
Change the page orientation (i.e., portrait or landscape).
Add additional pages to a drawing.
Save a drawing.
Open and close existing drawings.
Create new drawings.
Add shapes to a drawing.
Move, resize, flip or rotate, duplicate, group, align, and distribute shapes.
Zoom in or out on the page.
Connect shapes.
Add a fill color, shadow, or other effects to a shape.
Format lines and borders.
Add text to shapes and drawings.
Add a border, title, or background to a drawing.
Print drawings.
Get help in Visio.

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)