Microsoft Visio 2013

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Getting to Know Microsoft Visio

• Start Visio in Windows 8
• Understand the start screen
• Create a new drawing from a template
• The Visio screen
• How Microsoft Visio 2013 works
• Using the ribbon
• Minimise the ribbon
• Understand the backstage view
• Access the backstage view
• Use shortcut menus
• Understand dialog boxes
• Launch dialog boxes
• Understand the Quick Access Toolbar
• Add commands to the QAT
• Understand the status bar
• Customise the status bar
• Save a new drawing
• Exit safely from Visio

Working With Stencils

• Understand stencils
• The shapes window
• Quick shapes
• Use Quick Shapes
• Create a custom stencil
• Open a stencil
• Edit a stencil
• Close a stencil

Working With Shapes

• Place shapes from a stencil
• Select shapes
• Resize shapes
• Move shapes
• Copy, Cut and paste shapes
• Duplicate shapes
• Rotate and flip shapes
• Order shapes
• Merge shapes to create new shapes
• Group and ungroup shapes
• Align shapes
• Align shapes using the dynamic grid
• Distribute shapes
• Change shapes
• Use snap and glue

Formatting Shapes

• Apply Quick Styles
• Format the fill
• Format lines
• Apply effects
• Use the format painter
• Use undo and redo
• Protect shapes

Working With Connectors

• Connect shapes
• Automatically add connected shapes
• Connect existing shapes
• Insert and delete shapes
• Add text to connectors
• Change connectors
• Work with connection points
• Format connectors

Containers

• Add containers
• Add shapes to a container
• Format containers
• Delete containers

Working With Text

• Add text to shapes
• Format text
• Add text to the page
• Edit text
• Use find and replace
• Align text
• Move text
• Create bullet lists
• Create tables
• Spell check text

Working With Pages

• Insert pages
• Name pages
• Change page order
• Rotate pages
• Delete pages
• Apply a background style
• Add headers and footers
• Insert a logo
• Assign a background page to other pages
• Page size and orientation

Page Tools

• Understand page tools
• Zoom
• Pan
• Use the pan and zoom window
• Display grids and rulers
• Change grids and rulers
• Set guides and guide points
• Use guides and guide points
• Work with rulers
• Change the scale

• Understand themes
• Apply a theme
• Apply a theme variant
• Highlight shapes with Quick Styles
• Embellished shapes
• Create a custom theme
• Create custom theme colours

Working Collaboratively

• Add comments
• Work with comments
• Use the comments pane
• Comment with ink
• Coauthor drawings
• Save to OneDrive
• Share drawings
• Open shared drawings

Outputting Drawings

• Use print preview
• Fit a drawing to printer pages
• Print a drawing
• Email drawings

Organisational Charts

• Create an organisation chart from scratch
• Add multiple shapes
• Change a position type
• Change the layout of shapes
• Change the spacing of shapes
• Create a team
• Change the order of shapes
• Add a title
• Insert pictures
• Format an organisation chart
• Add shape data
• Create shape data fields
• Create a custom shape and stencil
• Create master shape data fields

Organisational Chart Data

• Create an org chart from employee data
• Create an org chart from a new data file
• Add employee data
• Export data
• Compare versions
• Create synchronised copies
• Synchronise relationships

• Create a calendar
• Add appointments to a calendar
• Add a multi-day event to a calendar
• Add text to a calendar
• Add art to a calendar
• Add a thumbnail month
• Format calendars

Gantt Charts

• Understand Gantt charts
• Understand Gantt chart options
• Create a Gantt chart
• Enter task details
• Create subtasks
• Link and unlink tasks
• Add and delete tasks
• Add milestones
• Add and hide columns
• Navigate a Gantt chart
• Format task bars
• Manage the timescale
• Export from a Gantt chart
• Import data into a Gantt chart
• Print Gantt charts

Cross Functional FlowChart

• Understand cross functional flowcharts
• Create a cross functional flowchart
• Add swimlanes
• Add swimlane labels
• Add phases
• Add shapes
• Adjust swimlanes and phases
• Format cross functional charts