Who Should Attend:

• IT Professionals who provide tech support
• Business Users with diagramming requirements

Course Objectives

• An overview of the basic and advanced features available in Microsoft Visio 2010®
• Learn how to create, format and manipulate shapes and apply decorative themes
• Learn how to use connectors and layout tools to build flowcharts and Org Charts
• Learn how to create and export timelines and Gantt chart to track project details
• Learn how to use and create templates and themes and use layers.

What will you gain?

• Work with block diagrammes and move, size, rotate, and copy shapes
• Format individual shapes, add decorative elements, and apply themes to entire diagrammes
• Connect shapes, use connectors in a flowchart and use layout tools to distribute, align and position shapes
• Use Visio timelines and Gantt charts, create timelines, export timeline data and track project details
• Create an organisation chart, view and modify data stored within shapes, display and format text within shapes, change chart layouts and add color and background to charts
• Use Office Layout template and use layers to organise shapes in an office layout
• Create a diagramme of a network infrastructure, add information to the network equipment shapes and create a hardware report.

Course Content

• Visio 2020 essentials introduction
• What is Visio 2010?
• Starting Visio 2010
• The Visio 2010 interface

• Selecting a flowchart template
• Working with the Shapes Window
• Adding shapes to a diagramme
• Adding text to a shape
• Aligning and distributing shapes
• Connecting shapes
• Changing connector properties
• Adding text to a connector
• Adding and removing shapes from a flow
• Saving a flowchart

• Creating a cross-functional flowchart
• Adding cross-functional groups (Swimlanes)
• Removing a cross-functional group (Swimlane)
• Adding shapes
• Adding text to a shape
• Connecting shapes
• Adding text and changing connector properties
• Adding and removing shapes
• Using and linking multiple worksheets
• Using sub-process

• Add custom data fields to a shape
• Add data to a shape
• Delete data from a shape
• Connect external data sources to shapes
• Link data to individual shapes
• Removing linked data from shapes

• Create an organisation chart
• Modify an organisation chart

• Add and edit diagramme data
• Create Hardware reports.