DURATION: 1 DAY

Course Overview

Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2013: Advanced is the second course in the Microsoft Visio 2013 series. In Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2013: Basic, you used the various templates to design and manage workflows and flowcharts. This course will build upon the knowledge gained, and enable you to work with many advanced features, including using the drawing tools, creating and working with custom stencils and templates, and sharing your Visio drawings with other applications.

Target Audience

This course is designed for individuals who have an understanding of the basic workflow and the concept of end-to-end flowcharting.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with personal computers, mouse, and keyboard (basic typing skills are recommended). They should be comfortable in the Windows environment and be able to use Windows to manage information on their computers. Specifically, they should be able to launch and close programs, navigate to information stored on the computer, and manage files and folders. Apart from these, the user should be familiar with Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2013: Basic. Also, a basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access would be helpful but is not required.

Course Outline

Module 1: Enhancing the look of drawings

• Create a Microsoft account and sign in to Visio
• Work with shape styles
• Use 3D shapes
• Apply backgrounds, borders and titles
• Define shape styles
  

Module 2: Creating shapes, stencils and templates

• Create simple custom shapes
• Create custom stencils
• Create custom templates
  

Module 3: Connecting drawings to external data

• Make an organization chart from an Excel spreadsheet
• Create a pivot table from Excel
• Create a Gantt chart from a project file (project must be installed)
• Create a timeline from a Project file
• Connect a map to an access database
  

Module 4: Leveraging development tools

• Create macros
• Modify shape sheets
• Build advanced shapes
  

Module 5: Sharing drawings

• Save and share drawings with OneDrive
• Review drawings
• Insert drawings into other Office files
• Export drawings
• Print drawings

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