
Discover Visio 2019 basics for beginners and users of earlier versions, and learn the diagram tool’s core capabilities along with course files and resources.
Launch Visio 2019 and explore the start screen for recent diagrams. Pin the app to start or the taskbar for quick access, and use backstage to save and open drawings.
Explore Visio's comprehensive help system, screen tips, and Tell Me search to quickly access commands like copy and insert text box, customize tips, and connect with support and training videos.
Explore Visio text basics by distinguishing text boxes, text shapes, and text blocks, then align, rotate, and format text across diagrams and connectors.
Saving and reopening a Visio file preserves the workspace layout, including the ribbon, shapes window, and zoom, while some settings like size and position follow last use.
Master Visio automation with auto connect, auto add, and auto delete to quickly build network diagrams and flowcharts, guided by Visio options and quick shapes.
Microsoft Visio remains the go-to tool for professional-looking diagrams, flow charts, and org charts.
In this comprehensive, Microsoft Visio 2019 online course from Microsoft experts, Simon Sez IT, we teach you how to use Visio quickly and effectively. We start by looking at how to use the Visio workspace before moving onto how to connect and resize shapes. After that, we look at adding text and images into Visio and how to use the Visio automation features as well as pan and zoom.
We then move onto a deep dive into creating Organization Charts in Visio before looking at styles and colors in Visio. After that, we look at how to add ScreenTips in Visio as well as comments and callouts.
This course includes downloadable exercises so you can put into practice exactly what you learn.
After taking this course, you will know:
How to use the Visio Workspace
How to connect and resize shapes
How to add text into the Visio Workspace
How to use Visio automation features and pan and zoom
All about building Organization Charts in Visio
How to use the Visio Backstage view
About Themes, Styles, and Colors in Visio
How to add ScreenTips, Comments, and Callouts in Visio
About working with pictures in Visio
About Groups, Containers, Lists, and Cross-Functional Flowcharts
How to align shapes in Visio
How to use Hyperlinks in Visio
All about reporting and custom templates in Visio
This course includes:
8+ hours of video tutorials
73 individual video lectures
Exercise files to practice what you learned
Certificate of completion
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