
Advance your Microsoft Visio skills by customizing shapes and stencils with drawing tools and master shapes. Create styles and templates to standardize drawings, save time with macros, use floor plans.
Create custom shapes in Visio by using basic drawing tools, free-form and arc options, and transforming open shapes into closed, filled forms with alignment and sizing controls.
Explore visio shape operation commands to unite shapes into a single new form, then use fragment, intersect, subtract, join, trim, and offsets with the developer tab and shape sheets.
Create and save custom Visio stencils, add shapes as masters, rename them, and reuse by dragging into the stencil and saving to a custom shapes folder.
Create and customize a new master in a Visio stencil, edit its master shape, add connection points, and set behavior and protection options to control text, placement, and rotation.
Define a new Visio style, basing it on an existing one, and apply text, fill, and line formatting, including gradient fills, bold 14 pt Comic Sans, and orange rounded corners.
Learn to create a custom Visio template from a blank drawing, set landscape orientation and title boxes, add personal stencils, and save as a Visio template for reuse.
Set up an office layout in Visio by selecting an office layout stencil, adjusting the drawing scale, adding walls, doors, windows, and furniture, and using guides for precise placement.
Lock and manage Visio layers to control walls, guides, and dimensions, assign furniture and custom shapes or stencils to specific layers, and adjust visibility for printing.
Learn to create an organization chart in Visio using organization chart wizard and external data from Excel, mapping the name and reports to fields, and adding shape data and pictures.
Import project data from Excel into Visio to create a Gantt chart, map fields like task name and predecessors, and customize the timescale.
Link Visio shapes to an Access database by selecting the products table and fields like product name, price, and stock, then create data graphics that refresh with database updates.
Link a Visio drawing to a Word document by pasting as a link, enabling automatic updates when the Visio file changes.
Export Visio diagrams to formats such as pdf, web pages, and vector graphics by using save as or export, selecting pages and including properties.
Learn to create and record a basic Visio macro to automate placing shapes, save as a macro-enabled drawing, and run the macro from the developer tab.
Learn to edit and run a basic Visio macro by enabling content, exploring macros in the developer tab, debugging errors, and changing drawing themes with Visual Basic.
Learn to use Visio shape sheets to control shape properties, link height proportionally to width with formulas, guard formulas with the DART function, and keep text horizontal as shapes rotate.
Do you want to be a Power User of Visio?
We teach you the skills to get there: not just in learning to do things, but in controlling your work and automating what you do.
With every ZandaX Microsoft course, you get a workbook and exercises (downloadable from the “General Introduction” module at the start of each course). These are NOT "follow along" exercises to use during the course, but new exercises you can use afterwards to practice the skills using different examples. People tell us this is a better way to learn because it provides an opportunity to work with new data.
Our Microsoft instructors are seasoned professionals - they don't just know the software: they've used it commercially and taught it in a classroom environment for years. You won't be in better hands!
And we don’t waffle! Do you want to sit through hours of over-explaining before you get the knowledge you need? We doubt it! So we make sure that everything is covered in easy-to-follow video lessons, and we get to the point so you make the best use of your time.
You’ll learn a lot in the course, but some of the major topics include:
Customizing Shapes & Stencils and Editing Masters
Designing Styles and Templates
Creating Floor Plans and Office Layouts
Working With External Data (including Excel and Gantt Charts)
Using Other Programs (including Word and Web Pages)
Using Macros to Automate Tasks
Each lecture is self-contained, so you don’t need to sit through them all: once you’re at a comfortable level, you’ll be able to use this as your reference library, where you can select what you want to view.
The course is aimed at existing users of Microsoft Visio who want to take advantage of what the package can offer to improve the impact of their documents and reports.
Upon completion (and with a little practice…) you will not only be able to create more diverse and better quality diagrams, but also work with data, other software packages and automate your tasks.
We’ll say it again: don’t forget the course workbooks and exercises – downloadable with the first “General Introduction” module at the start of each course – which really enhance and deepen your learning. Remember that practice makes perfect!
So this course is genuinely much more than just a set of talk-through videos. We don’t think you’ll find better value, so why not enroll with us now?