How to Create and Manage Diagrams with Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Visio is a powerful tool for creating diagrams, flowcharts, and other visual representations of data and processes. In this course, you will learn how to use Visio to design and communicate your ideas effectively. You will explore the Visio interface, create and modify shapes, add and edit text, connect and align objects, and apply formatting options. You will also learn how to create different types of diagrams, such as organizational charts, network diagrams, business process models, and floor plans. By the end of this course, you will be able to use Visio to create professional-looking diagrams that enhance your presentations and reports.

Course content is listed here:

Basic shapes and connectors, using layers, layer properties, containers, shpae numbering and locking layers

Flowcharts, using shape data, adding shape data, linking sheets

Organisational Charts, synchronise shapes, off page references, shape data

Project schedule

Timeline

Gantt charts, update tasks, add columns, shape data and linking tasks

Pivot Diagrams, add nodes, change data layout

Floor plans, office plans, garden plan, kitchen plan

Maps and charts

Reports into Excel, create your own reports

Linking to Excel and from Excel

Customising shapes, searching for shapes and adding stencils from other diagrams

Creating your own stencil and shapes

Using data graphics, linking external data with data graphics

Using the document stencil to customise shapes

Using the developer tab to lock and unlock shapes