Visio Essential Skills

This course is designed for new users of flowcharting and Visio who need to create flow or organisation charts.

Our aim is to provide you with the necessary skills for creating effective consistent and readable flowcharts for your organisation, company or work flow and so forth.

We will introduce many time-saving features using quick keys and short cuts.

It is important that you use your new skills as soon as possible on completion of this training course. We encourage you to take your own notes and to review this Course Guide once you are back at your workplace.

Anyone who wants to gain more confidence in using Visio. Maybe you’ve just started using it in your new role or perhaps you’ve been using it for years but aren’t sure if you’re doing things the ‘right’ way. This course will give you the skills and confidence you need to start using Visio effectively.

We recommend that students have:

• Good mouse skills
• A good idea of what they need to flowchart
• Some graphic background
• Understanding of file management

This course is designed to introduce you to Microsoft Visio. We will create Flowcharts, Organisation Charts, Office Floorplans and more. We will learn how to customise stencils, insert hyperlinks, print and share our Visio diagrams. You will be able to easily create diagrams with a professional edge.

• Introduction to Visio
• Starting a Visio Diagram
• Diagram and Flowcharting Construction
• Placing Guides, Shapes & Connectors
• Adding Text
• Cross Functional Flowcharts
• Shapes, Views and drawing tools
• Page and Print Setup
• Custom Properties
• Customising Stencils
• Linking Diagrams
• Organisation Charts
• Office Floor Plan
• Layers
• Templates
• Visio Project Planning
• Cause and Effect Diagrams
• Printing and Sharing