Visio Training Class - introduction
Visio Class
In this Microsoft Visio course learn the leading application for creating business diagrams, organization charts, flowcharts, and network diagrams. Discover how to use Visio to create floorplans, timelines, and brainstorming diagrams. Learn to use incorporate data into Visio diagrams to visualize key performance indicators and other metrics in context. In this one-day Visio course participants learn the mechanics of creating different types of diagrams, as well as how to use themes and styles to make drawings look more professional.
Why Visio classes at AGI are the best option for you
- Hands-on learning: Learn Visio quickly with our proven teaching methods.
- Exceptional curriculum: AGI has delivered Visio training to thousands over 25 years.
- Expert instructors: Our instructors are Visio experts and skilled educators.
- Small class sizes: Receive personalized attention with 10 or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for Free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the Visio class at no cost.
Ways to attend this Visio Course
- Live Online classes from your office or home as a regularly scheduled small group class.
- Live, in-person regularly scheduled Visio classes in Boston or Philadelphia with a live instructor in the same classroom.
- Private training customized to your specific needs delivered in-person or online. Call 781-376-6044 or complete the Private Visio Training form for more information.
All Visio classes include
Free retake
Detailed curriculum
Live instructor
Flexible rescheduling
Certificate of Completion
Small class sizes
Course recording
Visio Training Class Topics
- Using Visio’s built-in templates and stencils
- Creating custom shapes and templates
- Positioning and sizing shapes
- Leveraging AutoConnect, QuickShapes, and AutoAdd
- Managing lines and connectors
- Working with text in Visio
- Incorporating images
- Working with colors, styles, and themes
- Linking Visio diagrams to data in Excel
- Visualizing data in a diagram and building Visio dashboards
- Sharing diagrams with non-Visio users
- Generating Visio diagrams from data
Visio Training Class - introduction - Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
Lesson 1: Visio Essentials
- Key pages and commands in Visio
- Understand tool tabs and add-in tabs
- Use tool tabs
- Use add-in tabs
- Using starter diagrams
- Explore the drawing window
- Using Shapes window
- Pan and zoom in the drawing window
Lesson 2: Creating diagrams with Visio
- Place shapes using the Dynamic Grid
- Select shapes
- Copy, paste, and duplicate shapes
- Position shapes by using rulers and guides
- Use rulers and guides to align and size shapes
- Resize, reposition, and reorient shapes
- Use the Size & Position window
- Connect shapes by using lines
- Create 2-D shapes using the line tools
- Connect shapes by using dynamic connectors
- Connect to shapes that contain connection points
- Connect to shapes that do not contain connection points
- Change connector style and segmentation
- Use AutoConnect and Quick Shapes
- Use AutoAdd and AutoDelete
Lesson 3: Manage text, shapes, and pages in Visio
- Manage shape text
- Add text to shapes
- Reposition and resize shape text
- Orient shape text
- Create and format text
- Add ScreenTips and comments
- Insert pictures
- Replace shapes
- Group shapes
- Understanding and using layers
- Manage pages
- Work with foreground pages
- Configure foreground pages
- Manage Auto Size
- Work with background pages and borders
Lesson 4: Create business process diagrams using Visio
- Select a flowchart template
- Create flowcharts
- Understanding and building swimlane diagrams
- Design BPMN diagrams
- Create subprocesses
Lesson 5: Use Visio to create organization charts
- Understand organization charts
- Using org chart templates
- Building organization charts manually
- Use existing data to create an organization chart
- Use the Organization Chart Wizard with new data
- Alter layout and appearance
- Arranging shapes and changing appearance
- Apply themes
- Import photographs into organization charts
Lesson 6: Add style, color, and themes to Visio diagrams and charts
- Align and space shapes
- Align and space shapes automatically
- Understand theme concepts
- Apply themes and variants
- Customize themes and variants
- Use effects and Quick Styles
- Apply solid, gradient, and pattern fills
- Apply line colors and patterns
- Use the Format Painter
Lesson 7: Print and share diagrams
- Preview and print drawings
- Remove personal information
- Create graphics
- Save drawings in other file formats
- Create templates
- Share diagrams by using the Visio Viewer
- Publish diagrams to the web
- Set publishing options
Custom and private Visio classes
This Visio course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. Visio classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.
A computer with Microsoft Visio is provided for use for this class in our classrooms. We recommend that you have Visio installed on your own computer to allow for you to continue to use Visio after class.
You will receive a comprehensive Visio book developed by the instructor. This Visio training book is published by Microsoft Press. You will learn directly from an expert instructor.