Visio 2007 Training + Bonus: Spatial Planning with Visio 2007 - FREE!

Meet your instructor, Bill Kulterman and become familiar with the features of this course and the scenario that will guide you through your learning experience.

• About Your Instructor
• Who Should Take this Course?
• What do I Need to Know before I Start?
• Course Outline
• The Scenario
• Visio Rocks!

This introduction will give you a thorough understanding of the interface and how to use the essential features of Visio.

• Introduction
• What is Visio?
• Explore the Visio Interface
• The Getting Started Window
• A Look at Some Visio Drawings
• Navigating Around Visio

Learn the basics of creating a drawing using Visio shapes, templates, and themes.

• Working with Stencils and Shapes
• Visio Themes

Discover more about shapes, their properties, and how to work with them.

• Size and Position a Shape
• Select and Group Multiple Shapes
• Copying Shapes
• Using Add-ons
• Align and Distribute Multiple Shapes
• Formatting Shapes

This lesson will teach you how to use the Visio text tools, create text boxes, add text to shapes and format text.

• The Text Tools in Visio
• Control Your Text on the Page
• Changing the Look of the Text

This Video will give you a better understanding of flowchart theory and how to create more effective flowcharts depending on how you want to illustrate the process.

• Flowchart Theory
• Process Mapping
• Flowchart Symbols Explained
• Types of Connections
• Connecting Shapes in Visio
• Flow Chart Exercises

Add style, color and panache to your Visio drawings, remember, it is a visual tool after all.

• Borders and Titles
• Backgrounds
• Themes
• Put it All Together

Learn the ins and outs of using Visio to create an organizational flowchart, and get a taste of the data linking functions of Visio with the Org Chart Wizard.

• The Basic Organization Chart
• Org. Chart Layouts
• Using the Org. Chart Wizard
• The Shape Data Window
• More Options from the Org. Chart Menu and Adding Hyperlinks

Not good at giving directions? Use Visio to create a simple directional map.

• Examining Road and Map Shapes
• 3-D Maps

Learn to create your own custom shapes using Visio's drawing tools.

• Shape Masters
• 1-D and 2-D Shapes
• Basic Drawing Tools
• Drawing Complex Shapes
• More Drawing Tools

Assign behaviors to a shape, and add connection points. Learn to protect shapes, create and modify Shape Masters and convert an image into a Shape Master.

• Create Master Shapes and Modify Stencils
• Modify a Master Shape
• Controlling Shape Behaviors
• Protecting Your Master Shapes
• Creating Masters From Images
• Adding Connection Points

Think Excel is the only way to make charts and graphs? Exercise more control over your charts and graphs with Visio and discover how to create exciting marketing templates.

• Building a Bar Chart
• 3-D Bar Graphs
• Pie Charts
• Line Graphs
• Marketing Diagrams and Shapes

Introducing the new Pivot Diagrams in Visio, a visually exciting way of presenting data. Customize data in your diagrams using Data Graphics.

• Linking Data to Our Org. Chart
• Pivot Diagrams
• Using Visio to Create a Pivot Diagram
• Updating the Data in a Pivot Diagram
• Adding Data Graphics

In this lesson you'll create a floor plan, find out about adding scale to your drawings, and how to adjust print settings. You'll also discover the use of layers in Visio.

• Defining the Space
• Divide the Space
• Let's Grow a Cube Farm
• Working with Layers

Send a Visio drawing for others to review, learn to markup a drawing, as well as track and apply changes. We will also download, install, and use the Save as PDF or XPS add-in from Microsoft.

• The Reviewing and Ink Toolbars
• Reviewing and Tracking Markup

We'll explore the Network diagramming tools Visio has to offer and add hyperlinks to a drawing.

• Active Directory Logical Network Diagrams
• Physical Network Diagrams
• Rack Diagrams
• Adding Hyperlinks to a Visio Drawing

• Create Master Shapes from a Database
• Space Planning
• Designating Space
• he Import Data Add-On

• Adding Resources and Categories to a Shape
• Importing Updated Data
• Color Code the Drawing
• Run and Modify Reports

• Web Site Mapping
• The List Window
• The Filter Window
• Site Map Settings and Layout
• Sub Pages
• Page Centric View
• Run Reports
• Conceptual Web Site Planning

• Bill's Guide to Visio Help, and Other Online Resources
• Templates, Shapes, and More