Visio 2002 Professional : Level 2 (Windows)

Course Description

Overview: In this course, you will expand on the knowledge you gained in the course. You will work with many advanced features, including using the drawing tools, creating and working with custom stencils and templates, and sharing your Visio drawings with other applications.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following Element K course or have equivalent knowledge:

·           Visio 2002 Professional: Level 1 for Windows:

Performance-Based Objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

·           Open and manipulate toolbars and stencil windows in the work area.

·           Change background settings to enhance specific drawings.

·           Use the drawing tools and Operation command features to create new custom shapes.

·           Integrate both simple and complex custom shapes in a drawing.

·           Create new masters in a stencil and edit masters.

·           Use the Document stencil to quickly take inventory of all the shapes used in a drawing.

·           Create a new custom template and use it to quickly create a drawing.

·           Create and use styles to quickly format multiple shapes in a drawing.

·           Use layers to organize and control shapes in a drawing.

·           Link a Visio drawing within a Microsoft Word document and update any changes.

·           Link shapes in a drawing to information contained in an external database.

·           Convert a drawing to a Web page.

·           Use several techniques for preparing a drawing for printing.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Customizing Visio

Topic 1A: Working with Toolbars

Task 1A-1: Opening Toolbars

Task 1A-2: Dragging and Dropping Toolbars

Task 1A-3: Adding Commands to Toolbars

Topic 1B: Working with Windows

Task 1B-1: Working with Stencil Windows

Task 1B-2: Merging Visio Windows

Lesson 2: Using the Drawing Tools

Topic 2A: Drawing Basics

Task 2A-1: Drawing Closed Shapes

Task 2A-2: Drawing Lines and Arcs

Task 2A-3: Drawing Segmented Lines

Task 2A-4: Reshaping Lines

Topic 2B: Advanced Drawing Techniques

Task 2B-1: Drawing with Precision

Task 2B-2: Using Operation Commands

Lesson 3: Custom Shapes

Topic 3A: Using Custom Shapes

Task 3A-1: Creating a Custom Shape

Topic 3B: Using Custom Shapes in a Drawing

Task 3B-1: Enhancing a Drawing with Custom Shapes

Task 3B-2: Using the Maximum Graphx Logo Shape in a Drawing

Task 3B-3: Using Custom Shapes to Enhance Existing Shapes

Lesson 4: Advanced Stencil Techniques

Topic 4A: Custom Stencils

Task 4A-1: Creating a New Stencil

Task 4A-2: Adding Custom Shapes to a Stencil

Topic 4B: Customizing Stencil Masters

Task 4B-1: Editing Master Properties

Task 4B-2: Formatting a Master in a Stencil

Task 4B-3: Adding and Directing Connection Points

Task 4B-4: Applying Behaviors to a Custom Shape

Task 4B-5: Using the Maximum Graphx Master

Topic 4C: The Document Stencil

Task 4C-1: Retrieving Shapes from the Document Stencil

Lesson 5: Templates, Styles, and Layers

Topic 5A: Working with Templates

Task 5A-1: Creating a New Template

Task 5A-2: Using a Custom Template

Topic 5B: Formatting and Linking Shapes

Task 5B-1: Defining New Styles

Task 5B-2: Applying and Editing Styles

Task 5B-3: Adding Links to Shapes

Topic 5C: Layers

Task 5C-1: Viewing Layer Properties

Task 5C-2: Manipulating Layers

Lesson 6: Sharing Your Work

Topic 6A: Object Linking and Embedding

Task 6A-1: Placing a Visio Drawing in MS Word

Task 6A-2: Updating the Calendar

Topic 6B: Working with External Data

Task 6B-1: Preparing Shapes in the Document Stencil

Task 6B-2: Using the Database Wizard

Task 6B-3: Distributing Information in a Linked Network Diagram

Topic 6C: Creating HTML Documents

Task 6C-1: Preparing a Drawing for the Web

Task 6C-2: Saving the Timeline as a Web Page

Topic 6D: Printing Techniques

Task 6D-1: Using the Print Preview Feature

Task 6D-2: Working with Page Breaks