Visio Professional 5.0 Advanced Topics

Course description

Overview: Students will learn advanced concepts for creating drawings and  linking data sources to drawings.

Prerequisites: Visio basic or equivalent knowledge.

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:

     *    Create custom shapes

     *    Create and use custom stencils

     *    Share drawings in a variety of formats

     *    Create advanced flowchart diagrams

     *    Create Adobe®  Acrobat? documents from drawings

     *    Set custom features for shapes

     *    Link to databases

     *    Display and manage linked data

     *    Work with layers

     *    Use special drawing features

Course content

   Lesson 1 Before You Begin

     To The Instructor/Reader

     Course Overview

     Chapter Overviews

     About the Manual

     Manual Conventions

   Lesson 2 Cross-functional Flowcharting

     Setting File Properties

     Page Setup

     Creating and Applying Background Pages

     Using Guides

     Gluing Shapes to Guides

     Placing Text Along Lines

     Adding Custom Shapes

     Adding Detail Pages

     Linking Pages within a Drawing

     Creating Dynamic Connectors

     Using the Page Layout Wizard

   Lesson 3 Sharing Your Work

      Understanding OLE

      Placing Objects in MS Word

      Using the Paste Link Command

      Editing Linked Objects

      Using Drag and Drop

      Copying Shapes From Stencils

      Converting Drawings to HTML

      Creating Presentations

      Using the Local Stencil

      Controlling Drawings from the

      Local Stencil

      Creating Acrobat PDF Files

      Adding Links for PDF Files

   Lesson 4 Drawings and Data

      Custom Properties

      Creating Custom Properties

      Running Property Reports

      Property Report Wizard

      Formatting the Property Reporting Shape

      Updating all Shapes on a Layer

      Reporting Individual Shape Data

      Linking to Outside Data Sources

      The Database Wizard

      The ODBC Administrator

      Working with Linked Data

   Lesson 5 Advanced Custom Shape Design

      Special Drawing Operations

      Reshaping Objects

      Preliminary Planning for Shape Design

      Adding Functionality

      Protecting Shapes

      Assigning Double-click Actions

      SmartShape Wizard

      Creating Custom Stencils

      Creating and Editing Master Shapes

      Creating Shapes from Imported Objects

      Adding Custom Stencils to Visio Menus

   Lesson 6 Working with Layers

      Understanding Layers

      Layer Membership

      Assigning Shapes to Layers

      Creating Layers

      Creating Layers with Shapes

      Setting Layer Properties

      Controlling Layer Display