Microsoft Visio 2016 Foundation Training Materials

FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND

• Opening a drawing within Visio 2016
• The shapes window
• Shape window stencils
• Masters
• Quick shapes
• The drawing window
• The current drawing page
• Splitting the window display
• Minimizing the shapes window
• Minimising the ribbon
• Rulers
• Page tabs
• Scroll bars
• Visio status bar
• Zoom controls
• Fit page to current window
• Switching between Visio windows
• Visio help
• Help videos

USING VISIO TEMPLATES

• Creating a new diagram
• Using a different template
• Searching for video templates

SHAPES AND CONNECTORS

• Adding shapes to the drawing area
• The connector & pointer tools
• Inserting a different shape
• Adding text to the shape
• Adding text to a connector
• Deleting a connector
• Moving , resizing & deleting shapes

BACKGROUNDS, BORDERS, TITLES & THEMES

• Adding a background
• Applying borders and titles
• Applying design themes

FORMATTING TEXT & SHAPES

• Formatting commands
• Changing the font type
• Font size
• Font style, bold, italic and underline
• Font colour and case
• More font formatting options
• More paragraph formatting options
• Horizontally text alignment
• Vertical text alignment
• Changing the line indent
• Text rotation
• Bullets

FORMATTING SHAPES

• Shape fill colour
• Shape line colour and thickness
• Shape effects
• Modifying connection arrows
• Rounding shape corners

MANIPULATING SHAPES

• Grouping shapes
• Ungrouping shapes
• Ordering shapes
• Bringing a shape to the front
• Sending a shape to the back
• Sending shapes forwards or backwards
• Rotating a shape to the left or right
• Free rotating a shape
• Rotating text within a shape
• Flipping a shape horizontally and vertically
• Aligning shapes vertically and horizontally
• Distributing shapes
• Adjusting shape layout

FORMATTING CONNECTORS

• Using curved connectors
• Using straight connectors
• Using right angle connectors
• Setting line jump options

USING SNAP AND GLUE

• Snapping and gluing
• Displaying the snap and glue dialog box
• Using glue to shape
• Using glue to connection point

USING LAYERS

• Layers
• Assigning a shape to a layer
• Showing and hiding layers

MANAGING PAGES

• Moving between pages
• Inserting a new page
• Renaming , reordering & deleting pages
• Creating a background page
• Assigning a background page

PRINTING AND SHARING DRAWINGS

• Spell checking
• Paper size and orientation
• Print preview