NEW! Advanced Visio Training Course – Specialist

Is it right for me?

Our Visio Specialist course is designed for existing users of Visio who would like to learn more advanced application features, and improve efficiency with the use of layers, stencils, and data imports.You should have attended our Visio Principles course or have equivalent knowledge.

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Create your own templates, stencils and shapes
• Work with layers
• Add custom properties to shapes
• Create advanced Line and Gant Charts
• Configure and structure Pivot Diagrams with imported data

Versions Available

2003, 2007, 2010

Related courses in our range

• Visio Principles
• PowerPoint
• Publisher

What does it cover?

• Creating Custom stencils
• Creating a new stencil
• Searching for and downloading Stencil Sets
• Adding shapes to a stencil

Working with templates

• Creating a template
• Finding the template path
• Associating a stencil to a template

Working with shapes and layers

• Showing and hiding shapes on layers
• Creating new layers
• Assigning a master shape to a layer
• Working with layers on background pages
• Groups and layers

Working with custom properties

• Adding custom properties to a shape
• Adding shape data to a shape (2007 and 2010)
• Editing a shape master’s custom properties
• Deleting a property
• Creating custom property sets (2003)
• Creating shape data sets (2007 and 2010)
• Using Data Graphics

Creating line and Gant Charts

• Creating Line and Gant Charts
• Importing/exporting data
• Publishing Charts and graphs

Working with Pivot Diagrams

• Configuring Data Sources
• Pivot Diagram creation
• Adding data categories
• Modifying layouts
• Using Themes (2007 and 2010)
• Adding Data Graphics

Visio reporting

• Exporting data to a report in Excel
• Exporting to HTML
• Creating/Customizing reports