Microsoft® Visio® 2016: Part 2
Microsoft® Visio® stands out among similar applications because of its unique ability to draw a wide variety of diagrams, flowcharts, workflows, and organization structures—anything that can be represented by shapes connected by lines. Most importantly, these shapes can be rearranged and with corresponding lines remaining intact. Visio has improved over the years as features common among Microsoft® Office applications have been added. Today, Visio is well integrated with other members of the Office family as well as Microsoft's cloud-based services. This greatly enriches the sharing and publishing of Visio drawings.
In Microsoft® Visio® 2016: Part 1, you learned the basic skills needed to create and modify various Visio drawings. In Microsoft® Visio® 2016: Part 2, you will learn about more advanced features—making you a more efficient and effective Visio user.
In this course, you will examine advanced features to make you more efficient and effective.
You will:
- Design advanced plans and diagrams.
- Enhance the look of drawings.
- Create shapes, stencils, and templates.
- Connect drawings to external data.
- Leverage development tools.
- Share drawings.
- Use diagram standards (optional).
To ensure your success in this course, you should have the ability to create basic workflows and other common diagram types in Visio. You can obtain this level of knowledge and skills by taking the following United States Career Campus course:
- Microsoft® Visio® 2016: Part 1
This course includes activities that involve using software such as Excel, Access, and Project. While the listed courses are not mandatory, you can still benefit by taking the following United States Career Campus courses to gain an understanding of the basics of the software used with Visio in this course:
- Microsoft® Excel® 2016: Part 1
- Microsoft® Access® 2016: Part 1
- Microsoft® Project 2016: Part 1
- Microsoft® Windows® 10
- Microsoft® Visio® Professional 2016
- Microsoft® Office Professional 2016
- Microsoft® Project Professional 2016
- Adobe® Reader® (latest version)
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:
- 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor with SSE2 instruction set
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 3 GB of available hard disk space
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- DirectX 10 graphics card (1,280 × 800 resolution monitor recommended) for graphics hardware acceleration
- DVD-ROM drive (if installing any software from a DVD-ROM)
- Network cards and cabling for local network access
- Internet access with no password required (through Wi-Fi, cabled Ethernet, or mobile broadband)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Lesson 1: Designing
Advanced Plans and Diagrams
Topic A: Create a
Microsoft Account and Log in to Visio
Topic B: Build
Advanced Plans
Topic C: Build
Advanced Diagrams
Lesson 2: Enhancing the
Look of Drawings
Topic A: Use 3-D
Shapes
Topic B: Work with
Shape Styles
Topic C: Define Shape
Styles
Topic D: Apply
Backgrounds, Borders, and Titles
Lesson 3: Working with
Custom Shapes, Stencils, and Templates
Topic A: Create Simple
Custom Shapes
Topic B: Create Custom
Stencils
Topic C: Create Custom
Templates
Lesson 4: Connecting
Drawings to External Data
Topic A: Make an
Organization Chart from an Excel Spreadsheet
Topic B: Generate a
Pivot Diagram from an Excel Spreadsheet
Topic C: Create a
Gantt Chart from a Project File
Topic D: Create a
Timeline from a Project File
Topic E: Connect a Map
to an Access Database
Lesson 5: Leveraging
Development Tools
Topic A: Create Macros
Topic B: Modify
ShapeSheets
Topic C: Build
Advanced Shapes
Lesson 6: Sharing Drawings
Topic A: Save and
Share Drawings with OneDrive
Topic B: Review
Drawings
Topic C: Insert
Drawings into Other Office Files
Topic D: Export
Drawings
Topic E: Print
Drawings
Appendix A: Using Diagram Standards