Visio Quick Tips

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Free Online Course: Visio Quick Tips provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Visio Quick Tips is taught by Scott Helmers.

Overview
  • Get quick answers to your most urgent Visio questions. This course contains more than two dozen bite-sized tips for working efficiently in Visio, the popular diagramming software.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Visio quick tips
    1. Working with Shapes
    • Restore a missing Shapes pane
    • AutoConnect and Quick Shapes
    • Dynamic grid: Position shapes on the page
    • Dynamic grid: Align and resize shapes
    • Duplicate shapes
    • Align and distribute shapes
    • Draw rectangles, squares, ellipses, and circles
    • Draw straight lines, arcs, and freeform lines
    • Organize shapes with containers
    • Work with swimlanes
    • Lines vs. dynamic connectors
    • Use static glue
    • Use dynamic glue
    2. Working with Text
    • Add text to shapes
    • Move the text block to a new location
    • Best practices for text
    3. Working with Pages
    • Top five pan and zoom shortcuts
    • Top four diagram navigation shortcuts
    • Create background pages for logos and graphics
    • Create background pages with borders and title blocks
    • Duplicate pages
    • Create PowerPoint slides from a Visio diagram
    • Temporarily suspend snap to grid
    4. Leveraging Data
    • Find the Shape Data window
    • Utilize Shape Data fields
    • Run reports
    • Link to external data
    • Link data to shapes
    • Create shapes from external data
    • Update external data and refresh diagrams
    Conclusion
    • Next steps