Visio Professional 2003 Advanced, 2nd Edition Study Guide

1-4239-1383-3 © 2007 Publish date: June 10, 2006 232 pages

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Course ID:Visio-2003-adv-2nd-sg

If you've been using Visio for the creation of flowcharts and diagrams and are ready to upgrade your skills, choose the Visio Professional 2003 Advanced study guide from our selection of computer training books. This is an excellent training tool to teach yourself advanced functions and techniques for using Visio Professional to its full potential.

This Visio Professional 2003 Advanced courseware is rated 4.8/5.0 in overall quality by ProCert Labs. You will build upon the concepts, techniques, and skills you learned in the basic course. By following this study guide, you will learn how to create, assign, and customize Visio drawing layers, how to create complex shapes, how to work with formulas and functions, How to add pre-defined actions and custom shape behaviors, and how to create custom stencils. You will also work with the custom drawing templates, use styles, and learn how to use Visio's Web-enabling features.

In addition to all of these advanced techniques, the Visio Professional 2003 Advanced courseware also covers integrating your Visio drawings with other Microsoft programs including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook.

By choosing a self-directed study Microsoft Visio training program such as this one, you can learn advanced Visio skills without taking time off of work to attend time-consuming classes.

Course Objectives

By following this courseware, you will learn about layers, drawing scales, dimension lines, creating complex shapes, creating and editing formulas and functions, adding predefined actions and custom shape behaviors to shapes, specifying behaviors for double-click actions, and creating custom stencils. You will also work with block diagrams, flowcharts, project management diagrams, and organization charts.

Other topics include detailed network diagrams, network data reports, Web site maps, Web site links reports, program window, system diagrams, database model diagrams, reverse engineering tables from existing databases, working with background pages, styles, custom templates, Web features, and integrating Visio drawings with other Microsoft programs including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces technical layouts

• Layers
• Drawing scales
• Precision techniques
• Dimensioning

Unit 2 discusses advanced custom shape design

• Special drawing operations
• Shape behavior and events
• Custom stencils

Unit 3 covers business diagrams

• Block diagrams
• Flowcharts
• Organization charts
• Project management diagrams

Unit 4 discusses network diagrams and Web site mapping

• Creating detailed network diagrams
• Web site maps

Unit 5 covers software and database diagrams

• Documenting software systems
• Database model diagrams

Unit 6 discusses using templates

• Working with templates and styles
• Custom templates

Unit 7 covers integrating Visio with other Microsoft programs

• Integrating with Microsoft Word
• Integrating with PowerPoint presentations
• Integrating with Microsoft Outlook
• Using Visio's Web-enabling features