Quickly create flowcharts and workflows using a range of shapes, layouts and designs.

Open participant course: £195 per person - maximum 10 people

Closed company course: £1,000 per course - maximum 10 people

Those who need to create professional drawings such as flowcharts and organisation charts with multiple pages and linked data, and create templates and stencils to use as a basis for multiple drawings.

By the end of the course, you will be able to create templates that will be used as a base for new drawings, create shapes and stencils that are used repeatedly within drawings, and use layers to build complex illustrations.

Visio Essential Skills:

• Creating drawings using templates
• Exploring the Visio interface
• Panning and zooming
• Opening, saving and closing drawings

All About Shapes:

• Working with the shapes window
• Inserting stencil shapes
• Moving, copying, resizing and deleting
• Arranging shapes
• Adding text and working with text blocks
• Formatting text and shapes
• Applying drawing themes

Creating Flowcharts:

• Dynamically connecting shapes
• Modifying connections
• Cross-functional flowcharts

Page Layout and Printing:

• Changing the page layout and paper size
• Page breaks
• Inserting and deleting pages
• Renaming and moving pages
• Adding headers and footers
• Foreground and background pages
• Print preview and print options

Organisation Charts:

• Creating organisation charts
• Modifying organisation chart layouts
• Using the organisation chart wizard 

Object Linking and Embedding:

• Linking and embedding objects
• Inserting objects in drawings
• Exporting drawings
• Linking drawing pages
• Creating and using hyperlinks
• On-page and off-page reference shape.

Managing Stencils, Shapes and Templates:

• Protecting shapes
• Creating shapes and stencils
• Creating templates
• Creating drawings from templates
• Modifying templates

This course can be delivered remotely or in a classroom environment, to suit your requirements.

Course attendees should be able to work confidently within a Windows environment, and ideally another Microsoft application such as Word or PowerPoint.

Attendees must have the following equipment to attend this training remotely:

• PC or laptop with a microphone and speakers (webcam is preferred but not essential).
• Access to the internet and web browser application (e.g. Google Chrome).
• Microsoft Excel installed on the PC or laptop.
• An email account for file sharing.
• A second screen is ideal but not essential.