Visio Quick Tips

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.

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