Duration

1 day(s)

Audience

Information Workers who want to create flowcharts (process diagrams) with Microsoft Visio 2010

Prerequisites

A basic windows experience is required.

Objectives

After having followed this training the students will be able to create flowcharts with MS Visio 2010.

Methods

Instructor-led training with exercices. Each student disposes of his own workstation.

Description

The course is divided in two parts :The morning part contains all basic operations needed to create a flowchart with Visio. The afternoon part will handle several advanced topics that can be used to enhance the flowcharts created in the first part.

Contents

• The basics of creating flowcharts with Visio
  • Introduction to the usage of Visio
  • Creating a cross-functional flowchart diagram
  • Usage of swimming lanes
  • Adding shapes to a flowchart diagram
  • Connecting the shapes of a flowchart
  • Basic formatting of shapes and connection lines on the flowchart
  • Adding text to a flowchart
  • Working with multiple page flowcharts
  • Save and print the flowchart diagram
• Advanced topics to be used with flowcharts in Visio
  • Working with multiple layers
  • Adding hyperlinks into your flowcharts
  • Advanced formatting of pages and shapes
  • Creating your own customized company stencil and template(s)
  • Storing data fields into a flowchart
  • Exporting the flowchart to other file formats (pdf, html, jpg,…)
  • Linking a flowchart to external data sources (ex. XLS) to include data fields (only available in Professional and Premium edition !)
  • Validation of flowcharts by using Visio rules (only available in Premium edition !)
  • Validation of BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) flowcharts (only available in Premium edition !)