Microsoft Visio 2013 – Basic

This course will prepare students for the MS Visio: Basic skills.

Getting started

• The start page
• Discussing project management concepts
• Discussing project management tools

The Visio 2013 interface

• Identifying interface components
• Exploring Gantt Chart view

Windows, stencils, and objects

• Creating a project file
• Saving a project file
• Getting help with using Project

Drawing tools

• Basic shapes and lines
• Exploring user-controlled scheduling
• Adding tasks and durations in auto schedule mode
• Changing the scheduling mode for all new files

Compound lines

• Inserting and deleting tasks
• Rearranging tasks
• Formatting the task list

Editing objects

• Creating a project summary task
• Defining a Work Breakdown Structure
• Setting milestones
• Applying Gantt Chart styles

Basic diagrams

• Planning a diagram
• Linking and unlinking tasks
• Changing task predecessors
• Adding lead time and lag time to tasks
• Adding recurring tasks

Creating a basic diagram

• Exploring Network Diagram view
• Changing task relationships

Working with text

• Organization charts
• Changing a task type
• Applying task constraints

Formatting drawings

• Formatting text
• Creating a base calendar
• Formatting shapes and lines
• Creating a resource pool
• Creating a resource calendar
• Assigning a single resource to a task
• Assigning multiple tasks and resources
• Creating and applying a task calendar
• Entering resource costs
• Using the Cost table

Working with pages

• File and print properties
• Exploring Calendar view
• Applying Form views
• Working with the Timeline
• Copying a Timeline into PowerPoint
• Working with background pages
• Working with links
• Creating a table and displaying WBS codes

Networking and brainstorming diagrams

• Network diagrams
• Filtering and highlighting information
• Applying AutoFilters
• Creating a custom filter

Rack diagrams

• Grouping tasks
• Creating a custom group

Brainstorming diagrams

• Sorting a task list
• Sorting a resource list
• Renumbering a sorted resource list

Customization and reporting

• Layout and connection techniques
• Displaying critical tasks and free slack
• Editing effort-driven and non-effort-driven tasks
• Shape properties
• Reporting