Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 2. Creating a Diagram

Adding Shapes to a Diagram

Laying Out Shapes on the Page

Adding and Editing Pages

Quickly Formatting Shapes and Diagrams

The easiest way to create drawings is to drag master shapes from stencils and drop them on the drawing page. This is called drag-and-drop drawing. If you start your drawing based on a template, the shapes you need are docked on the left side of the Visio window. To assemble your diagram, you add shapes, connect them if necessary, and adjust the layout. To add a professional touch, you can apply quick formatting touches, such as a background or color scheme.

Not all drawings and diagrams go together in this way, but most of the business diagrams do. If you have Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 ...