Book description
Reveal your inner business artist with Visio
Turn your ideas into diagrams and drawings with Visio's stencils and templates
If you have an idea you want to get down on electronic paper, Visio 2007 is for you, and so is this book! They're both flexible and user-friendly. Here's how to use Visio to capture ideas from simple to intricate, update data in a drawing with a single click, add and manipulate text, work with connectors, and more.
Discover how to
Create business, engineering, software, or network diagrams
Format an entire drawing using themes
Analyze "what-if" scenarios with PivotDiagrams
Produce layered multipage drawings
Save drawings to publish on the Web
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Author's Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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I. Starting with Visio 2007 Basics
- In this part . . .
- 1. Visio 101
- 2. Creating and Saving a Simple Visio Drawing
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3. Printing Visio Drawings
- Understanding How Visio Prints
- Preparing to Print
- Printing Your Drawing
- Adding Headers and Footers to a Drawing
- Printing Gridlines
- Printing Part of a Drawing
- Reducing and Enlarging Printed Drawings
- Setting Shapes Not to Print
- Printing Reviewers' Comments
- Printing a Background Separately
- Printing Layers Separately
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II. Creating Visio Drawings
- In this part . . .
- 4. Discovering What Visio Shapes Are All About
- 5. Adding Text to Your Drawings
- 6. Connecting Shapes
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III. Taking Your Drawings to the Next Level
- In this part . . .
- 7. Perfecting Your Drawings
- 8. Creating and Customizing Shapes
- 9. Working with Pages
- 10. Layering Your Drawings
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IV. Advancing Your Knowledge of Visio
- In this part . . .
- 11. Creating Stencils, Master Shapes, and Templates
- 12. Managing Shape Information, Behavior, and Protection
- 13. Marking Up Drawings for Review
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14. Using Visio with Other Programs
- Using Files from Other Programs in Visio
- Generating Drawings from Data Stored in Non‐Visio Files
- Incorporating Visio Shapes and Drawings in Non‐Visio Documents
- Using Visio Viewer to Share Visio Drawings
- Saving Visio Drawings for the Web
- Publishing Your Drawing in XPS Format
- Creating Data Links to SQL Server and Spreadsheets
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V. The Part of Tens
- In this part . . .
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15. Ten Common Tasks in Visio
- Rotating Shapes to a Specific Angle
- Centering a Drawing before Printing
- Resizing a Page to Fit the Content of a Drawing
- Creating a Drawing That Spans Several Pages
- Saving a Company Logo as a Stencil Shape
- Creating and Adding a Background Design to a Drawing
- Adjusting the Transparency of Shapes and Text in a Drawing
- Adding the Same Shape or Image to All Pages in a Drawing
- Unlocking a Shape
- Copying Formatting from One Shape to Another
- 16. Ten Web Sites Devoted to Visio
Product information
- Title: Visio® 2007 For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2006
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470089835
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