Visio Essential Skills

Build Confidence Creating Clear Workplace Diagrams with Microsoft Visio

This practical training course gives you the skills needed to create effective, consistent and readable diagrams in Microsoft Visio. You will learn how to build flowcharts, organisation charts, office floor plans and other workplace diagrams, then customise, link, print and share them.

Whether you are new to Visio or have used it without formal training, this course builds practical confidence so you can work with shapes, connectors, stencils, layers and templates to produce professional-looking diagrams.

Visio Essential Skills is ideal for people who:

• Are new to flowcharting and Microsoft Visio
• Have started using Visio in a new role
• Have used Visio but want to learn more effective methods
• Need to create flowcharts or organisation charts
• Want greater confidence producing workplace diagrams

To attend Visio Essential Skills, you should:

• Have good mouse skills
• Have a clear idea of what you need to flowchart
• Have some graphic background
• Understand file management

After completing Visio Essential Skills, you will be able to:

• Navigate Microsoft Visio and start a diagram
• Create diagrams using shapes, connectors, guides and text
• Build cross-functional flowcharts and organisation charts
• Customise stencils, properties, layers and templates
• Prepare, print, link and share professional-looking diagrams

Introduction to Visio

• Understand the Visio workspace
• Start a Visio diagram
• Use views and drawing tools

Diagram and Flowchart Construction

• Place guides, shapes and connectors
• Add and edit text
• Build clear flowchart structures

Cross-Functional Flowcharts

• Create cross-functional flowcharts
• Organise steps by function or responsibility
• Improve readability and consistency

Specialised Workplace Diagrams

• Create organisation charts
• Create office floor plans
• Explore project planning and cause-and-effect diagrams

Customising Diagram Resources

• Customise stencils
• Work with custom properties
• Use layers and templates

Linking and Reviewing Diagrams

• Insert hyperlinks
• Link diagrams
• Review diagrams for clarity and intended workplace use

Page Setup, Printing and Sharing

• Apply page and print setup
• Prepare diagrams for printing
• Print and share Visio diagrams