Viso Flowcharting

This course will focus on the practical application of Business Process Mapping with Microsoft Visio. Microsoft Visio is a powerful tool with extremely powerful functionality that enables a vast range of diagrams to be produced with minimal effort. Across the world Visio is used to produce process maps and flowchart diagrams. This insightful course will enable you to document, understand and improve your organisation’s business processes in a diagramatic format. You will leave the course with the knowledge and confidence to draw business process mapping diagrams in your organisation.

Duration - 1 Day

Overview of Visio

The screen layout
Stencils and drawings
Using stencils to create drawing
Working with multiple stencils
Saving, closing and opening files

Working with Shapes

Working with handles
Selecting objects, Working with objects
Attributes, aligning, distributing, rotating, Flipping, Grouping, Shape order

Working with Text

Text in shapes, Creating Free standing text
Text enhancements (Alignment, point size, colour)
Working with text independently from objects

Connecting Shapes

The Different Connectors available
Drawing connectors
Using dynamic glue
Working with connector points

Visio Pages

The page views
Adding, Deleting, Renaming pages
Background pages
Page Orientation (portrait, landscape)
Printing drawings

Creating Flow Charts with Visio

Basic principles of Flow charting
Why draw a Flow chart?
Use of Flowcharts
Process Mapping Symbols – an overview
A Flowcharting example

Different Styles of Flow Charts

Different type of Flowcharts
Drawing a basic process map diagram
Drawing a Functional Flowchart
Casue and Effect diagrams
Data Flow diagrams
Tips for Creating Flow Charts
An overview of Process Mapping

Using Drill Downs for Process Mapping

Custom Properties with Visio

What are Custom Properties
How do they help with Process Mapping?
Creating and editing Custom Properties
Building Reports from Custom Properties
Showing Custom Properties on an Internet/Intranet site

Integrating Visio

Taking Flow Charts into Word to integrate within other applications
Using Hyperlinks to link process diagrams to other documents / websites