Short 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
Long description
With an installed base of more than 8 million, Visio 2007 enables users to easily draw complex diagrams, visualize business data, and plan and execute an unexpected array of projects. Written by seasoned author John Paul Mueller, this friendly, easy-to-understand guide highlights the numerous uses for Visio, from planning out office space, to diagramming a network, to planning a software project, to making a pattern to use for a woodworking project. Updated to reflect the changes in the latest version of Visio, the book begins with a focus on the basics and how to create simple diagrams. Additional coverage goes on to explore using Visio drawings with other programs and on the Internet; attaching database information to shapes; creating custom shapes, stencils, templates, and styles; annotating diagrams; working with layered diagrams; and saving diagrams as Web pages.