Microsoft Office VISIO 2007 for Dummies

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.

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

Introduction 1
Part I: Starting with Visio 2007 Basics 7
Chapter 1: Visio 101 9
Chapter 2: Creating and Saving a Simple Visio Drawing 29
Chapter 3: Printing Visio Drawings 69
Part II: Creating Visio Drawings 89
Chapter 4: Discovering What Visio Shapes Are All About 91
Chapter 5: Adding Text to Your Drawings 119
Chapter 6: Connecting Shapes 145
Part III: Taking Your Drawings to the Next Level 167
Chapter 7: Perfecting Your Drawings 169
Chapter 8: Creating and Customizing Shapes 191
Chapter 9: Working with Pages 227
Chapter 10: Layering Your Drawings 249
Part IV: Advancing Your Knowledge of Visio 265
Chapter 11: Creating Stencils, Master Shapes, and Templates 267
Chapter 12: Managing Shape Information, Behavior, and Protection 281
Chapter 13: Marking Up Drawings for Review 313
Chapter 14: Using Visio with Other Programs 329
Part V: The Part of Tens 357
Chapter 15: Ten Common Tasks in Visio 359
Chapter 16: Ten Web Sites Devoted to Visio 365
Index 371