E-Book Manual: A Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Visio 2003

Microsoft’s Visio 2003 is a dynamic software program which allows users to create a wide range of visual elements in professional and management presentations--from business and technical drawings and organization charts, to flowcharts, office layout diagrams, construction blueprints and calendars. Visio simplifies sophisticated design techniques into three basic steps which can be utilized when working on almost any type of project: choosing a template, connecting shapes, and adding text to your shapes. This Visio 2003 e-book beginner’s guide will help get you started with the Visio basics and is available for download here.

Microsoft Visio 2003 features over sixty diagram templates and thousands of shapes, each of which is designed for a specific use or purpose. Although the Visio program appears complex at first, it has been designed for ease-of-use. The e-book manual breaks down the Visio environment, and guides users through file commands, stencils, working with shapes and text, manipulating page views, creating point-to-point and shape-to-shape connections, drawing shapes, and working with background pages. Each explanation is simply and clearly worded and full-color diagrams and screen shots are utilized throughout. The manual ends with a list of useful keyboard shortcuts and a brief explanation of how Visio drawings can be easily copied into other software applications, such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Visio is designed to help you create business and technical diagrams, including Organization Charts, Flow Charts and Office Layout Diagrams. These diagrams are created with the use of sophisticated drawing tools and stencils of pre-drawn shapes that can be dropped onto the drawing page.

1. Visio Environment
   1. Screen Layout
2. File Commands
   1. Saving a File
   2. Closing a File
   3. Opening an Existing File
3. Stencils
   1. Opening more stencils
   2. Moving between Stencils
   3. Closing stencils
   4. Searching for a Shape on a Stencil
4. Working with Shapes
   1. Creating a shape
   2. Selecting shapes
   3. Moving Shapes
   4. Deleting Shapes
   5. Resizing Shapes
   6. Rotating Shapes
   7. Flipping Shapes
   8. Duplicating/Copying Shapes
   9. Changing the attributes of a Shape
   10. Stacking Shapes
   11. Aligning shapes
   12. Distributing Shapes
   13. Grouping Shapes
5. Pages & Views
   1. Creating a new page
   2. Zooming
   3. Ruler & Grid
   4. Snap & Glue
   5. Guides
6. Working with Text
   1. Text Boxes
   2. Shapes
   3. Formatting Text
   4. Alignment of text
   5. Tabs within a Text Box or Shape
   6. Bullets within A Text Box or Shape
7. Connectors
   1. Overview
   2. Creating a Point-to-Point Connection
   3. Creating a Shape-to-Shape Connection
   4. Automatically Connected Shapes
   5. Working With connection points
8. Drawing Shapes
9. Background Pages
   1. Inserting a Background Page
   2. Assigning a Background Page
   3. Creating a Background Page from an Existing Page
   4. Editing an Existing Background Page
10. Custom Stencils
11. The Favourites Stencil
1. New Stencils
12. Printing
    1. Print Preview
    2. Printing your Drawing
13. Visio & Other Applications
14. Keyboard Shortcuts