Here is Mousetraining.co.uk's Free
Visio
2003 Training Manual. This illustrated Visio
training guide is 66 pages in
length and is downloadable in zip format (ZIP file
is 546kb, resulting DOC file is 830kb after unzipping). 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. This training
manual demonstrates Visio's features for creating and working with
Visio diagrams, including the following Visio topics: the Visio Layout
and Toolbars, Stencils, Working with Shapes, Drawing Shapes, Pages and
Views, Working with Text, Connectors, Printing, and Keyboard
Shortcuts.
Contents of Visio 2003 Training Manual:
Introduction
Getting Started
Visio Environment:
Screen Layout
Standard Toolbar
Formatting Toolbar
Task Pane
File Commands:
Saving a File
Closing a File
Opening an Existing File
Stencils:
Opening more stencils
Moving between Stencils
Closing stencils
Searching for a Shape on a Stencil
Working with Shapes:
Creating a shape
Selecting shapes
Select Multiple Shapes Using the Keyboard
Select Multiple Shapes Using the Multiple Select Tool
Select Shapes Using the Area Select Tool
Select Shapes Using the Lasso Select Tool
Moving Shapes
Deleting Shapes
Resizing Shapes
Rotating Shapes
Flipping Shapes Duplicating/Copying Shapes Changing the attributes of a
Shape
To Change Line (Border) Attributes
To Change Fill Attributes
Stacking Shapes
Aligning shapes
Distributing Shapes
Grouping Shapes
Pages & Views:
Creating a new page
Moving Between Pages
Zooming
Ruler & Grid
Snap & Glue
Guides
Working with Text:
Text Boxes
Adding Text to a Drawing
Editing Text in a Text Box
Moving, Resizeing, and Rotating a Text Box
Shapes
Adding Text to a Shape
Editing and Moving Text in a Shape
Resizing a Text Frame in a Shape
Rotating a Frame in a Shape
Formatting Text
To Select All Text in a Text Box or Shape
To Select Some of the Text in a Text Box or Shape
Horizontal and Vertical Alignment of text
Tabs within A Text Box or Shape
Bullets within A Text Box or Shape
Connectors:
Overview
Creating a Point-to-Point Connection
Creating a Shape-to-Shape Connection
Connecting Multiple Shapes
Automatically Connected Shapes
Working With connection points
Drawing Shapes
Background Pages:
Inserting a Background Page
Assigning a Background Page
Creating a Background Page from an Existing Page
Editing an Existing Background Page
Custom Stencils:
The Favourites Stencil
Adding Shapes From an Existing Stencil to Favourites
Adding Shapes From A Drawing to Favourites
New Stencils
Creating a New Stencil
Adding Shapes to the New Stencil
Printing:
Print Preview
Printing your Drawing
Visio & Other Applications
Keyboard Shortcuts