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visio courses for beginners - Scale

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Reply Thu 15 Feb 2007, 16:06Delegate Neil said...

Neil has attended:
Visio Introduction course

Scale

How do you re-scale the sheet?

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Reply Fri 16 Feb 2007, 16:13Trainer Garry said...

RE: scale

Set the drawing scale for a page
Display the page for which you want to set a drawing scale.
You can set a different drawing scale for each page in your drawing.

On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Drawing Scale tab.
Click Pre-defined scale, and then click a pre-defined architectural, metric, or engineering scale. Or click Custom Scale and type a custom scale.
To change the measurement units (such as feet or meters), click the Page Properties tab, and in the Measurement units list, click the units you want.
Click Apply to save your changes and update the drawing page.
To give the background pages the same drawing scale, display the background page and follow steps 1

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Creating an organisation chart in Visio using Excel data

A quick and easy way to create an organisation chart by importing names and titles stored in list format in an Excel spreadsheet into Visio.

1. Select File, New, Organization Chart.

2. Start the Organization Chart Wizard.

3. At the first step of the wizard, select the 'Information that I enter using the wizard' option, and click Next.

4. At the second step of the wizard, select Excel, then type the name of the file.

5. Select Browse to choose the location you wish to save the file to, click Save, and then click Next.

6. Click OK - a Microsoft Office Excel workbook will open with column headings already entered for you.

7. Replace the sample text with the text you wish to appear in your organisation chart. By holding your cursor over each column heading, you should be able to view data entry tips.

8. Save the Excel file, then close Excel.

9. Proceed through the remaining steps in the wizard to create your organization chart from the data you entered into the Excel file.

Visio's organisation chart wizard will also recognise the following file formats (besides .xls):

- Microsoft Exchange Server Directory (Microsoft Exchange e-mail Address Book).

- Tab- or Comma-delimited text (.txt).

- Org Plus (.txt).

- Microsoft Office Access (.mdb) or any other file format for a database created in an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)-compliant database application.

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