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What else can it do?!

Yvette has attended:
Visio Introduction course
Powerpoint Advanced course

by - delegate Yvette [1 post] (2007 Oct 3 Wed, 16:29) Reply

Visio seems mainly to be diagrams and org charts etc, Hyperlinks are useful as is inserting the vast pictures, Does it do anything else? Is there more drawing free hand that can be achieved?

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RE: What else can it do?!

by - trainer Rich platinum contributer [711 posts] (2007 Oct 4 Thu, 13:28) Reply

Hi Yvette,

I'm not going to attempt to give you details of what I think Visio can do (having not much experience with it myself), but I will point you to This URL which is an article talking about what Visio can be used for!

As far as free hand drawing in Visio goes, my sources indicate it's not the best tool for this purpose. "...is a drawing and diagramming tool ... turn business and technical concepts into visual diagrams but doesn't feel comfortable drawing freehand." (CNet reviews)

Adobe Fireworks may be a good freehand drawing tool, which may be able to export nicely to Visio? If not Adobe, then plenty of other software packages out there that will be able to do it.

I hope this helps, Yvette!

Regards, Rich

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Visio tip:

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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