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 diagramsFormat an entire drawing using themesAnalyze "what-if" scenarios with PivotDiagramsProduce layered multipage drawingsSave drawings to publish on the Web

John Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having produced 70 books and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads-down programming. Some of his current books include a Windows power optimization book, a book on .NET security, and books on Amazon Web Services, Google Web Services, and eBay Web Services. His technical editing skills have helped more than 51 authors refine the content of their manuscripts. John has provided technical editing services to bothData Based Advisor andCoast Compute magazines. Hes also contributed articles to magazines likeDevSource,InformIT,Informant,DevX,SQL Server Professional,Visual C++ Developer,Hard Core Visual Basic,asp.netPRO,Software Test and Performance, andVisual Basic Developer.
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Debbie Walkowski has worked in the computer industry for more than 20 years in a variety of positions from sales and marketing to teaching and training. For the last 14 years, she has made writing her primary focus. Her company, the Writing Works, specializes in writing computer self-help books and providing writing services to companies such as Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett-Packard (formerly Digital Equipment Corporation), and AT&T Wireless Communications. She has authored 18 books on popular computer software, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Windows, Visio, Quicken, WordPerfect, and Lotus 1-2-3.

Introduction.

Part I: Starting with Visio 2007 Basics.

Chapter 1: Visio 101.

Chapter 2: Creating and Saving a Simple Visio Drawing.

Chapter 3: Printing Visio Drawings.

Part II: Creating Visio Drawings.

Chapter 4: Discovering What Visio Shapes Are All About.

Chapter 5: Adding Text to Your Drawings.

Chapter 6: Connecting Shapes.

Part III: Taking Your Drawings to the Next Level.

Chapter 7: Perfecting Your Drawings.

Chapter 8: Creating and Customizing Shapes.

Chapter 9: Working with Pages.

Chapter 10: Layering Your Drawings.

Part IV: Advancing Your Knowledge of Visio.

Chapter 11: Creating Stencils, Master Shapes, and Templates.

Chapter 12: Managing Shape Information, Behavior, and Protection.

Chapter 13: Marking Up Drawings for Review.

Chapter 14: Using Visio with Other Programs.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 15: Ten Common Tasks in Visio.

Chapter 16: Ten Web Sites Devoted to Visio.

Index.