Chapter 2. Adding Shapes to Diagrams

Chapter at a Glance

Adding Shapes to Diagrams

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

Work with 1-D and 2-D shapes.

Add text toshapes and the drawing page.

Move, size, rotate, and copy shapes.

Work withgroups.

Find shapes for diagrams.

Insert pictures into diagrams.

Microsoft Office Visio includes tens of thousands of shapes that you can use to quickly create diagrams. Shapes in Visio can represent both conceptual graphics and real-world objects, such as office furniture and network equipment. Shapes can be as simple as a rectangle that represents a step in a process flowchart, or they can be as complex as a hub in a network diagram. Because ...

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