Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Chapter 2. Adding Shapes to Diagrams

In this chapter you will learn to:

• Working with 1-D and 2-D Shapes

• Adding Text to Shapes and the Drawing Page

• Moving, Sizing, Rotating, and Copying Shapes

• Working with Groups

• Finding Shapes for Diagrams

• Inserting Pictures into Diagrams

• Saving 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 shapes can represent real-world objects, you can interact with them in ways that are similar ...