Visio® 2007 For Dummies®

Chapter 2. Creating and Saving a Simple Visio Drawing

In This Chapter

• Creating a drawing

• Discovering the Visio drawing types

• Opening and arranging stencils

• Using the Pointer Tool

• Adding shapes

• Navigating a drawing successfully

• Viewing drawings in different ways

• Saving your drawing

• Opening your drawings

Visio provides many ways to create diagrams of all types. However, as with anything else, it pays to begin simply and move on to topics that are more complex later. In this chapter, you find out the standard way to create a simple drawing, bring shapes in, and move around on the screen. More importantly, you discover more about the kinds of diagrams you can create. You also discover how to create drawings using different methods and how to save a drawing and reopen it later.

Creating a Drawing the Standard Way

You can create a diagram using several methods in Visio. This chapter reviews several techniques that you can use, but begins with the standard technique that you'll use most often. Visio makes the standard way as easy as possible by guiding you through the choices. The following steps describe the standard method for creating a diagram:

1. Choose Start⇨Programs⇨Microsoft Office⇨Microsoft Office Visio 2007 if Visio isn't already running.

   You see the opening Visio window, as shown in Figure 2-2 .

   

   Figure 2.1.  Figure 2-2: The Visio opening screen displays eight categories of diagram types.

2. Click ...