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Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Structure to Your Diagrams - Finding containers and lists in Visio (part 2) - Wireframes,Legends

Visio 2013 includes a revamped set of user interface (UI) design shapes that were initially introduced in Visio 2010.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Structure to Your Diagrams - Finding containers and lists in Visio (part 1) - Swimlanes

One of the most prominent examples of list and container usage is for cross-functional flowcharts, also known as swimlane diagrams.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Structure to Your Diagrams - Formatting and sizing lists

You can adjust most of the same format and size options for a list that you can for a container with one notable exception: you cannot change the size of a Visio list shape.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Structure to Your Diagrams - Adding shapes to lists

A list is a special type of container that maintains its members in ordered sequence. When you drop an object into a list, it takes a specific place before, between, or after existing members.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Structure to Your Diagrams - Sizing containers

The predesigned containers in Visio 2013 expand automatically when you add shapes near the edge of the container.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Using the Organization Chart Wizard with new data

In this exercise, you’ll use the Organization Chart Wizard to create an Excel workbook into which you’ll enter your organization data.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding photos and changing styles in org charts

In this exercise, you’ll create an org chart using data from Excel and will import photographs at the same time.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Altering org chart layout and appearance

Whether you create an organization chart manually or automatically using the wizard, you might want to modify the appearance and attributes of the org chart shapes after they’re on the page.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Using the Organization Chart Wizard with existing data

The primary reason to store data in org chart shapes is so you can run reports or use the data in other ways without the need to revert to your original data source.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Working with background pages and borders

You can create background pages manually and assign them to selected foreground pages. You can also take advantage of several Visio features that automatically create and assign background pages.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Managing pages and page setup

A Visio drawing can contain any number of pages, and each page can have its own dimensions, measurement units, and other characteristics. In addition, the on-screen drawing page can have different dimensions from the physical printer page.

Video tutorial : How to create your first Swimlane Diagram or Cross-Functional Flowchart Diagram by using Microsoft Visio 2010 (Part 3)

By watching this video you will learn how to create your first Swimlane Diagram or Cross-Functional Flowchart Diagram by using Microsoft Visio 2010 (Part 3)

Video tutorial : How to create your first Swimlane Diagram or Cross-Functional Flowchart Diagram by using Microsoft Visio 2010 (Part 2)

By watching this video you will learn how to create your first Swimlane Diagram or Cross-Functional Flowchart Diagram by using Microsoft Visio 2010 (Part 2)

Video tutorial : How to create your first Swimlane Diagram or Cross-Functional Flowchart Diagram by using Microsoft Visio 2010 (Part 1)

By watching this video you will learn how to create your first Swimlane Diagram or Cross-Functional Flowchart Diagram by using Microsoft Visio 2010 (Part 1)

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating Flowcharts and Organization Charts - Building organization charts by hand

Although you employ the Organization Chart Wizard in following exercises, it is useful to understand initially at which easy point it is to create diagrams of org to the hand.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Understanding swimlane diagrams, Understanding organization charts

The diagrams of Swimlane are a popular variation on flow charts, because they correct a significant manqu of the flow charts: very few flow charts show which is responsible for each stage or which makes the principal decisions.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating swimlane diagrams

In the preceding exercises, you created a flow chart of human resources recruiting the process. However, the flow chart does not indicate which is responsible for each task.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding labels to flowcharts

In the preceding exercise, you learned how the mechanisms to create a flow chart, but your diagram is not very useful still because your forms do not have any label, data, or to identify information.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating flowcharts

In this exercise, you will create a new flow chart for simple human resources recruiting the process. The flow chart will have seven stages of process and a decision.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Selecting a flowchart type - Visio Standard, Visio Professional

Microsoft Visio Standard 2013 includes four gauges of flow chart, according to the indications of the following graph. You will work with the basic flow chart and the Cross-Functional gauges of flow chart in this article.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Understanding and using layers

You can organize objects in a Visio drawing into layers and control various properties of all layer members at once.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Inserting pictures

As is true for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and many other programs, Visio lets you import pictures of various types into a drawing. You may want to add a picture of a specific object, a piece of clip art or a general background image—either way, you can import almost any type of image or picture into Visio.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating and Validating Process Diagrams - Reusing existing validation rules

In this exercise, you will learn the answer to the first question by importing a rule set into a flowchart created with Visio 2007. You will learn the answers to the second and third questions in the text at the end of this section, and you’ll learn about modifying and creating rule sets in the next section.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating and Validating Process Diagrams - Creating SharePoint workflow diagrams

A workflow is a set of process steps, some or all of which have been automated. For the automated parts of a workflow, documents and files are stored and moved electronically, according to a set of predefined rules, so that they are available to participants as required.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating and Validating Process Diagrams - Creating subprocesses

As you document, define, and refine a business process, you will typically add more detail and additional steps to your process map. At some point, your map is likely to become unwieldy and difficult to read and maintain.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating and Validating Process Diagrams - Creating and validating BPMN diagrams

Microsoft provides 16 shapes in the BPMN Basic Shapes template as shown in the following graphic. This may not seem like a sufficient number considering the BPMN shape variations described in the previous section.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating and Validating Process Diagrams - Understanding BPMN

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) was created to represent work processes in diagrams that are readily understandable by business people, yet are rich enough in detail to allow IT departments to translate process maps into technical specifications

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating and Validating Process Diagrams - Understanding Visio rules, Validating flowcharts

The diagram validation capabilities of Visio 2013 are built around collections of rules. A Visio rule can check a diagram for a very simple or a very complex condition.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Replacing shapes

In the first part of this exercise, you will create a diagram from a template you haven’t used yet. In the second part, you will use an important new Visio feature that enables you to replace any shape with an entirely different shape, and yet retain all of the original shape’s key characteristics.

Microsoft Visio 2013 : Creating a New Diagram - Using AutoAdd and AutoDelete

If you don’t like the results of an AutoAdd or AutoDelete operation, a single undo command will reset all changes made by the shape addition or deletion.