MS Visio : How to work with shapes and text ?

Working with shapes

Shape Windows

• Shapes window contains stencils for : 
• More Shapes
• Quick Shapes
• Basic Flowchart Shapes
• Cross Functional Flowchart Shapes

                

Add additional shapes 

• More Shapes from major categories

To remove stencil from Shapes window

• Right click the stencil and Close

To float a stencil

• Right clicking the stencil and Float and drag to another part of the screen.
• Drag back to Shape window to restore

When you create a drawing based on a template, only the stencils associated with the template are shown by default.

Adding shapes to drawing area

Resize, Scaling and Moving

• Same as MS Office

   

Duplicate shapes

• Hold ctrl and drag the shape

         

Select multiple objects

• Hold shift and select shape

   

Drawing tools

  Compound line - with line and curve


Auto Connect
Connect shapes as you add them.

This feature can be turned-on from View tab.

Manually Connect
Use Connector tool


Auto Align

 



Working with Text blocks

Text in Visio is contained in a text block.
Editing and formatting is same as MS Office.

Add text to shapes

Rotate text