Article Getting started With most Microsoft Office programs, you can find clip art, pictures, and other media files. Office 2010 Open an Office 2010 program. On the Ins...

Article Align and space shapes and connectors with the Auto Align and Auto Space tools. Straighten connectors and even up the spacing between shapes to make your diagra...

Article Format shapes and text by setting fill color or patterns, line or border color and style, and by adding effects such as shadows, bevels, and glows.

Article Containers group related shapes together to help clarify the relationship. Shapes that have list behavior, such as swimlanes, provide ways to organize groups of...

Article Drag connectors from the AutoConnect arrows that appear around shapes when you hold the pointer over them. Use the Connector tool if you need to control the poi...

Article Change the direction of a connector arrow by using the Flip Vertical command.

Article Use layers to organize related shapes on a drawing page. A layer is a named category of shapes. By assigning shapes to different layers, you can selectively vie...

Article A theme in Microsoft Visio 2010 is a set of colors and effects that you can apply to a drawing with a single click. Themes are a quick and easy way to give yo...

Article To see the dimensions of a shape, select it and look in the status bar below the Shapes window. The width, height, and angle are listed automatically. To change...

Article A stencil (.vss file) is a collection of shapes associated with a particular Microsoft Office Visio template (.vst file). You can create a new stencil to hold s...

Article Draw lines, arcs, and free-form shapes by using the Visio drawing tools.

Article Use layers to organize related shapes on a drawing page. Assign shapes to different layers, to selectively view, print, color, and lock different categories of ...

Article There are several ways to zoom in for a closer look at your Visio drawing and move the diagram around (or "pan" the diagram) to view the section you want. Video...

Article You can create your own custom shapes and add them to an editable stencil. Your Favorites stencil and custom stenci ls that you create are editable; t he sten...

Article Microsoft Visio 2010 gives you multiple tools to select, move, resize, and rotate shapes and objects. Once you have selected an object - or all the objects -...

Article You can copy all or some of the shapes on a page to the same location on another page. Copy shapes to the same location on another page When you copy a shape an...

Article Drag guide lines onto your diagram to provide reference lines for aligning shapes.

Article A theme in Visio is a set of colors and effects that you can apply to a drawing with a single click. Themes are a quick way to give your drawings a professional...

Article Visio can work with AutoCAD-format drawings. You can open them in Visio, insert them as images, and save your diagram in DWG or DXF format.

Article You can insert most types of image files into a Visio diagram. They appear as normal pictures but don’t have some features that Visio shapes have, like connecti...

Article You can use guides to align and arrange the shapes on your drawing. Position guides on the drawing To place a guide, drag a guide from the horizontal or vertica...

Article Some shapes have special abilities or behaviors. Right-click the shape and look in the shortcut menu and in the ribbon.

Article The dynamic grid is a set of alignment and spacing guides that appear when you move a shape near another shape, or near the margin of a page or container. The s...

Article Add text to shapes by selecting the shape and typing - no need to double-click to add new text. To edit text, double-click the shape. Use text and formatting to...

Article Visio can open drawings that were created as .dwg and .dxf files, which are popular formats used by applications such as AutoCAD. What do you want to do? Open a...