The arrangement of shapes in a Visio diagram is the key to communicating information. By controlling shape arrangement, you strengthen the significance of individual shapes and make the relationships among them crystal clear.

Because arranging shapes is so important, Visio offers many ways to do that, more than you might expect. Maybe you've experimented and found it a bit confusing. Maybe you know some methods, but you'd like to know more and better ones.

By positioning shapes, you put them where they work best. By stacking shapes, you give them more places to work in. By grouping shapes, you make them work together so that you can work faster.

To learn more about this course, read the overview information or the table of contents in the left column. When you're done reading this page, click Next to start the first lesson.

Before taking this course, you should take the course, Shapes I: Introductory basics you can't live without. Or, you should be familiar with the Visio terms: template, stencil, and shape. You should also know how to zoom in and out, and how to add and select shapes on the page.