How many Visio diagrams have you created? A handful? Fifty? Hundreds? And what is typically the last thing you do with a diagram? Print it or attach it to an e-mail message? Don’t stop there. A Visio diagram has a lot more potential.

When you use Visio Professional 2007 to link data to a diagram, you can monitor your business information in a visual manner. For example, you can view a network diagram with an overlay of patch-install status and downtime statistics. Or, you can look at a flowchart and see the speed at which things get done, using eye-catching progress bars or meters.

To learn more about this course, read the text in Goals and About this course, or look at the table of contents. Then click Next to start the first lesson.

Before taking this course, you should be familiar with how Visio shapes work and how to connect them. Or you should take the following courses:

• Shapes I: Introductory basics you can't live without
• Shapes II: Expertly position, stack, and group shapes
• Shapes III: Let's talk about text
• Shapes IV: Let's talk about text positioning

Please note that features highlighted in this course are available only in Visio Professional.