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Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

You're reading from   Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio A guide to visually creating, communicating, and collaborating business processes efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631926
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Senaj Lelic Senaj Lelic
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David Parker David Parker
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Choosing the Correct Business Process Diagram Type 2. Chapter 2: Choosing the Best Visio Edition for Our Needs FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Learning to Manually Create Process Flow Diagrams 4. Chapter 4: Using Visio for Desktop with BPMN 5. Chapter 5: Utilizing Data Sources to Create and Enrich Business Process Diagrams 6. Chapter 6: Learn How to Diagram Efficiently 7. Chapter 7: Preparing Diagrams for Presentation and Collaboration 8. Chapter 8: Securing and Providing Access to Diagrams 9. Chapter 9: Integrating Visio with Other Microsoft Apps 10. Chapter 10: Customizing Master Shapes and Templates 11. Chapter 11: Improving the Provided Flowchart Shapes 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learn How to Diagram Efficiently

We learned how to automatically and manually create business process diagrams in the previous chapters; however, we often need to make some manual enhancements to improve the arrangement or add visual impact. We want to perform these tasks quickly and efficiently, so in this chapter, we will go through some skills to make our lives easier. We will learn how to make some useful hidden commands visible and some shortcut keys and keys combined with mouse actions that can speed up diagramming. We will also learn how to select a group of shapes and align or distribute them. Finally, we will go through the options for adding annotations to shapes and including borders and title blocks.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Editing the built-in ribbon to provide more options
  • Learning useful shortcut keys
  • Banding shapes together
  • Controlling the layout
  • Adding callouts for annotations
  • Adding borders and titles
  • ...
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