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Lab Manual - Deep Understanding About Software Flowchart Using Microsoft VISIO

Microsoft Visio is software used to create diagrams and flowcharts. It allows users to visualize processes through basic shapes and connectors. To create a flowchart in Visio, a user selects the Flowchart template which provides predefined shapes. They can then drag shapes onto the drawing and connect them to map out steps in a process. Text and arrow styles can be added or modified for each element. Alignment and spacing tools help organize the completed flowchart.

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Lab Manual - Deep Understanding About Software Flowchart Using Microsoft VISIO

Microsoft Visio is software used to create diagrams and flowcharts. It allows users to visualize processes through basic shapes and connectors. To create a flowchart in Visio, a user selects the Flowchart template which provides predefined shapes. They can then drag shapes onto the drawing and connect them to map out steps in a process. Text and arrow styles can be added or modified for each element. Alignment and spacing tools help organize the completed flowchart.

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Lab 1

Lab Manual - Deep Understanding about Software


Flowchart using Microsoft VISIO
What is Visio?

• Microsoft Visio is software for drawing a variety of diagrams.


• These include flowcharts, org charts, building plans, floor plans, data flow diagrams,
process flow diagrams, business process modeling, swimlane diagrams, 3D maps, and
many more.
• It’s a Microsoft product, sold as an addition to MS Office. Visio 2016, the latest version,
comes in three editions: Visio Standard, Visio Professional, and Visio Pro for Office 365.
How visio is used?
Deep Understanding about Software
Flowchart using Microsoft VISIO

• Flowcharts are diagrams that show the steps in a process. Basic flowcharts are easy to
create and, because the shapes are simple and visual, they are easy to understand.
The basic • The Basic Flowchart template in
Visio comes with shapes that you can
Flowchart use to show many kinds of processes,
and it is especially useful for showing
template basic business processes like the
proposal development process shown
in the following figure.
1. Start Visio.

Create a 2.
3.
Click the Flowchart category.
Double-click Basic Flowchart.
flowchart 4. For each step in the process that you
are documenting, drag a flowchart
shape onto your drawing.
5. Connect the flowchart shapes by
holding the mouse pointer over the
first shape, and then clicking the
small arrow that appears that
points to the shape you want to
Create a connect to. If the second shape is
flowchart not directly across from the first
shape, click and hold the small
arrow, drag it to the second shape,
and drop the connector in the
middle of the second shape.
6. To add text to a shape or connector,
select it, and then type. When you are
finished typing, click on a blank area of
the page.

Create a 7. To change the direction of a


connector's arrow, select the connector,
flowchart and then, on the Shape tab, in the Shape
Styles group, click Line, point to Arrows,
and select the arrow direction and style
that you want.
Press CTRL+A to select everything on the
1. drawing page.

Fix alignment
and spacing
On the Home tab, in the Arrange group,
2. click Position, and then click Auto Align &
Space.

If that doesn’t do what you want, press Ctrl+Z


3. to undo it, and then try some of the other
options under the Align and Position buttons.

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