Microsoft Visio 2013 Notes

Chapter 1 Starting Diagrams

With Visio, you can use it to make block diagrams, charts, graphs, flowchart, network map and many
more. Heres the user interface of Microsoft Visio 2013 upon startup. You can pick Basic Diagram that
contains basic geometric shapes, arrow shapes, and graph
shapes. OR start with the Blank Drawing.

Steps for Blank Drawing
1. For Windows 7: On the taskbar, click the Start
button > All Programs > Microsoft Office >
Microsoft Visio 2013. For Windows 8: On the
taskbar, click the Start button > Search > Microsoft
Visio 2013.
2. Visio starts. Pick Metric Units and click Create. You
will see a blank canvas. You can start searching for
shapes by clicking Search on the left sidebar, or
click Stencils > More Shapes and pick your desired
criteria.
3. Snapshot on the right shows you a list of Network
and Peripherals shapes. You can drag & drop
directly on the canvas, resize it, and move it as you
desire.
On the next page, heres an example of Visio project:












Chapter 8 Creating Network Diagrams
To create a network diagram, one has to determine a type of network ring or backbone which handles
the major data traffic which we want to use. Then you drag the backbone shape onto the drawing page,
followed by each hardware shape in the network. You can also add text to the shapes as you would any
other Visio shape. Its that easy.
1. Start Visio 2013. In the Choose Drawing Type window, click Categories > Network > Basic
Network Diagram. Pick Metric Units and click Create. The template opens a blank drawing page
and the Network and Peripherals as well as Computers and Monitors stencils.
2. From the Network and Peripherals stencil, drag an Ethernet shape to the center of the drawing
page.










3. Click the Computers and Monitors stencil.
4. From the Computers and Monitors stencil, drag a laptop computer shape onto the drawing
page, and position it above and below the Ethernet shape.

5. Select the Ethernet shape. Position the pointer over the
yellow, upper-left control handle on the Ethernet shape, and
then when the pointer changes to a four-headed arrow, drag
the control handle to the connection point in the middle of
the upper-left laptop computer shape.

6. Visio connects the two shapes. The connector remains
selected and the endpoint is green, indicating that it is glued
to the laptop computer shape. Repeat the steps for all
shapes.

7. All four laptops are connected to the Ethernet shape.

8. Click the Network and Peripherals stencil. Drag
a Server shape onto the drawing page and
position it to the right of the Ethernet shape.
Then drag a Hub shape and position it to the
left of the Ethernet shape.

9. Repeat step 5 and 6 until the Server shape and
Hub shape are connected to the Ethernet
shape.


10. Click the Computers and Monitors stencil. Drag a tablet device shape onto the drawing page,
and position it above and to the right of the Ethernet shape.

11. Click the Network and Peripherals stencil.
To indicate the transmission of data from
the tablet device shape to the network,
drag a Comm-link shape onto the drawing
page, and position it anywhere in the top
half of the diagram.

12. Drag the Comm-link shapes endpoint to
the connection point on the Ethernet shape
and the tablet device shape, both on the
left and right side.

13. Double-click the upper-left laptop computer
shape to open the shapes text block. Type Nazir, and then press the Esc key to close the shapes
text block. The shape remains selected and
a new control handle appears on top of the
shape text.

14. Drag the text above the Nazir shape to
position the text above the shape.

15. Repeat step 13 and 14 for all laptops
computer shape and type the name Aisyah,
Fiza and Ika for each laptop.



16. On top of the Visio 2013 interface, click DESIGN > Backgrounds and select any background to be
inserted onto the drawing page.

17. Visio adds a VBackground page to the drawing file and places
the background shape on it.

18. Click the Borders and Titles stencil and drag the Title block
sphere shape onto the drawing shape, and position it in the
upper-left corner of the drawing page.

19. With the shape selected, click VBackground page and double-
click on the Title block to open the shapes text block.


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21. On the File menu, click Save. In the Save As dialog box, in the File name box, type Network.

22. In the Save As dialog box, click the Save button to save the diagram.