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    The Visio 2010 MVP Sessions

    About

    The Visio 2010 MVP Sessions are a collaboration between the Microsoft Visio team and three prominent Visio MVPs who have each recently published books on how to get the most out of using Visio 2010.

    As more people use Visio 2010 as their primary diagramming tool, Microsoft has received very positive feedback. We’ve also heard from users who recognize that they are still “just scratching the surface” with what they could be doing with the new features and capabilities in Visio 2010.

    In twenty-four self-contained Sessions ranging from five to seven and half minutes, each week the Visio MVPs discuss and demonstrate the basics of how to use and apply some of the most important features and capabilities of Visio 2010. Each Visio MVP Session should provide the understanding needed to get started in using Visio 2010 to solve a specific challenge or apply a specific feature or technique.

    In addition, the sample diagrams used for each topic are published via Visio Services and freely downloadable, with the idea being that users can interact or work with and from the same example files and data sets being demonstrated.

    For deeper coverage of these and other topics, the three Visio MVPs starring in these Sessions (Scott Helmers, David Parker, and Chris Roth) each actively maintain independent blog/community sites accessible via the book cover images below. Elsewhere on this site, you can find content about Visio 2010 features and capabilities. Additionally, this page serves as a great jumping off point for forums and community resources hosted on related Microsoft sites.

                                                    

    Session List

    Session 1: Get started with the right template  (Tuesday, January 10)
    See how to get started in Microsoft Visio 2010 with the right template. This video introduces the eight categories of templates available in Visio 2010: business, engineering, flowchart (including Business Process Modeling Notation [BPMN] and SharePoint workflow templates in Visio Premium 2010), general, maps and floor plans, network, schedule, and software and database. It also shows how easy it is to create drawings by starting with sample diagrams.
    Watch Session 1 video
    Download the sample diagrams used in this Session: HVAC Plan, Timeline, and Templates by Edition.

    Session 2: Find and navigate key features  (Tuesday, January 17)
    Learn about the new user interface in Microsoft Visio 2010. This video introduces the ribbon user interface, which is adopted from Microsoft Office 2010. It covers the main tabs—Home, Insert, Design, Data (in Visio Professional and Visio Premium), Process (in Visio Premium), Review, View, and Developer (for advanced users)—as well as contextual and add-in tabs that appear when relevant. It also looks at the Backstage view, where you can find new templates, recent files, and sample diagrams.
    Watch Session 2 video
    Download the sample diagram used in this Session: Simple Flowchart.

    Session 3: Get started with shapes  (Tuesday, January 24)
    Learn how to create diagrams more quickly by working with shapes in Microsoft Visio 2010. This video reviews several tips for working with shapes more effectively by using keyboard and pointer shortcuts and new features of Visio 2010. It covers shortcuts for duplicating objects, tips for rotating objects, a feature that lets you “glue” shapes to a connection point, and the new Quick Shapes menu, which enables you to quickly add related shapes to a diagram.
    Watch Session 3 video
    Download the sample diagram used in this Session: Basic Office Layout.

    Session 4: Align and distribute shapes  (Tuesday, January 31)
    Learn how to improve the look of your diagrams with spacing and alignment options in Microsoft Visio 2010. This video reviews several features to help you create good-looking diagrams more easily, such as Auto Align & Space to quickly adjust the positions of all objects and Live preview, which lets you see changes before you commit to them. This video also covers alignment and spacing options just for selected objects, and tips on manually adjusting objects.
    Watch Session 4 video
    Download the sample diagram used in this Session: Compact Hiring Process.

    Session 5: Make and apply formatting changes  (Tuesday, February 7)
    Learn about a variety of options for applying text styles, color, and other formatting to shapes in Microsoft Visio 2010. This video provides several tips for formatting shapes more easily and quickly using new features in Visio 2010. It covers interface features such as live preview of changes and the mini toolbar for common formatting options, techniques for working with text boxes, and how to apply formatting to shapes in groups.
    Watch Session 5 video
    Download the working file used in this Session: Apply and Make Formatting Changes.

    Session 6: Configure diagrams for display and print  (Tuesday, February 14)
    Learn how to work with the infinite canvas, page orientation, and page backgrounds in Microsoft Visio 2010. This video reviews several tips for working more effectively with flowcharts by taking advantage of the infinite canvas feature in Visio 2010, which automatically expands or reduces the drawing page to fit your diagram. It also covers how to apply different orientations to pages and how to apply backgrounds to make your diagrams look more professional.
    Watch Session 6 video
    Download the working file used in this Session: Configure Diagrams for Display and Print

    Session 7: Work with and customize shape data  (Tuesday, February 21)
    Learn how to create and use shape data fields in Microsoft Visio 2010. This video reviews several tips for working with data stored with shapes in your diagrams. It covers the types of data fields, how to add multiple new fields at once, how to modify the data values for multiple shapes at once, and how to create shape data sets that you can apply to other shapes.
    Watch Session 7 video
    Download the working file used in this Session: Using and Customizing Shape Data

    Session 8: will publish on Tuesday, February 28

    Session 9: will publish on Tuesday, March 6

    Session 10: will publish on Tuesday, March 13

    Session 11: will publish on Tuesday, March 20

    Session 12: will publish on Tuesday, March 27

    Session 13: will publish on Tuesday, April 3

    Session 14: will publish on Tuesday, April 10

    Session 15: will publish on Tuesday, April 17

    Session 16: will publish on Tuesday, April 24

    Session 17: will publish on Tuesday, May 1

    Session 18: will publish on Tuesday, May 8

    Session 19: will publish on Tuesday, May 15

    Session 20: will publish on Tuesday, May 22

    Session 21: will publish on Tuesday, May 29

    Session 22: will publish on Tuesday, June 5

    Session 23: will publish on Tuesday, June 12

    Session 24: will publish on Tuesday, June 19

     

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