Using Visio Containers

Name: Using Visio Containers
Author: Elissa Smith

This course covers inserting, adding shapes to, and removing shapes from a container. It also covers updating container styles to enable resizing and adjusting…

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Hello. Welcome to our Intermediate Visio course. In this lesson I want to look at a way to further organize and also add detail. Especially to drawings that will have multiple groups of shapes within them showing processes. Now, here I have a more in depth flow chart. It has really an upper portion and a bottom portion. To help further document what's going on inside of this flow chart I want to add what's called a call out. Now the first step in creating a call out is to select the shapes that will be located within it. So I'm gonna come in and left drag under the area that contains the shapes that will actually be in my call out. We'll say that everything located within the selection area gets contained within those sizing handles. Now to add them to this specific call out, I'm going to come up to the Insert ribbon tab. And on the Insert ribbon tab I'll see that I have a diagram parts area with a Container. And the name is really what this is. It's a container for specific shapes within a drawing. I'm gonna select the container And we'll see that now the shapes are located within that container. Now, this container has a name. And if I come in and click on the container, and actually double click on that heading. I can give this particular container a name. Now a couple of interesting characteristics about this container. If I click on it, I'll see that it selects all the shapes inside of it. And I can also still work with the shapes individually. But notice when I select a shape within the container. The container has a light green highlight on it to also indicate that the container is also part of this shape. Now let's say for example that I delete the container. What happens to the shapes inside of it. If I click on the container and hit my Delete button. Notice the shapes get deleted as well. So, you need to be careful when you're working with containers because it's almost like you're basically compartmentalizing different parts of your Visio drawing. But it's also a great way to label areas within a drawing almost to create different segments or phases within it. Stay tuned. In the next lesson we're gonna look at how you can add and remove additional shapes to your containers.

Intermediate Provider : Elissa Smith 6 Lessons · 13m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

This course covers inserting, adding shapes to, and removing shapes from a container. It also covers updating container styles to enable resizing and adjusting container margins. Finally, it covers disbanding containers.

What You'll Learn

Insert Visio containers into your drawings
Add shapes to a container to detail sections of a drawing
Remove shapes from a container
Update container style to enable resizing
Resize containers and adjust container margins
Disband a container

Key Takeaways

Visio containers can be inserted into drawings to group and add detail to sections of a drawing.
Shapes can be added to and removed from a container.
Updating a container's style enables resizing of the container.
Containers can be resized and their margins adjusted, and containers can be disbanded.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

It covers inserting containers, adding shapes to and removing shapes from a container, updating container styles to enable resizing, adjusting container margins, and disbanding containers.

What will I be able to do after taking this course?

You will learn to insert Visio containers into your drawings and know how to add detail to sections of a drawing.

What lessons are included in this course?

The lessons are Inserting Containers, Add Shapes to a Container, Removing Shapes from a Container, Updating Container Style, Resize and Adjust Container Margins, and Disband Container.

What skills does this course relate to?

The course relates to skills including Microsoft Visio, Dimensioning, Visual Modeling, and Visual Objects.