Hello, this is Allen Green, and then this lesson we're gonna explore our Microsoft Visio environment. And the purpose of Visio is to create diagrams. Diagrams are a way of turning our ideas into visual representations such as flow charts and organization charts. Let's explore our environment. At the top, we're gonna come on over the File. We'll click on our File tab. This is gonna take us into the backstage of Microsoft Visio. We're gonna click on Open, and we wanna navigate to our Knowledge City folder. Come on over to the right and click on Browse. And wherever the Knowledge City folder is on your computer, I'm gonna have you navigate there. We're gonna scroll down and we're gonna look for a file called Exploring the Environment. We're gonna click on that, Exploring the Environment, and we're gonna hit Open. Okay, and when we hit Open... We have our Quick Access Toolbar. And the whole purpose of the Quick Access Toolbar is to take buttons you use the most, make 'em really easy to get to. All right, so right now we have our Save, or Undo, and our Redo. So we're gonna click to dropdown, come on down to New, click the dropdown again, come on down to Open. So we get a little piece of paper and a folder as a representation of New and Open. Also, if we want to use a button on our ribbon, such as the Bold, we simply come on over to Home, right-click on the Bold button, and come on down to Add to Quick Access Toolbar, and left-click. Now that's our Quick Access Toolbar. We also have our ribbon, and on the left of the ribbon, again, we have the File tab, and whenever we go into File, File is always Open, Save, Close, New, Print, Import, Export. And that's the same here. We're in our backstage view of Visio. Come back up to the top, hit the arrow. And on the left we have our Shapes panel. And with the Shapes panel, we can hover at the edge, look for the black two arrows, drag it, make it longer, make it shorter. There we go. And also in our Shapes panel we have our stencils, which are containers for our shapes. So you'll see a particular stencil selected, and you'll see the shapes underneath. You click on Flowcharts, our Flowcharts are selected, and our flowcharts shapes are are underneath. We'll click on Basic Shapes. We have our basic shapes underneath. At the bottom, actually, let's go to the right. On the right, you'll have your diagram page, and we have a diagram that's already been created for our hiring process at the bottom. Next to your flowchart, we're gonna click on the org chart and click on basic shapes. Now, our pages are similar to Excel, where you have your your worksheets at the bottom. Also below our sheets, we're gonna click on Flowchart. Also below our sheets, we have our blue bar, which is our status area, and if we right-click on our status area, we have options that we can view, the header, the footer, the length, the angle, the zoom. All right, so all of those different features. We can click away from it, come on down to the bottom and on the right, and you can zoom out by hitting the minus sign, you can hit the plus sign and you can zoom in. We can also click on our fit to current page view. Click on that, and that's gonna fit the window in exact, so we get a chance to see the entire page. Come up to the top and let's take a look at the ribbon. Now, under Home, Home is a combination of Format and Edit. So we have our Cut, Copy, and Paste, we can also see our Groups, Clipboard, Font, Paragraph. So these are the name of some of our groups. We're gonna click on "Human Resources: Hiring a Candidate," and let's quickly change the font from 36 to 48. We can also change the font color. And we can also change the font style. So any font style will do. All right, and we'll bring that back down. Also, we can change our paragraph and our position of our text, so the center, to the left, to the right, also, we have our tools and we have our Pointer Tool. So with the Pointer Tool, you can select and hover at the edge... Move that title around. If you come on over a little bit more, we have our Quick Styles that we can apply. Also we can apply Fill, Line, and Effects to our texts and our shapes. We can also control the stacking order of our shapes. We can bring to front, send to back, change the position and also change the alignment, and we can also change our shapes really quickly and control the layers. Next to Home is Insert. We can insert a new page, insert a picture, insert charts, insert computer aided design drawings or CAD drawings, insert hyperlinks, containers, and screen tips. At the top, next to Insert, is Design. So if we have branding colors, we can control the theme of our page. You get a preview just by simply hovering over your themes. Over on the left, we also have our orientation. We can change the page orientation from portrait to landscape and back again. All way to the right, you can apply backgrounds, borders, and titles, and change the layout. At the top, next to Design is Data. So if we wanted to bring our metadata to the front, now the metadata's the invisible data in the background of each shape. So if we were to click on the first shape, our pill, reporting a hiring need, come up to the top and work your way over to where you have Shape Data Window. Let's click on that. And that's going to give us the metadata, or the background data, associated with that particular shape. And if we click on another shape, doesn't change, because we don't have anything in here just yet, but we're viewing our background data that's associated with that particular shape. Let hit the X. Next to Data is Process. So if we're following the protocol of a flowchart, we can actually use our process... Ribbon, tab, to walk us through the protocol and make sure we've dotted our Is and crossed our Ts. Come on over to the right, click on Review, and under Review, you have Spelling, Research, Thesaurus, Check Accessibility, and we can also perform a translation. Next to View is Review. Under Review, if you have your ruler, you can turn off the ruler. Click back on the ruler. If you're a big fan of drafting paper and drawing, we can click on the grid, and we'll see our page is now on a grid, we can click off of it. Also, any sort of page breaks we may have, we can click on that. We can also open up other paints that may be helpful, and we can also zoom in. So if we click on Zoom, and we click on 200%, we're gonna zoom in super duper close, and if we click on Fit to Window, we're gonna fit that page to the window. We can also fit to width. And that's gonna fit the widths of that page to the window. Let's click back on Fit to Window. We also have our Dynamic Grid, our AutoConnect, we'll talk about those later on when we're building our diagram, and we can also control how our pages stack within Visio. We can create a new page, arrange all of the pages, and cascade the pages right on top of each other. Let's come back over the Home. So in review, we've talked about the Quick Access Toolbar, our ribbon, our File tab, our Shapes panel, and our stencils and our shapes as well. We've also talked about our drawing page, and at the bottom we talked about our various pages that were created. So flowchart, org chart, and basic shapes. Let's click back on flowchart, and we also talked about the status area and the blue as well. That's the Visio environment, and we're definitely going to learn some more and some more detail about Microsoft Visio. Thanks for watching.
