Microsoft Visio 2021: More Drawings and Floor Plans

Name: Microsoft Visio 2021: More Drawings and Floor Plans
Author: Ali Green

Learn how to create Brainstorming Diagrams, Gantt Charts, and Office Layouts in Microsoft Visio

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Hello, this is Ali Green, and in this lesson, we're going to use our brainstorming diagram. Whenever we're talking about our brainstorming diagrams, it's a way for us to take a specific idea and draw corresponding ideas around it. So it's a fantastic tool for thinking out a process. Words that we would hear or terms that we would hear similar to our brainstorming diagram are cognitive maps, mind maps, and a concept map. Let's get started. Come up to File at the top and over to the right, you'll see our brainstorming diagram. Now, of course, if we're searching for a brainstorming diagram and we happen not to see it here at the top, you can always go to Office and do a search and type in a brainstorming diagram and it'll pop up. For now, we'll click on a brainstorming diagram right over here and let's click on it. We're gonna leave it in US units, and we're gonna come over to the left. We'll see our brainstorming shapes. So we have our main topic, topics. We also have our legend shapes where if we have ideas that we wanna convey or things of importance, high importance, low importance, or any questions or any follow ups that we may have, we can actually add them to our diagram. We also have our outline view for our diagram, as well as we have a tab at the top for brainstorming. So to set up our main topics, subtopics, our peer topics, or our multiple subtopics. Let's click on brainstorming shapes, grab the main topic and drag it to the middle. Our theme will be a business plan. So let's type My Business Plan. And around our business plan, we want to talk about marketing, sales, and product. Let's grab our topic, topic and topic. So three different topics. So we'll click on one topic, type in marketing, click on another topic, type in sales. And our third topic, we have products. And in our outline window, we have our business plan, marketing, sales, and products. We wanna make a connection to these shapes. So let's grab marketing, drag to My Business Plan, take sales, drag to My Business Plan and take products and drag to My Business Plan. So all three are connected to My Business Plan. We also wanna change the shape. We'll click on sales, hold Shift, marketing and products. We'll click on all three of those shapes. Come up to our brainstorming tab, come over to the left and the Arrange section, and click on Change Topic. And under change topic, we'll choose rectangle. And let's click on OK. So now we have our marketing, sales, and our product. Let's click on sales. And let's say one important part of sales is the number of calls made. So we're gonna come up to the top, click on Subtopic. And a new topic comes from sales. And we'll type in number of calls made. Let's scroll over, click on marketing and let's say you wanna market for social media as well as print. So we'll click on marketing. And again, click on subtopic. There's our subtopic. Click on subtopic, click on marketing and click on subtopic again. And there's our second subtopic. We'll say print media as well as social media. Let's click on products and on products, let's talk about customer service. Click on subtopic, customer service. Let's zoom out a bit. And so far, it looks pretty good. Now what we also wanna do is for certain ideas that we have, we want to have follow ups. We also want to convey whether or not it's a good idea, if it's important, or if it's low important. So if we come on over to the left, click on Legend Shapes, we're gonna come down to our legend and drag our legend to our page. And with the legend, as we drag our legend shapes to our page, they'll update in the legend. So for ideas, where the best businesses to call or how can we get a really good phone list to call? So we're gonna put the light bulb next to sales. And in the legend, you have your light bulb. We also stress the importance of sales, and we'll get the important sales there. Take that. We also wanna think about best places to print, and best social media platforms. Our customer service may need follow up. We also may have questions. And if we look at our legend, we will see updates to the legend from our shapes, how many shapes are being used and the description of the shapes. So that's our brainstorming chart. We've talked about our legends, we've talked about our brainstorming shapes, our main topic and our topics that are connected to it. Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson.

Intermediate Provider : Ali Green 3 Lessons · 21m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

In this module, we will explore Microsoft Visio and the tools and templates you can use to create effective Brainstorming Diagrams, also known as Concept Maps, Mind Maps, and Cognitive Maps, that can help you develop central ideas and create a work process. We will explain how you can use a Gantt chart to track a project's timeline, resources, and deadlines. You will also learn about the Office Layout, which can help visualize the potential layout of an office even before physically moving any furniture, and how Visio is great for creating more simplistic outlines of a workspace. There are many effective tools and templates offered by Microsoft Visio and knowing how to properly use them can have a positive impact on your personal and professional life.

In this module, we will explore how to develop a central concept or idea with a Brainstorm Diagram, how a Gantt Chart can help allocate resources and timelines when planning a project, and how you can use the Office layout to help conceptualize the arrangement of your workspace.

What You'll Learn

Create an Office Layout to visualize the arrangement of a workspace before moving furniture
Build a Gantt Chart to track a project's timeline, resources, and deadlines
Develop central concepts and ideas by creating a Brainstorming Diagram
Create a Floor Plan to outline a workspace in Microsoft Visio
Identify the tools and templates Microsoft Visio offers for these drawings

Key Takeaways

A Brainstorming Diagram, also known as a Concept Map, Mind Map, or Cognitive Map, helps develop central ideas and create a work process.
A Gantt chart can be used to track a project's timeline, resources, and deadlines, and to allocate resources and timelines when planning a project.
The Office Layout helps visualize the potential layout of an office before physically moving any furniture.
Microsoft Visio is well suited for creating more simplistic outlines of a workspace.
Knowing how to properly use Microsoft Visio's tools and templates can have a positive impact on personal and professional life.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Microsoft Visio 2021 module cover?

This module explores how to create Brainstorming Diagrams, Gantt charts, and Office Layouts in Microsoft Visio, using its tools and templates to develop ideas, plan projects, and conceptualize workspace arrangements.

What is a Brainstorming Diagram in Visio?

A Brainstorming Diagram, also called a Concept Map, Mind Map, or Cognitive Map, is used to develop a central concept or idea and create a work process.

How can a Gantt chart help with project planning?

A Gantt chart helps track a project's timeline, resources, and deadlines, and allocate resources and timelines when planning a project.

What can the Office Layout be used for?

The Office Layout helps visualize the potential layout of an office and conceptualize the arrangement of your workspace before physically moving any furniture.

What skills does this course cover?

It covers Brainstorming, Diagramming Software, Floor Planning, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Visio, and Project Layout.