Microsoft Visio 2021: Controlling Your View

Name: Microsoft Visio 2021: Controlling Your View
Author: Ali Green

Learn how to use Zoom, Show Tools, and Visio Aids in Microsoft Visio

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Course: On-Demand

Hello, this is Ali Green and in this lesson, we're going to explore using our font panel, changing the font style, font size, and font color. Let's get started. So in our drawing, and we're gonna zoom out just a bit by holding control and scrolling down on the mouse wheel. In our drawing we have our shapes as well as our texts within our shapes. Let's hover at the edge of our shapes and drag a selection over all of our shapes. And we'll zoom in just a little bit. Come up to the top, make sure we're on home and come on over to the font panel. Now, in the font panel, a very easy way to increase the font is to click on letter A, the arrow pointing up and increase the font. We can also decrease the font. And if we're particular about a font size, we'll come on over to left, click the drop down and come on down to 24. We can also click the drop down and come down to 16. If we wanna change our font style, we'll come on over to where it says Calibri, click the dropdown and we'll take a look at our various fonts we can choose from. And if we hover over our fonts, we'll see a change. Let's click on Arial Black and our font has changed. We can also bold our font. Okay, let's try a little bit of a different font. We can also italicize our font and underline it. And if we wanna put a strike through the name, we'll hit the strike through. We'll also come over to our dropdown where we have normal case. We're gonna click on all caps. Click the dropdown, we'll capitalize each word. It's just one word. We'll click the dropdown and we'll choose small caps. Let's go back to normal cap. We'll click the dropdown for the color. And when we hover over our color, our font will change color. At the bottom of the font panel and over to the right are more font options. We're gonna click on that little arrow and that's gonna bring up our text panel options. Underneath, you'll see font and you'll see a lot of the same controls except everything's in one place. So our case, position, underline, strike through, you make the change, hit apply. We'll get the double strike through rather than a single strike through. Again, we can change the color, hit apply. There's our color change and we can also change our size. We'll switch that to 18 and we'll hit apply. At the top, we have character. So if we want it to scale our character to 200, hit apply, we've scaled to 200%. We're gonna click on our scale, switch it to 100, hit apply. That'll bring us back. We also have our spacing. We can expand our spacing and our text expands. Also have our paragraph. We can change the paragraph position. We have our text block. We can change the position within our text block. We can also set the tabs and put a bullet on our list. Let's hit cancel. So our text is just as important as our shapes because it helps enhance our drawing and make our drawing more understandable. We've just reviewed our options and our font panel and we've just made changes to our shapes texts. Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson.

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Course Description

When you’re working on a drawing in Visio, it can be useful to know how you can zoom in on different features. With fully developed drawings, there can be a lot of shapes and connectors, so it can be difficult to see and select key pieces of information. How can you zoom in on the page? What tools does Microsoft Visio have to help you create a clean and structured drawing?

In this module, we will explain how you can use rulers, guides, and grids in Microsoft Visio, and their importance in managing a drawing or diagram. We will also cover the Dynamic Grid button, which allows the user to eyeball the shapes for accurate alignment. We will explain the importance of the Visual Aids tool and how it allows control of the Dynamic Grid for smart. By the end of this module, you will understand how to use the Show Tool group to control the visibility of the rulers, page breaks, grid, and guides.

What You'll Learn

Describe the different features of the Zoom Tool to focus on different parts of a drawing
Use the Zoom Tools to zoom in on the page and select key shapes and connectors
Apply rulers, guides, and grids to manage and structure a drawing or diagram
Turn the Visual Aids on and off to control the Dynamic Grid
Use the Show Tools group to control the visibility of rulers, page breaks, grid, and guides

Key Takeaways

Zooming in helps you see and select key shapes and connectors in fully developed drawings that contain many elements.
Rulers, guides, and grids are tools in Microsoft Visio used to manage and structure a drawing or diagram.
The Dynamic Grid button lets the user eyeball shapes for accurate alignment.
The Visual Aids tool allows control of the Dynamic Grid for smart alignment.
The Show Tools group controls the visibility of the rulers, page breaks, grid, and guides.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Microsoft Visio 2021 module cover?

It explains how to use rulers, guides, and grids in Microsoft Visio and their importance in managing a drawing or diagram, covers the Dynamic Grid button for accurate alignment, the Visual Aids tool, and how to use the Show Tools group to control the visibility of rulers, page breaks, grid, and guides.

What lessons are included in this course?

The course includes three lessons: Using the Zoom Tools, Using the Show Tools, and Using the Visual Aids Tool.

What skills will I develop in this course?

The course builds skills in Auxiliary View Drawing, Graphical Tools, Microsoft Visio, VISI (CAD/CAM Software), Visual Control, and Visual Modeling.

What is the Dynamic Grid button used for?

The Dynamic Grid button allows the user to eyeball the shapes for accurate alignment, and the Visual Aids tool allows control of the Dynamic Grid for smart alignment.