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Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

By : David Parker, Senaj Lelic
Book Image

Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

By: David Parker, Senaj Lelic

Overview of this book

Every business has process flows, but not all of them are fully described to or verified for accuracy with each stakeholder. This not only presents a risk for business continuity but also removes the ability to make insightful improvements. To make these complex interactions easy to grasp, it’s important to describe these processes visually using symbology that everybody understands. Different parts of these flows should be collaboratively developed and stored securely as commercial collateral. Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio helps you understand why it is crucial to use a common, systematic approach to document the steps needed to meet each business requirement. This book explores the various process flow templates available in each edition of Microsoft Visio, including BPMN. It also shows you how to use them effectively with the help of tips and techniques and examples to reduce the time required for creating them, as well as how you can improve their integration and presentation. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the skills needed to create data-integrated business flowcharts with Microsoft Visio, learned how to effectively use these diagrams collaboratively, but securely, and understood how to integrate them with other M365 apps, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Power Automate.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Applying different styles to shapes

The Shape Styles group on the Home tab of desktop Visio contains the Fill, Line, and Effects drop-down menus to change these properties of the selected shapes, but it also contains the Quick Styles gallery to make pre-defined changes for all of these in one selection, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.7 – Quick Styles

Figure 7.7 – Quick Styles

Important note

Quick Styles is displayed as a button to open a gallery in the preceding screenshot, but one row of the styles may be displayed within the ribbon on larger displays, with the remaining rows of the gallery available with a drop-down button. This depends upon the resolution of the display.

There are many more options in desktop Visio than online Visio to format shapes. For example, there is currently no option to use Effects in Visio for the web, as shown in the following screenshots:

Figure 7.8 – Online Visio Shape Fill and Shape Outline options

Figure 7.8 – Online Visio Shape Fill and Shape...