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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)

Exporting diagrams to Microsoft PowerPoint for presentation

We looked at some parts of the View ribbon tab in the previous chapter, but now we will concentrate on the Export | PowerPoint button. This button in desktop Visio Plan 2 will open the Slide Snippets panel on the right, shown as follows:

Figure 9.6 - The Slide Snippets panel

Figure 9.6 - The Slide Snippets panel

We can click the Add button at the top of the Slide Snippets panel, and a Slide Snippet rectangular shape is dropped in the center of the view. A preview image is added to the list in the Slide Snippets panel. The title of this snippet can be edited in the panel, and the rectangular shape can be resized, moved, and deleted. It is just a special Visio shape locked to a particular layer, and it will not be deleted if the Slide Snippets panel is closed; it will simply become invisible because the Slide Snippets layer will be made invisible. This is useful because these shapes are saved with the Visio document and can also be...