Using windows:

In “Visio”, we have a number of important and less important windows which make it easier for us to work with.
By clicking on the “View” tab in the “Menu bar” and selecting a window from the drop-down menu, we can show or hide one or more of these windows.

The most common window will probably be the “Shapes window”. With the help of this window, we can click and drag some shapes to the drawing page.

By default it opens to the left of the application, but you can place t at any position of the screen.
To do this, place the mouse pointer over the title bar of the “Shapes” window, and when it changes into a four-headed arrow, click and drag it to the desired position.

This holds good for all windows, including the second option, i.e, the “Pan and zoom” window.
With the help of this window you can zoom in and out on your chart. This is really useful when there is a lot of data on a page in the diagram.

By scrolling the slider in the “Pan and zoom” window up or down, you can zoom in or out.
You can adjust the size by moving the cursor over the edge of the zoom level.
You can change the zoom level by moving the cursor in the zoom level and by clicking and dragging the zoom level.

The “Pan and Zoom” window can be moved by clicking on the title bar and dragging it to the required position.

The next window is the “Shape Data” window.

If the shapes used in our diagram, contain data, we can use the “Database Export Wizard” to create a database table that contains this data.

We will discuss more on this in a later lesson.

The next window is the “Size and position” window.

In this window, we can see the correct position of the shape in the page by means of the x and y coordinates.

We can set the width and height of the selected shape.
We can define an angle for this shape, and we can change the pin position of this shape. The pin position is the pivot point of the shape.

In other words, you change the pin position of a shape only if you want to rotate it.

Finally we have the “Drawing Explorer” window.

When it is open, you can immediately see which shapes, connecting lines, backgrounds, and other stuff that are used in the diagram.

Click on the plus sign to expand the folders and items used to see.

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