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User Interface Basics

Visio provides various means for you to input information and to feed information back to you. In this tutorial you will learn about Visio's communications interfaces. 

There are five basic user interface items in Visio.

Menus

These are found at the top of the screen above the toolbars or by right clicking.

Window and pop-up menus in Visio.

Toolbars

These are located at the top of the screen and contain tool buttons for quick execution of actions

Toolbars docked under the window menu.

Status bar

This is found at the bottom of the screen. They provide useful information during the course of creating a drawing.

Visio status bar.

Accelerator keys

These are not seen on the screen, but when used, provide a very efficient way of executing actions.

Dialog boxes

These appear when choosing certain menu items or when performing certain actions, and they provide you with many options for making modifications to your drawing. They display in a tabbed index style that combines several options into one box (version 5.0 only) or as singular entities that deal with one specific topic.

A typical Visio dialog box.

These five user interface items all behave according to Microsoft standards, and are common elements within many Window 95 applications. Because of this "common Windows 95 look and feel" of Visio, your familiarity with other Windows applications will help you in navigating the Visio interface. For example, many of the common file operations that you will use (open, save save as, print, etc.) can be found in the File menu.

The Visio Basics tutorial is based on training material devised, created and delivered by Visimation.

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