Soft Skills for IT Pros

T11 Advanced Microsoft Visio for the IT Professional

August 4th, 2015

4:00pm - 5:15pm

Level: Intermediate

Timothy Warner

Author/Evangelist

Pluralsight

IT professionals often need to model business processes, whether for their own sanity or for submission to their boss to justify a new hardware purchase. Many IT pros fumble around with Visio, but we can exponentially boost your productivity with the application.

You will learn:

  • How to create detailed and good-looking Visio drawings that precisely capture what is needed by the busy IT pro
  • How to link a Visio drawing to a live data source, whether that source be a CSV flat file or a SQL Server database table
  • How to export Visio content in a variety of formats, including PDF, HTML, XML…
  • What's possible in terms of extending Visio by leveraging VBA code