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Using Visio to document workflow design

Using Visio to document workflow design

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Using Visio to document workflow design

The very best tool that you can use to document your workflow is Microsoft Visio 2010. Visio is meant to diagram processes, to diagram layouts, and many folks are used to looking at different diagrams that are made with Visio. You may have Visio on your computer already. If you do, you'll find it in the Microsoft Office group, and I'm going to go ahead and click on Flowcharts because a workflow needs a flowchart. You'll notice that there is a set of templates called Microsoft SharePoint Workflow. There are three different editions of Microsoft Visio for 2010, Standard, Professional, and Premium. This Microsoft SharePoint Workflow is only available with Premium, and we'll be discussing this later in this course. But whether you have Standard, Professional, or Premium, all of them have some flowcharting tools that you can use. The way you decide what tool to use is a two-step process. One part is what tool are you most familiar with using. But the second is which of the tools is going…

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