1. Visio: Starting Usually in the Microsoft Office group
Microsoft Office Visio 2008
Visio is very flexible, select a Category
Software
UML Model Diagram
Now have a blank “canvas” named Drawing1

2. Visio: Using
Select what you want to draw or diagram from the Shapes selection box
E.g. UML Use Case
Select an item to place and drag it to the canvas
E.g. click on Actor and drag and drop it
Drag and drop Use Case

3. Visio: Using Now lets join some stuff together
Click on Communicates and drag it over toward Actor
Note when an end with a little x on it is over a little x on Actor it turns red.
Let loose of the Communicates when one end is over the Actor’s hand.
The two are joined together as shown by the red square
Click on the other green end and drag it over to a little x on the Use Case
When they match the end turns red
Let loose and the two are joined together

4. Visio: Using Actor and Use Case are now joined by a Communicates line
Put the cursor over the actor
When it turns into a big + click and drag the Actor somewhere
Note the Communicates line stays joined to the actor and everything is redrawn in the new position

5. Visio: Using
When an entity is dropped into the canvas the default name is the original name with a number.
You should have an Actor named Actor1 and a Use Case named UseCase1 at this point
Rename Actor1
Right click on Actor1 and select Properties
In Name change Actor1 to ME and click OK
Right click UseCase1 and select Properties
Change UseCase1 to Uses Visio

6. Visio: Saving Click on File in the Action Bar Click Save As…
If you are on Campus in the Novell Network you can save to your H: drive and have this work available anywhere you can log on the Novel Network
Click on My Computer
Select H:
Select or create a new directory if desired
Change the file name to one more appropriate
Click Save