Scott Helmers

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Scott Helmers is a Partner with the Harvard Computing Group (HCG), a consulting and…

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  • Visio Tips and Tricks

    LinkedIn Learning

    Microsoft Visio is a popular diagramming app that's used in a variety of industries. In this course, Visio MVP Scott Helmers provides insider tips and techniques for getting the most out of this powerful software. Scott begins with tips for navigating the Visio interface and customizing user options. He demonstrates how to master the use of text and annotations, including how to insert fields and annotate diagrams with comments and callouts. Scott offers strategies for working more efficiently…

    Microsoft Visio is a popular diagramming app that's used in a variety of industries. In this course, Visio MVP Scott Helmers provides insider tips and techniques for getting the most out of this powerful software. Scott begins with tips for navigating the Visio interface and customizing user options. He demonstrates how to master the use of text and annotations, including how to insert fields and annotate diagrams with comments and callouts. Scott offers strategies for working more efficiently with Visio, providing time-saving techniques for creating and refining diagrams. He shares Visio keyboard shortcuts for everything from using the drawing tools to manipulating shapes, and explains how to take control of the lines in your diagram by understanding the secrets of glue and connection points.

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  • Advanced Visio: Working with Data

    LinkedIn Learning

    Build beautiful and effective visualizations driven by external data with Microsoft Visio 2016. Visio MVP Scott Helmers offers advanced techniques for working with data in Visio diagrams.

    First, learn how to apply data and display fields to shapes and run the many prebuilt reports offered in Visio 2016, as well as customize your own. Then find out how to visualize data with callouts, data bars, and icon sets; change the color of shapes as data values change; link diagrams to external…

    Build beautiful and effective visualizations driven by external data with Microsoft Visio 2016. Visio MVP Scott Helmers offers advanced techniques for working with data in Visio diagrams.

    First, learn how to apply data and display fields to shapes and run the many prebuilt reports offered in Visio 2016, as well as customize your own. Then find out how to visualize data with callouts, data bars, and icon sets; change the color of shapes as data values change; link diagrams to external data from Excel and Access; align data with flow charts, timelines, organization charts, and other Visio diagrams; and share your new data-driven diagrams with others—even if they don't have Visio. This course will help you accomplish more than you ever thought was possible with Visio, and communicate more effectively than you ever could with static data alone.

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  • Visio 2016 Step by Step

    Microsoft Press

    This is learning made easy. Get more done quickly with Visio 2016. Jump in wherever you need answers--brisk lessons and colorful screenshots show you exactly what to do, step by step.

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  • Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2013

    Microsoft Press

    Dive into the business intelligence features in SharePoint 2013—and use the right combination of tools to deliver compelling solutions.

    Take control of business intelligence (BI) with the tools offered by SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft SQL Server® 2012. Led by a group of BI and SharePoint experts, you’ll get step-by-step instructions for understanding how to use these technologies best in specific BI scenarios—whether you’re a SharePoint administrator, SQL Server developer, or business…

    Dive into the business intelligence features in SharePoint 2013—and use the right combination of tools to deliver compelling solutions.

    Take control of business intelligence (BI) with the tools offered by SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft SQL Server® 2012. Led by a group of BI and SharePoint experts, you’ll get step-by-step instructions for understanding how to use these technologies best in specific BI scenarios—whether you’re a SharePoint administrator, SQL Server developer, or business analyst.

    Discover how to:

    Manage the entire BI lifecycle, from determining key performance indicators to buildingdashboards

    Use web-based Microsoft Excel® services and publish workbooks on a SharePoint Server
    Mash up data from multiple sources and create Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) using PowerPivot
    Create data-driven diagrams that provide interactive processes and context with Microsoft Visio® Services

    Use dashboards, scorecards, reports, and key performance indicators to monitor and analyze your business
    Use SharePoint to view BI reports side by side, no matter which tools were used to produced them

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  • Visio 2013 Step by Step

    Microsoft Press

    The fastest, easiest way to learn Visio 2013 using hands-on, practical exercises. All exercises and sample diagrams are available for download with purchase or book or ebook.

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  • Visio 2010 Step by Step

    Microsoft Press

    Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create professional-looking business and technical diagrams with Visio 2010. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

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Honors & Awards

  • Microsoft MVP for Visio

    Microsoft

    I have been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for Visio every year since 2008:
    https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4020447

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