Description

This two day class picks up where Getting Started with FrameMaker leaves off and focuses on learning the skills necessary to create and maintain templates for documents to be used in books or as single files. Participants learn how to create, edit, and format documents that include text, tables, anchored frames, graphics, paragraph and character styles, and numbered lists.

Topics Covered

• Shortcuts and Icons
• Advanced Spell Checker, Thesaurus, and Find/Change options
• Creating and Using Templates
• Creating and Modifying Character Formats
• Creating and Modifying Paragraph Formats
• Creating simple and complex numbered lists
• Manipulating Anchored Frames and Graphic Frames
• Using the Graphics Toolkit
• Creating Table Formats
• Creating Custom Page Layouts

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Prerequisites:

Getting Started with FrameMaker

In fairness to all students, anyone attending this class that has not taken our Getting Started with FrameMaker class, is required to have proficient knowledge on all the topics covered in the detailed course outline for this class.

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Preferences

• Setting FrameMaker preferences
• Setting user preferences
• Setting compatibility preferences

Output

• Saving FrameMaker documents as other formats

Editing

• Inserting special characters
• Pasting from other applications (Paste Special)
• Advanced Find/Change features
• Customizing (including controlling hyphenation) and using the Spelling Checker
• Using the Thesaurus

Character formats

• Creating and applying character formats
• Distinguishing between local formatting and character formatting
• Identifying and removing overrides
• Deleting unused character formats
• Using the As Is property in a character format

Paragraph formats

• Applying paragraph formats
• Identifying and removing overrides
• Setting all properties in the Paragraph Designer
• Adding graphic elements to the reference pages to use as a frame above or frame below
• Creating standard and custom bullet styles
• Setting up numbered procedures
• Setting up multiple levels of numbered headings
• Globally changing one paragraph format to another at the file and at the book level

Graphics

• Specifying anchored frame properties
• Resizing graphics
• Shrinkwrapping anchored frames
• Creating callouts
• Using the drawing tools
• Adding page-anchored objects to graphics
• Setting runaround properties for page-anchored objects

Tables

• Setting table properties
• Creating table formats
• Designing custom ruling styles
• Removing unused table formats
• Rotating table text
• Sorting tables
• Adding and changing table system variables

Master pages

• Setting pagination properties
• Creating custom master pages, including how to design a landscape master page
• Adding simple headers and footers to master pages
• Associating custom master pages with body pages

Templates

• Creating templates
• Basing new files on existing templates
• Updating existing files from templates

General workflow issues

The following topics are covered throughout the course:

• Using keyboard shortcuts
• Customizing the FrameMaker ini file to more easily copy text from Word