Training Course: Adobe FrameMaker - Introduction

Training Course Summary:

This intensive course is aimed at technical authors, typesetters, engineers, administrative personnel, and knowledge workers who need to prepare documents and manuals to a high standard.

Pre-Requisites:

You will benefit from comprehensive instruction that will enable you to become productive immediately.
This course does not require you to know FrameMaker at all. It is aimed at people who are new to the software or are only using it in the most basic of ways.

Who Should Attend:

This intensive course is aimed at technical authors, typesetters, engineers, administrative personnel, and knowledge workers who need to prepare documents and manuals to a high standard. You will benefit from comprehensive instruction that will enable you to become productive immediately

Training Course Overview/Content:

Document types
Templates and documents
The benefits of a template-driven approach
Template components
Standard templates
Creating a document from a template
The document environment

The document window
The QuickAccess Bar and the Formatting Bar
Using zoom
Visual guides
Navigation
Save options
Recycling content

Import formats
Importing a file
Applying styles

Paragraph styles
The Paragraph Catalog
The benefits of applying styles
Methods of applying a style to a paragraph
Character styles
The Character Catalog
Methods of applying a character style
Editing text

Inserting and deleting text
Selecting and replacing text
Clear and Undo commands
Cutting, Copying and Pasting
Smart Spaces and Smart Quotes
Special Characters
Context Menus
Spelling Checker
Find and Change
Thesaurus
Adding graphics

Page-anchored graphics
Text-anchored graphics
Text-anchored frames
Anchoring point
Importing graphics
Anchoring frames in other positions
Adding tables

Table structure
Table styles
Table Catalog
Table anchor
Adding a page break
Selecting parts of a table
Modifying the shape of a table
Resizing selected columns
Adding data to a table
Moving around in a table
Customising a table
Inserting cross-references

Cross-references
Automatic links
Updating Cross-references
Unresolved Cross-references
Identifying unresolved Cross-references
Fixing unresolved Cross-references
Layout

Page layout
Body pages
Master pages
Single-sided and double-sided documents
Custom layout
Books

A FrameMaker book file
Creating a book
Updating a book
Adding a table of contents

Generated files
Formatting a generated file
Automatic links
Adding an index

Marking index entries
Generated files
Formatting the index using a template
Automatic links
Finalising the book

Including other material in a book
Updating user defined variables
Importing variable definitions
Preparing to publish

Qualifications:

The course will also teach you how to produce fully-formatted books comprising multiple documents, including a table of contents and an index. You will become confident in the use of a full range of editing techniques to standardise information across multiple documents efficiently