Who should attend this Adobe Framemaker course?
This course is aimed at people who are
new to the software or are only using it in the most basic of ways.
How long is this Adobe
Framemaker course?
2 Day (+optional extra day)
What are the benefits of attending this
course?
The course will give you the skills necessary to work with unstructured templates to
produce well-organised, consistent documents including graphics, tables, footnotes, equations and
cross-references. 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.
What are the prerequisites?
This course does not require you to know
FrameMaker at all. You need to be familiar with PCs and the Windows environment.
Course Outline
Templates
- 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
- CharacĂer 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
Optional
Modules
All these modules can be substituted for modules in the standard list or they can all
be taken in an optional extra day.
- Footnotes
- Equations
- Conditional
Text
- Creating PDF from FrameMaker
