Mekon Training Courses
Adobe FrameMaker 7.0
Working with Unstructured Documents and Books
Who should attend the course?
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.
How long is the course?
2 Days (optional extra day).
What are the benefits of attending?
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. It is aimed at people who are new to the software or are only using it in the most basic of ways.
You need to be familiar with PCs and the Windows environment.
Course Outline
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Templates
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Document types
Templates and documents
The benefits of a template-driven approach
Template components
Standard templates
Creating a document from a template
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The document environment
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The document window
The QuickAccess Bar and the Formatting Bar
Using zoom
Visual guides
Navigation
Save options
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Recycling content
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Import formats
Importing a file
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Applying styles
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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
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Editing text
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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
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Adding graphics
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Page-anchored graphics
Text-anchored graphics
Text-anchored frames
Anchoring point
Importing graphics
Anchoring frames in other positions
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Adding tables
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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
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Inserting cross-references
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Cross-references
Automatic links
Updating Cross-references
Unresolved Cross-references
Identifying unresolved Cross-references
Fixing unresolved Cross-references
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Layout
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Page layout
Body pages
Master pages
Single-sided and double-sided documents
Custom layout
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Books
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A FrameMaker book file
Creating a book
Updating a book
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Adding a table of contents
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Generated files
Formatting a generated file
Automatic links
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Adding an index
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Marking index entries
Generated files
Formatting the index using a template
Automatic links
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Finalising the book
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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.
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Footnotes
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Equations
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Conditional Text
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Creating PDF from FrameMaker
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