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We provide Adobe Framemaker training in Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset. Locations include Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Ringwood, Andover, Basingstoke, Dorchester, Farnborough, Ferndown, Portsmouth, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Weston-super-mare, etc.

Number on coursePrice per day
1 - 1 training£375 + VAT
2 - 4 people£575 + VAT
5 - 8 people£795 + VAT

Who Should Attend:

This 2-day course is designed for complete beginners and new users to the software who need to author and edit FrameMaker document and book files.

Pre-requisites:

No prior knowledge of FrameMaker is required.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the user will be able to confidently author existing FrameMaker documents, create new files and manage FrameMaker books.

Course Content

Getting Started

  • Overview of FrameMaker
  • Understanding Panels, Pods and Workspaces
  • Opening files, closing, and saving files
  • Navigation and zoom techniques
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Setting general preferences
  • View options
  • Output to PDF

Applying Formats to Text (Styles)

  • Understanding the difference between character and paragraph formats
  • Applying Paragraph and Character formats to text
  • Importing formats between individual files and files contained in a book

Working with Text

  • Setting spelling preferences
  • Running the spelling checker
  • Using Find and Change
  • Using the Thesaurus
  • Inserting special characters
  • Inserting document and table footnotes<.li>
  • Inserting user variables

Index and Hyperlink Markers

  • Marking text for inclusion in an index
  • Editing index entries
  • Inserting Hyperlinks

Working with Graphics

  • Creating simple line art
  • Understanding page and text anchored graphics
  • Manipulating anchored frames and understanding import by reference and by copy
  • Creating screenshots with Roboscreen capture
  • Importing video

Tables

  • Inserting and manipulating Tables

Cross-Referencing

  • Inserting and updating cross-references within individual files and across a book file

Revising Documentation

  • Using Change Bars to indicate modifications made to a document
  • Setting automatic change bars
  • Comparing two versions of a document
  • Working with track changes

Conditional Formatting

  • Applying conditional format tags
  • Showing and hiding conditional information

Page Layout

  • Understanding the important role the Master Pages play in a FrameMaker document
  • Applying Master Pages to control a document’s layout

Book Files

  • Setting numbering and pagination options. Updating book files
  • Generating Table of Contents and Index files for the book

To request further details of any of our courses, or to make a booking for Adobe Framemaker training, please contact us by ringing 01747 820396 or 07477 578417 or by sending an email to info@archwayct.co.uk or filling in our contact form.