Book Samples

Big Docs Made Easy

Big Docs Made Easy is the culmination of ten years of using FrameMaker and five years of training FrameMaker users.

Here is what is in the PDF sample from Big Docs Made Easy:

The first two pages of the sample discuss the main business reasons for implementing Easy Maintenance Documentation practices (the foundation for Big Docs Made Easy).

The next 16 pages of the sample introduce the heart of Big Docs Made Easy: the Second Tenet and the concept of the Master Template and the Local Template.

There are many pages of tips and tricks; the next 12 pages of the sample show some tricks you can try out before you purchase the book.

There are three appendixes of hard-to-find information; special characters, buliding blocks, and shortcuts, respectively. The next 5 pages show how the building blocks appendix arranges its information. The last 3 pages give you a taste of how the shortcuts are presented. One page each for shortcuts grouped by task, alphabetically sorted by task, and alphabetically sorted by shortcut.

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Essentials of FrameMaker

Our first usage-based manual in the Foundations of FrameMaker series explains how to use FrameMaker to create documents from templates, how to format text using paragraph formats, character formats, and table formats defined in the template. Users then create a book and generate a table of contents and index.

The Essentials of FrameMaker contains process roadmaps and workflows that users need for everyday FrameMaker tasks. The Essentials of FrameMaker embodies task-based or skill-level-appropriate training; extensive practice exercises provide many opportunities for guided learning to cement the concepts presented in the main part of each module.

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Transformatting Word to FrameMaker

Our second manual in the Foundations of FrameMaker series is directed at users who perform more specialized tasks, such as converting Word documents to FrameMaker, using conditional text, using Equation tools, and other document maintenance tasks.

Transformatting Word to FrameMaker is most useful for quickly learning how to use the higher level functions of FrameMaker, as well as learning some concepts and general workflows that can be implemented in your organization.

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