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Before Big Docs Made Easy, there was no easy way to ensure consistent formatting enterprise-wide.

Big Docs Made Easy explains the Seven Tenets of Easy Maintenance Documentation, which include Single Sourcing, Global Control of Formatting, and Standard Solutions Set. By using the Seven Tenets, not only can you easily control the appearance of hundreds, even thousands of documents, you can ensure that all users understand how to use the formats and where to go when they don’t.

Big Docs Made Easy contains hundreds of pages of tips, tricks, processes, and reference material that is not available in any other book, including a complete list of special characters, keyboard shortcuts, and in-depth explanations of FrameMaker’s building blocks.

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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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Word’s ubiquity virtually ensures that some Word content must be converted to FrameMaker. No other book documents this process. Transformatting Word to FrameMaker provides not only the how with step-by-step procedures but explains why to use or avoid certain processes or tools.

Transformatting Word to FrameMaker, the second volume in the Foundations of FrameMaker series, continues from The Essentials of FrameMaker by explaining other less-frequently used tools.

Conditional Text is a great way to reduce document maintenance for shared content, but how and where do you start? Transformatting Word to FrameMaker explains the planning, creation, usage, and administration of conditional documents. More importantly, you’ll learn how to split chapters and create multiple books to emulate conditional documents.

If you ever create equations in FrameMaker, you’ll want to keep Transformatting Word to FrameMaker handy because it demystifies the quirks of the Equation Editor and shows you how to create complex equations easily and recover from mistakes!

Transformatting Word to FrameMaker has dozens of suggestions, workflows, and explanations for the best ways to:

• Use index marker building blocks to specify a range of pages
• Format index entries using Character Formats
• Create Chapter-level Tables of Contents and incorporate them in books
• Use Custom Ruling and Shading to modify the appearance of table cells
• Move graphics to reduce the work needed to find missing graphics
• Easily resolve unresolved cross-references and text insets
• Rename files to nearly eliminate unresolved cross-references and text insets
• Use Table Formats to Control Graphic Standoff and add callouts to graphics
• Import native Adobe Illustrator files or use OLE to import Visio graphics and when to create PDFs instead
• Document maintenance processes

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