FrameMaker Advanced Features Training

This is a two-day course that teaches how to use the power of FrameMaker’s advanced tools, including variables, cross-references, conditional text, generated files, and books. Prerequisite(s) to this course: FrameMaker Basics and Intermediate Features Training course or equivalent experience.

Text Flows

• Track a text flow in a document
• Create parallel flows
• Change text flow using paragraphs and graphics

Variables

• Use and edit system variables
• Create and edit user variables

Text Insets and Cross-References

• Insert text insets and automatically update documents using them
• Comparing other types of Text Insets
• Add paragraph cross-references
• Modify cross-reference formats
• Edit and update cross-references
• Learn the four causes of unresolved cross-references and how to fix them

Conditional Text

• View different versions of a conditional document
• Modify format of condition tags
• Prepare different versions of a conditional document for distribution
• Make text conditional and unconditional
• Create and apply conditional tags
• Edit conditional documents

Hypertext and PDF

• Insert hypertext markers and commands
• Use basic linking commands
• Use Acrobat Setup to define bookmarks
• Use Save As and Print to create PDF
• Create PDF files from individual files and from books

Chapter Templates

• Convert single-sided document to double-sided
• Set up paragraph and character formats
• Create and modify master page layouts
• Create chapter autonumber format

Books

• Create and add files to a book
• Control formatting and numbering of book files
• Create complex page numbers
• Generate and update files in a book
• Rearrange and delete files from book
• Use book-wide commands
• Apply Master Pages manually and automatically

Tables of Contents

• Generate a table of contents
• Modify paragraph formats
• Add and format a master page for the table of contents
• Control numbering, and content and formatting of table of contents using the TOC reference page
• Use saved table of contents as a template
• Using Running Header/Footers in TOC

Indexes

• Mark text for inclusion in an index
• Create multiple levels and entries in an index
• Generate an index
• Format an index using paragraph formats, master pages, and IX reference page
• Generate an index with hypertext links
• Use formatted index as a template
• Finishing touches for Index formatting

Course Code: FM 002

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