This is a five-day course for template designers or expert users who need to know how to design and create robust FrameMaker templates and deploy them across the enterprise, as well as learn insider tips and tricks.

Prerequisite(s) to this course: FM 001 and FM 002, or equivalent experience with FrameMaker.

Part 1: The EMD environment

Building a Business Case for EMD

Reason one: to save time
Reason two: ensure adherence to enterprise styles
Reason three: improved morale

Understanding the EMD mindset

The "disposable documentation" mindset
The Easy Maintenance Documentation mindset

Part 2: The Seven Tenets of Easy Maintenance Documentation (EMD)

The 1st Tenet: Single Sourcing in FrameMaker

Creating and maintaining formats as Source
Using conditionally tagged text insets
X-Refs to conditionally tagged source paragraphs
Using autonumbers and x-refs to eliminate repetitive text
Other types of source files

The 2nd Tenet: Global Control of Formatting)

The Master Template compared to the Local Template
Standardize nomenclature
Document analysis prior to template planning
Complex autonumber format Paratags
Master Page layouts and other complex page number issues
Chapter-level tables of contents
Creating and maintaining Reference Pages and flows
Building the Master Template

The 3rdTenet: Standard Solution Set and Style Guides

Describe to template users how to use each type of format
Revising formats across documents
Globally managing graphic standoff
Creating an appendix
Building a book
Generated file formatting solutions
Hidden Anchored Frame
Graphics solutions
Changing format names from the Local Template

The 4th Tenet: Documenting Document Construction

Reasons to do this
Processes to encourage documenting document construction

The 5th Tenet: Be efficient and the efficient mindset

Maximizing a desktop for efficiency
Using shortcuts to increase efficiency

The 6th Tenet: Design maintainable documents

The 7th Tenet: Communicate Within the Workgroup

Give users a voice in the creation/modification of any formats
Communicate new formats
Communicate format changes

Part 3: Tips and Tricks

Generated Files Tricks
Electronic Review of Documents
Nearly Automatic Endnotes
Flow Tags
Fixing Problem Documents and Importing Word Documents

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