Dates of training to be updated shortly

Course contents
Prerequisites:
It is assumed students understand technical writing concepts or are currently working in the technical writing or related field. This course is designed for students who have had at least a brief introduction to FrameMaker, who are familiar with the FrameMaker interface, and who already have basic editing skills, such as applying paragraph and character tags, adding/deleting text, spell checking documents, etc.

Editing and Graphics Review:
Importing formats
Creating user variables
Importing text (text insets)
Applying custom master pages
Comparing documents (revisions)
Creating and editing anchored frames
Importing graphics (methods) and setting resolution
Generating a list of graphics imported by reference

Tables:
Inserting tables and adding content (text, graphics, footnotes)
Manipulating tables (positioning, resizing, custom ruling/shading)
Adding, deleting, rearranging, and merging/splitting rows and columns
Working with multi-page tables and using table variables
Using the Table Designer to edit a table, including: basic, ruling, and shading properties

Character and Paragraph Format Design:
Creating and modifying character formats with the Character Designer
Creating and modifying paragraph formats with the Paragraph Designer,
including:
Basic properties (spacing, alignment, indenting, and tabs) Font properties Pagination properties (start & keep with, widow/orphan, and side-heads & straddling) Autonumbering properties
Advanced properties (hyphenation and assigning reference graphics) Table cell properties

Reference:
Understanding references pages and reference graphics
Creating and updating reference graphics

Indexing:
Marking documents for indexing and generating an index
Formatting an index using a template
Using hypertext links in generated files

FrameMaker:
Creating Books, adding and rearranging files, and printing from a Book
Controlling numbering and pagination across book files
Generating the tables of contents and index for multiple files
Importing formats across multiple files

Generated File Templates:
Creating templates for formatting generated files (table of contents and index)

Cross References:
Adding current and cross-document cross-references
Updating cross-references and fixing unresolved cross-references
Creating and updating cross-reference formats

Document Templates:
Understanding FrameMaker document templates
Creating custom templates, including: designing master page layouts and defining headers & footers
Adjusting existing document layouts
Reordering and renaming custom master pages
Automatically controlling the application of custom master pages
Creating and updating color definitions
Checklist: ensuring that all template parts are complete

PDFs from FrameMaker:
Understanding and setting job options
Creating PDFs from FrameMaker files and FrameMaker books
Optimizing files created in previous FrameMaker versions
Completing the PDF setup for a FrameMaker template

Introduction to Working with Structured FrameMaker Documents:
Understanding the Structured FrameMaker interface and tools
Understanding elements and attributes
Editing in structured documents (understanding the Element Catalog, inserting elements, adding text)
Correcting invalid elements
Editing element attributes
Validating documents
Inserting graphic, cross-reference and footnote elements
Working with structured tables
Using structured books and generating files
Updating structured documents by importing from a structured template and EDD