Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 Structured

Lesson 1: Overview

• How to Think About FrameMaker
• FrameMaker 7.2 Features
• Word Processing Capabilities
• Special Copying Capabilities
• Text Formatting
• Flexible Page Design
• Graphic Tools
• Book Building and Revision Management
• Revision Management
• Professional Color Control
• Stylized Tables for Organizing Information
• Information Links
• Automatic Hypertext Links
• Templates for Standardized Documents
• Typeset Mathematical Equations

Lesson 2: Working with Unstructured Documents

• Opening, Saving and Closing Files
• Interface Overview
• Setting Preferences and Zoom controls
• Working with the View settings
• Navigating Between Pages

Lesson 3: Working with Structured Documents

• About Structured Authoring
• Why FrameMaker 7.2 for Structured Authoring
• Structured Features
• Setting up for Structured Documents
• Working with the Structure window
• Working with the Element Catalog
• Structured FrameMaker Terms

Lesson 4: Editing Text

• Select, Edit, Copy, and Paste Text
• Text Options and File Info Settings
• Using Smart and Straight Quotes
• Adding special characters
• Setting the File Information

Lesson 5: Find, Spelling Checking and the Thesaurus

• Finding and Changing Text
• Using the Spelling Checker
• Using the FrameMaker Thesaurus

Lesson 6: Unstructured Templates and Paragraph Styles

• Creating a document using a template
• Working with Paragraph and Character Formats
• Adjusting the document
• Importing formats from another template

Lesson 7: Character Formatting

• Working with Character Formats
• Creating a new Character format
• Using As Is with Character Formats

Lesson 8: Paragraph Formatting

• Setting the Default Font and Basic Properties
• Creating and Using Paragraph Formats
• Using As Is and Global Update options

Lesson 9: Tabs, Pagination, and Hyphenation

• Working with Tab Stops
• Modifying Pagination Settings
• Special Pagination Formats for Headings
• Working with hyphenation

Lesson 10: Basic Numbering

• Working with Autonumbered Paragraph Formats
• Working with text in an autonumber format

Lesson 11: Using Online Help

• Application Help
• Online manuals
• Adobe Online

Lesson 12: Editing Structure

• Manipulating Elements
• Inserting elements and adding text
• Automatically inserting of children elements
• Importing a Structured Flow
• Correcting invalid elements
• Moving Elements
• Wrapping and Unwrapping Elements
• Merging and Splitting Elements

Lesson 13: Attributes

• Working with Attributes
• Changing attribute display
• Choosing attribute values
• Inserting New Elements and Attributes
• Recognizing and Correcting Attributes with Errors

Lesson 14: Validation

• Validating a Document s Structure
• Special Cases for Elements and Attributes

Lesson 15: Advanced Structure

• Element Keyboard Shortcuts
• Inserting elements
• Unstructured document conversion
• Converting Structure to XML or SGML

Lesson 16: Drawing Graphics and Text Objects

• Drawing Objects
• Editing With Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, and Undo
• Resizing Objects
• Positioning Objects
• Using Visible Grid Lines, the Invisible Snap Grid, and Gravity
• Filling Objects and Changing their Pen Pattern
• Working with Lines
• Using Text Lines, Text Frames, and Selection Tools
• Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
• Stacking Objects
• Flipping and Rotating Objects

Lesson 17: Anchored Frames

• Working with Anchored Frames
• Positioning Anchored Frames in the Margin
• Using Run Into Paragraph
• Positioning a graphic within a line
• Using Anchored Frames in a Structured Document

Lesson 18: Importing Files

• File formats
• Importing graphics by reference
• Importing graphics by copy
• Importing text
• Importing Microsoft Word files
• Importing Text and RTF
• Importing Excel spreadsheets
• Importing Adobe PDF files

Lesson 19: Cross References, System Variables and Footnotes

• Using Cross-References
• Updating Cross-References
• Resolving Cross-References
• Using cross-references in a structured document
• System variables
• Using system variables in a structured document
• Footnotes

Lesson 20: Working with Tables

• Using tables
• Moving around in a table
• Selecting and deselecting in a table
• Adjusting Tables
• Table system variables, table titles, and table footnotes
• Working with tables in a structured document
• Basic table structure
• Adding elements and text to table cells
• Inserting table footnotes