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Adobe FrameMaker Training Course

 

Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker 8
Duration: 3 days
Adobe Framemaker

Course Synopsis: This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe
FrameMaker 8 effectively. You get hands-on practice working with techniques in the Unstructured View of FrameMaker in order to get the most out of your experience. You will learn the skills that will allow you to take advantage of long-document support that
includes book management features, sophisticated tables, and rich formatting options offered by FrameMaker.

Who Should Attend: Professionals who need an essential understanding of authoring
and publishing using FrameMaker 8 Unstructured View. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises.

Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend working with the application tutorial before coming to the course.

What You Will Learn:
• Unstructured Documents
• Using Templates
• Paragraph Styles
• Character Formatting
• Working with Tab Stops
• Inserting New Elements
• Validating a Document
• Drawing Objects
• Importing Files
• Working with Tables

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Advanced Adobe Photoshop and FrameMaker Advanced. Please take a look at the other course outlines..

Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.


Adobe FrameMaker Training Course Outline

 

LESSON 1
Working with Framemaker
documents

Exploring the document window
Applying predefined paragraph
Applying predefined character
Writing a short memo

LESSON 2
Defining Paragraph Formats
Creating a custom document
Copying text
Setting up rulers and the grid
Creating a side-head area
Displaying the Paragraph Designer
Formatting headings
Formatting body text
Formatting numbered lists
Formatting bulleted lists
Creating a chapter title
Deleting formats

LESSON 3
Defining Colors and Character
Formats

Defining custom colors and tints
Adding color to paragraph formats
Adding color to autonumbers
Emphasizing words and phrases

LESSON 4
Page Layout
Changing column layout
Displaying master pages
Numbering pages
Creating a running footer
Finishing the footers
Custom master pages
Create a new paragraph format

LESSON 5
Graphics
Adjusting header and footer frames
for graphics
Importing a graphic
Masking part of a graphic
Copying the graphics
Drawing lines and rectangles
Aligning and distributing objects
Copying the graphics

 

LESSON 6
Document Editing
Viewing the document
Turning off the display of graphics-
Defining a user variable
Inseting variables
Finding and changing text
Changing a variable definition
Using the thesaurus
Checking spelling

LESSON 7
Tables
Inserting a table
Filling in the table
Adding rows and columns
Rearranging information
Formatting text in table cells
Resizing columns
Changing the table format
Straddling table cells
Reusing a table format

LESSON 8
Customizing Tables
Viewing a sample table
Importing text into a table
Formatting body cells
Formatting the table title
Setting basic table properties
Resizing columns
Using tabs in table cells
Defining ruling styles
Setting table ruling
Using custom ruling and shading

LESSON 9
Anchored Frames and Graphics
Editing text containing anchored frames
Importing a graphic
Importing a second graphic
Anchoring graphics in the column
Using art in the margin
Copying anchored frames
Using inline graphics
Reusing anchored frames
Using run-in art
Creating a drop cap
Importing movies into documents

 

 

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