Key details

Master key advanced techniques for creating FrameMaker templates, ensuring consistency across your professional documentation projects, and making them more manageable.

You’ll learn to:

• Incorporate colour into your templates.
• Create paragraph and character formats.
• Create master pages and variables.
• Design tables.
• Work with object styles and reference pages.

All topics taught are relevant to FrameMaker used in both standard (unstructured) mode and structured environments.

Advanced FrameMaker training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Expert trainers

Courses are hosted by expert trainers from a technical authoring background with vast experience of using FrameMaker professionally. See Expert trainers.

How will I learn?

FrameMaker training is hands-on and practical.

Our trainers teach the necessary theory then demonstrate techniques step-by-step. You then practice the techniques taught on a computer running FrameMaker.

There is plenty of time to ask questions, and you can take away all the files you create.

Training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A comprehensive training guide for FrameMaker, to refer to throughout the course, and to use as a refresher afterwards.
• An e-certificate confirming successful course completion. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.

After course support

Following FrameMaker training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their FrameMaker trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be familiar with the techniques taught in our Introduction to FrameMaker course, in particular character formatting, paragraphs, the table designer and master pages.

FrameMaker version

Training can be based on any version of FrameMaker to suit you.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for FrameMaker training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Advanced FrameMaker course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Advanced FrameMaker course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainers

Advanced FrameMaker training courses are hosted by:

• Philip Odell
• Lynne Telfer

Philip Odell

Philip is a highly experienced instructor specialising in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and FrameMaker.

Philip began his working life with Texas Instruments, before joining Adobe in 1995, where he worked for five years. Philip still has links with Adobe, manning their stands and carrying out presentations when they’re exhibiting in the UK.

For the last eighteen years, Philip has worked as a graphic design specialist, consultant and trainer. He continues to use Adobe applications extensively in his day-to-day professional work.

Lynne Telfer

Lynne Telfer is highly experienced instructor with over 25 years’ experience working as a professional trainer.

In the late nineties, Lynne worked for Adobe as a trainer and consultant, hosting courses in FrameMaker and other applications at all levels for Adobe’s clients. She’s provided training in Adobe’s Technical Communication and Creative applications ever since.

Lynne has expert knowledge of:

• Adobe FrameMaker – both Unstructured and Structured use.
• Adobe RoboHelp.
• Adobe Creative Cloud applications: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat.
• Adobe’s e-Learning tools – Captivate and Presenter.
• Microsoft Office suite of applications, covering the mainstream applications Word, Excel and PowerPoint to advanced level.

Lynne has a BA Hons in Educational Practice from Oxford Brookes University.

Course content

Working with Colour

• Adding colours to the template file

Paragraph Formats

• Creating, editing and deleting paragraph formats
• Creating complex numbered styles

Character Formats

• Creating, editing and deleting character formats

Conditional Format Tags

• Creating conditional tags
• Creating Boolean expressions

Master Pages

• Creating, editing, deleting and rearranging master pages
• Understanding text flow
• Connecting and disconnecting frames
• Creating and using a landscape master page

Variables

• Creating and editing user variables
• Editing system variables
• Understanding the variable building blocks

Cross Reference Formats

• Creating and editing cross-reference formats
• Understanding the building blocks

Table Design

• Creating, editing and deleting table formats

Object Styles

• Creating object styles for anchored frames and other objects

Reference Pages

• Creating referenced art as part of a paragraph design
• Editing reference pages for a Table of Contents
• Editing reference pages for an Index

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live FrameMaker course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in FrameMaker.
• Interact by speaking, using chat, or raising your ‘virtual hand’ if you need assistance.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Advanced FrameMaker courses…

• Are presented by expert instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using FrameMaker.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• FrameMaker installed.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running FrameMaker doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t, however, be able to assist with your FrameMaker installation.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time