by Barb Binder I received the following inquiry from one of my recent Advanced Adobe FrameMaker students. I have a question about formatting tables in FrameMaker 9. My document has a large table that is built with 6 columns (example below): I need to create additional rows at the bottom of the table, that evenly divide […]
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by Barb Binder I was asked this question twice today: once during today’s Introduction to FrameMaker 9/10 class, and again via email by a student from a past FrameMaker class: I’m […] trying to get book chapters to auto-number. I have added them to my book, carefully following instructions in the guide, but I am getting […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Oct 20, 2022 NOTE: This method will still work in any version of FrameMaker. However, the process has been greatly simplified with the Fall 2022 release of FrameMaker (v17). See Adobe FrameMaker: Tracking the Last Page Number in a Book. In a previous post (Adobe FrameMaker: The […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 FrameMaker makes it easy to track (and reference) the page count of a single chapter. FrameMaker comes with a Page Count variable that makes it easy to set up running heads with page numbers that look like this: 1 of 6, 2 of […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 26, 2020 Once upon a time, the vision for FrameMaker was to be one of those 3-in-1 programs that were popular back in the ‘80s (remember Lotus 1-2-3?). The three components were word processing, illustration and page layout. Fast forward 30 years and FrameMaker is […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 26, 2020 Another question I regularly hear from my Adobe FrameMaker students is how to quickly compare two different versions of a single file. There’s an easy answer, but because the command isn’t readily visible, it’s often overlooked. Here’s how it works: Open two versions […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 26, 2020 The next topic in our FrameMaker Editing series is on Track Text Edits. (Previous articles in the series are on Change Bars and Compare Documents.) This is a familiar tool for many Word users, and is a terrific way to allow an author […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 26, 2020 “We have engineers who like to do their own editing. Can I export the text out of FrameMaker into Word so that they can edit their own documents?” This was a question posed by a student in one of my Advanced Adobe FrameMaker […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 Tables that span multiple pages are no fun to lay out, but they come up regularly in many technical publications. Two little known features that are available to help our readers figure out where they are in a multi-sheet table are the Table […]
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by Barb Binder When my husband tells me I’m special, it’s not exactly a compliment. He doesn’t mean it as an expression of esteem, respect, affection, or admiration; he means I’m a little like Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rainman. I have a tendency to put myself in situations where I need to rush around like a […]
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