🚀 go-pugleaf

Ann:

Although it's somewhat dated at this point, see if you can locate a copy of the old Classroom in a Book for FrameMaker 6 or 7.

 <http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-FrameMaker-7-0-Classroom-Book/dp/0321131681>

Although we're up to FrameMaker 8, most of the central features of FrameMaker remained constant through versions 6 and 7.

For example, proper use of FrameMaker begins with named paragraph styles. In Word, named paragraph styles are too often thought of, if they're thought of at all, as nice to haves.

And the creation and formatting of TOCs, Indexes, and other generated files is something you probably won't figure out on your own.

The Classroom in a Book will give you a nice orientation to FrameMaker, enabling you to use -- and if you're like most of us, enjoy -- the product.

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

> I can't even seem to copy text properly or
> replace an obsolete logo on one of the master pages.

Copy in Frame is the same as in just about every other program I've used 
in the last 20 years: Edit > Copy, or CTRL-C. In what way is it not working?

Replacing a graphic is pretty straightforward: delete the old one and 
import the new one. It's usually best to import graphics by reference, 
text by copying.

Ask some detailed, specific questions and you'll get some better answers.

-- 
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

Riley,

Thank you for the name of the reference book. I'll start with that and see what happens! Thanks again.

Ann

Converting docs from Word to Frame is a whole lot easier if the styles (Word) and paragraph tags (Frame) have the same name. If you change the styles in the Word template to the equivalent tags in the Frame template, re-apply the styles throughout the Word doc, then import the doc into Frame, many of the conversion chores for the text will be taken care of automatically. Sorry, but you'll probably have to handle graphics and tables by the sweat of your brow.

For more help on converting Word files, take a look at <http://www.techknowledgecorp.com/public/word2frame.pdf>

I'll check it out. Thank you!

I agree with everyone else's advice. I also enjoyed Classroom in a Book, and I used it as a refresher when I went for a while without using Frame. I would just encourage you to stick with learning Frame and be patient with yourself. It took me a solid month eight years ago to learn enough about Frame to be productive with it. As a newby, my biggest mistake was trying to make it behave like Word and getting frustrated that it wouldn't do that. Later on, when I was using Frame everyday for two years straight, I had to go back to using Word for my client, and I tried to get Word to behave like Frame, LOL!

I'm still learning. A few days ago I had to post to this board asking for help generating a table of contents. The people here are patient and nice!

One big piece of advice -- Once you get your paragraph and character styles in place, don't override them! You can add styles, but try to keep them to just what you need. Once you get up to speed with Frame, those styles will speed up your work and allow you to concentrate on your content rather than spending oodles of time on formatting.

Best wishes, and welcome to Frame!