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Adobe FrameMaker: A Secret Feature in Table Styles

By Barb Binder, Adobe FrameMaker instructor at Rocky Mountain Training FrameMaker has secret feature included in table styles that not many people are aware of—we can include paragraph styles in a table style definition. It’s not as overt as InDesign’s similar feature—called nesting—that allows us to purposely nest cell styles in table styles and paragraph […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Define different colors for table header and footer rows

By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Sometimes it’s the little things. New in the Fall release of FrameMaker 2022 (v17): the ability to define a different color for the table header row than the table footer row. There is a subtle new difference in Table Designer > Shading. For the first time, we can now […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Quickly Converting Body Rows to Header Rows

By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor I keep an eye on my blog analytics and the most-read blog post since I started this in 2009 is this one: Adobe FrameMaker: Need Repeating Heading Rows? This tells me that a.) users don’t know how to define a header row and b.) they can’t figure it out on […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Tracking the Last Page Number in a Book

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor FrameMaker has had the page count variable to track the last number in a chapter for as long as I can remember. If a chapter has 10 pages, you use that variable to set up numbering that looks like this: 1 of 10, 2 of 10, etc. You can […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Variable Highlighting

By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Variables are a FrameMaker productivity feature that is hidden to those who read our finished documentation. Users add variables to automate content updates and to insert content that changes from page to page. We’ve always had the ability to highlight our variables while we are working—we could create a […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: What is a Last Line Right Indent?

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor At last! New in the Fall release of FrameMaker 2022 (v17): a last line right indent. Most of us are comfortable setting indents (first line, left and right indents) but what in the world is a “last line right indent” in FrameMaker and when might you use it? I […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Adding the Missing PDF Presets

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker One of my Adobe FrameMaker students reached out this morning and asked how to output to PDF/X-4 in FrameMaker 16. It was a great question, because that option does not appear FrameMaker’s default preset list in the Publish pod. All my student needed to do was to […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: How to Float Tables & Anchored Frames

By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Float, or Floating, is a property that can be assigned to either a table or to an anchored frame. When assigned to either object, the object will float to the next page, and the text that previously appeared after the object will backfill onto the previous page. […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Unresolved Cross-References

By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker No one likes to find themselves with unresolved cross-references (aka, x-refs) but we all encounter them from time to time. Here are a few important tips for working with them: 1. When you open a file and get the message about unresolved cross-references—and the helpful advice to […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Text Symbols

 By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker In FrameMaker, the term “text symbol” refers to the non-printing characters in a FrameMaker document. You can control the visibility of these text symbols using View > Text Symbols or Esc v t. (To invoke the Esc key shortcuts in FrameMaker, press each key sequentially, not consecutively. […]

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