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Both Maggie's and Anna's suggestions are good advice.
This is how I learned FM, and it has worked for me.
Pam
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To: Anna Junglas; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: FrameMaker training
And to figure all that stuff out, you may want to pick up Framemaker's
"Classroom in a Book". It will walk you through all the basics in an
organized way, and be a better reference than Adobe's so-called Help.
Maggie
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> > My current job does not use FrameMaker and I think I'm
> getting out of
> > touch with reality...
>
> > What's the BEST way to learn FrameMaker?
>
> Take your biggest Word document...something in the
> hundred-page range, and figure out how to convert it to a
> book and file FM model, with styles, x-refs, imported images,
> all the FM elements.
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