RE: FrameMaker and MS Word

["Lisa Wright" <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Steve Lefevers wrote: 
"I have just started using Framemaker 5.5.6 and have a couple of general
questions. I'm using Neuburger's Master Series book which is
outstanding.

"MS Word has a default Normal.dot Template inherent in the program. It
doesn't seem like Framemaker has a similar Template like Normal.dot.
True?"

Steve, you've hit on the thing that had me gnashing my teeth for DAYS
trying to figure out. The Neuburger book doesn't ever talk about this
point. I think I finally got it out of the Dummies book and saved my
sanity. I never had such a hard time picking up a software program as
when I tried to learn Frame.

The think is that there is a fundamental conceptual difference between
Word (and PageMaker, and QuarkXPress, for that matter too!) and
FrameMaker. "Templates" as you think of them in Word do not exit in FM.
A Frame template is any old .fm file that you save with a new name. No
separate file extension, no unique behavior, nada. Nyet. Zippo.

This concept of inherited properties also carries over to things like
styles. As you noted, in Word (and QXP) you can base one style on
another. That way, if you update one, you update all the child styles.

Once you get this firmly entrenched in your brain, most of the other FM
tricks should fall neatly into place. I really like it now that I *get*
it.

Also--this is very important!--there is only ONE level of undo.

If you copy text from Word, select Paste Special-->Unformatted text or
it will simply embed the text from the word doc as a separate text flow
in your doc.

Lisa

p.s.: "Page Breaks" are listed under the indexes in the references you
have.


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