RE: What are the top ten features Word users hate about FM?

[Deborah Snavely <dsnavely@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hedley, here's a few more suggestions:

How come my chapter numbers say chapter 1 in every file?

How do I restart a numbered procedure?

How do I indent/outdent a paragraph (numbered para, bulleted para)?

How do I move this graphic I inserted?

How do I delete this (period, tab, whatever) from my the beginnning of my
heading?

How do I put a table of contents into my file?

How do I type (straight quotes, special characters, soft hyphens, soft
returns, etc., etc., etc.)? 

How do I type (fill in blank) in the Find dialog?

Dunno how well I'm guessing but some of those are where I always have to
stretch into my memory to recall how Word does it that's diff than Frame,
when I'm driven to use it. Hope that helps!

Deborah Snavely


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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:49:27 +1100 
From: "Hedley Finger (EPA)" <Hedley.Finger@ericsson.com.au>
Subject: What are the top ten features Word users hate about FM? 
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Folks:

I've got about an hour to train some engineers and software developers how
to use FM as a writing tool when supplied with an existing template.  This
means that there will be no coverage of creating para formats, page layouts,
etc. as these are all given.

Since all of these people have used Word, what are the top 15 differences
that befuddle and astonish the first-time user of FrameMaker?  Your
suggestions gratefully accepted ... I'll start the ball rolling:

1	Where is the cursor?  (What is selected when nothing is selected?)

2	How do you get outline/normal view?

3	How come you need two para styles for numbered steps?

4	Explain again the difference between the Apply and the Update
button.

5	How do you edit the headers and footers?

6	How do you split/add a single cell to a row/column in a table?  (Or
almost anything to do with tables.)

7	Conditional wha'?

8	I can't find styles mentioned in the Index.  And what are tags?

9	How do you paint para/char styles?

Surely the combined power of FM geniuses from around the world can come up
with another six.  And how about ordering them from the most confronting to
the least threatening?  [This is serious ... I need to get a few confusions
cleared up in about five minutes.]

[FrameMaker 5.5.6, Acrobat 3.02, Windows 98, HP OmniBook 2100]

Regards,
Hedley Finger   Technical Writer


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