Rating: 
Summary: Just an Intro
Review: MY HUSBAND BOUGHT YOUR BOOK A WEEK AGO AND HAS A LOT OF TROUBLE WITH IT, BECAUSE THE COMPUTER HE'S ON HAS DIFFERENT SYMBOLS THAN THE BOOK DESCRIBES. HE'S HAD TO CHANGE HIS CAREER FROM BEING A MODEL MAKER TO NOW LEARN THE COMPUTER SIDE OF THINGS. YOU NEED TO COME OUT WITH A BOOK THAT SHOWS THE SYMBOLS TO THE COMPUTER PROGRAM .
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Summary: UNKNOWN LANGUAGE
Review: MY HUSBAND BOUGHT YOUR BOOK A WEEK AGO AND HAS A LOT OF TROUBLE WITH IT, BECAUSE THE COMPUTER HE'S ON HAS DIFFERENT SYMBOLS THAN THE BOOK DESCRIBES. HE'S HAD TO CHANGE HIS CAREER FROM BEING A MODEL MAKER TO NOW LEARN THE COMPUTER SIDE OF THINGS. YOU NEED TO COME OUT WITH A BOOK THAT SHOWS THE SYMBOLS TO THE COMPUTER PROGRAM .
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Summary: cd-rom does not re-create the GUI
Review: My review was originally for a "Classroom in a Book"
of another Adobe product (Framemaker). The "Classroom
in a book" one for Framemaker was a bit useless
because the CD provided with the book did not recreate
the GUI of Framemaker, which means that you need to
have the complete Adobe software before you actually
want to try to learn it. Shouldn't it be the other
way around? First learn, then buy?
Rating: 
Summary: Great, but not the only source you'll need.
Review: Remember this: Adobe has meant this book to be used in conjunction with the Users Guide, not instead of it. Also, this book is simply an introduction to the many features available in FrameMaker as it walks you through different lessons that show you how you _might_ use certain tools. You will not learn everything FrameMaker has to offer by using this book alone, but you will learn a whole lot.The 15 lessons build upon one another, in "Do this...do that" type of tuttorial. You start the lessons with an existing document. The lessons have you copy and paste text over and briefly go over some formatting of new docs, but not a whole lot. The instructions are so clear, so precise that just about anyone could follow them and achieve the final product. This is a good thing for rank beginners. Users familiar with the main functions of FrameMaker may not find this book helpful. Those who teach classes in FrameMaker might find this book a valuable text--with built in homework. The review questions after each lesson are my favorite, because they force you to go back and review each concept presented. Don't skip these questions! The questions are more general in nature than the specific task. Some questions are: - What is the difference between importing a graphic by copying it into a document and importing a graphic by reference? - What are the first two basic steps you need to perform to format entries in a table of contents? - What are two ways to resize columns? The answers are in the back of the book, too, by the way if you get stuck. Great for beginners, which, I'm sure, is this book's intended audience-- 5 Amazon.com stars.
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Summary: Move over MSWORD, there's better software in town!!
Review: The Classroom book really broke out what the user's manual(that comes with the FrameMaker software)tries to say. I was already familiar with using software for documentation, but had no idea until after completing this book that FM made it so much easier. I completed the book in two days, and read over it without using the computer for another two days. I did have some trouble getting the TOC practice files to open correctly for me, but I still learned a bunch. This book is worth the money, but is mostly developed for the very beginners! Good Luck!
Rating:
Summary: Great as a tutorial
Review: This book is a wonderful tutorial, especially for new users, but does not function as well as a general reference. Still, I highly recommend this book and as others have said, it is useful to work through it more than once. Don't bother with the Online Helpless file--this book will teach you more than anything Adobe includes with the program.
Rating:
Summary: Buyer beware!
Review: This tutorial REQUIRES that you have Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 installed! So, there is no cheap way to learn FrameMaker. This tutorial should come WITH the purchase of FrameMaker. -Jane Austen
Rating: 
Summary: A good way to be introduced to FrameMaker
Review: This tutorial served as a great way to be introduced to using FrameMaker. I had never used FrameMaker before. The tutorial touched on all the main features of the program, providing a comprehensive overview. However, the tutorial is lacking in several ways. For one, the lessons give you steps to follow to accomplish a specific task, but does not explain the why's of these steps, resulting at times in confusion as to why something was done. Also, the lessons often integrate various functions into one long step, and little attention is paid to one particular function. Many individual functions are never even covered. (This last aspect of the tutorial is, again, why I believe that this tutorial primarily serves best as an introduction to the program.) Yet used in conjunction with the FrameMaker User Guide, Classroom In a Book serves as a simple and handy counterpart.
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