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Adobe FrameMaker 9 Overview / Toolbars

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In this video tutorial we're going to explore Toolbar Usage in Adobe FrameMaker 9. A lot of what you see on screen for the Toolbars is going to be based on the workspace that you're in. The Review Workspace for example shows a Default with a couple of Toolbars located across the top of the screen. However, I'm going to change to the Managing Graphics and when I try to manage graphics, the Toolbars change around and I see a new Toolbar over at the far side on the left. Inside the Toolbar there's a small gray dotted line and that appears on a Toolbar regardless of if it's docked on the side, or on these Toolbars if they're docked along the top of the screen. The general function of that gray bar, however, is exactly the same. If I click and drag the gray bar I can move the Toolbar from its current location and either have it as a free-floating Toolbar or one that's docked off to the side. If it's docked to the side again, I can take the gray bar and I can drag it and make this one into a free-floating Toolbar. Some Toolbars also have this small double arrow and when I click it, it changes the orientation of the Toolbar to rotate it. Now the double arrow appears down at the bottom and again, I hover over it and I see the Hand Icon and I click and it changes the orientation of the Toolbar again. Any of the Toolbars can be redocked by taking that title and dragging it to the side, or dragging it back up to the top. If I take a Toolbar that wasn't originally placed off to the side and I dock it, it just changes the Toolbar's alignment. So, click and drag in order to change Toolbars into free-floating Toolbars, whether those Toolbars are located on the top or on the side and you can pull them apart and reposition them in a variety of different places and ways. Of course, if you want to see all of your Toolbars, or you want to specifically turn on and off some of the Toolbars, you can use the View Menu. Under the View Toolbars, I can choose exactly which ones I want to show or hide. So, for example, if I go in under View Toolbars and I turn off all the Graphics Toolbar, you'll see the Graphics Toolbar in the middle of the screen disappears. To bring Toolbars back, just View, Toolbars and select the specific Toolbar that you want to see and it's restored to its previous position. If you really want to, you can go in and you can View All of the Toolbars, or you can Hide All of the Toolbars in pretty much the same fashion. View, Toolbars, Show All, or Hide All. The Toolbars are also associated with the specific display that's being seen onscreen, so if I go in and I change my workspace to the Review Workspace everything onscreen changes around. If I change back into my Manage Graphics, the Toolbars reappear as I last had them, which may or may not be exactly what you want. So, if you have moved around a variety of Toolbars, configured them, changed them around, you want to reset the workspace just choose Reset Workspace, confirm that this is indeed what you want to do and all of the Toolbars go back to their original settings. So, Toolbars have a variety of different ways that they can be displayed and hidden and you can use the workspace as a way to manage Toolbars. If you're not sure what some of the Toolbar Icons mean you can hover over the button and a pop-up message appears letting you know exactly what it is that that Toolbar option does.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe FrameMaker 9
Author: Bernard Aschwanden
SKU: 34015
ISBN: 1-935320-77-7
Release Date: 2009-09-30
Duration: 6 hrs / 104 lessons
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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