RE: What are the top ten features Word users hate about FM? [ENTERTAI NMENT]

[Dina Davidson <dina.davidson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few more:

Why can't I do drag 'n drop editing?
What the heck in an anchored frame for anyway?
What's the difference between an anchored frame, a graphic frame and a text
frame?
Where's the "callout button"?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hedley Finger (EPA) [mailto:Hedley.Finger@ericsson.com.au]
> Sent: February 2, 2000 5:49 PM
> To: 'FrameUsers Self-Help'; 'Free-Framers Self-Help'
> Subject: What are the top ten features Word users hate about FM?
> [ENTERTAI NMENT]
> 
> 
> 
> 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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