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Framemaker 2017 and change bars

How do I change the bar in FrameMaker?

Choose Format > Document > Change Bars.

Does FrameMaker still exist?

Modernize technical content with a robust and powerful authoring and publishing solution. Adobe FrameMaker is the reliable, market-leading choice for creating intelligent, immersive and multilingual technical content, and publishing it to PDF, HTML5 and other evolving delivery channels.

What is a change bar?

A change bar is a vertical line that visually identifies new or revised text. You can have change bars appear automatically whenever you insert, change, or delete text. Change bar applied to the left of revised text. Sometimes, you want to flag only important changes to your document rather than flag every change.

Why is FrameMaker better than Word?

FrameMaker vs Microsoft Word – For Technical Documentation



The latter was initially developed as a ‘personal productivity’ tool for creation of letters, memos, and typical short office documents while FrameMaker was built for long, complex documents involving collaboration amongst many authors, and easy content reuse.

How do I turn off change bars in FrameMaker?

Remove change bars

  1. Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select the documents you want to affect.
  2. Choose Format > Document > Change Bars.
  3. Select Clear All Change Bars, and click Set.


How do I insert revision bars in Word 2016?

Use Show Markup



Select Review > Display for Review. Select the option you want: Simple Markup points out where changes are made with a red line in the margin. All Markup shows all edits with different colors of text and lines.

Is it hard to learn FrameMaker?

However, Adobe FrameMaker is also quite a difficult program with an incredible number of features. FrameMaker’s scale and somewhat alien interface means that the people who can handle it are far and few between.

Can FrameMaker convert to Word?

Microsoft Word doesn’t detect FrameMaker documents and books, but it can read the Rich Text Format. Converting from FrameMaker to RTF is easy and straight forward: Open the FM document: select File → Open. Select File → Save as.

What are the versions of FrameMaker?


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How do I resize a table in FrameMaker?

Note: If you are working in Structured FrameMaker’s Author/Simplified XML View, you can right-click the table cell and choose Table > Format > Resize Columns. Do one of the following: To specify a value for the width, click To Width and enter the value.



How do I change the number in FrameMaker?

Set up numbering

  1. If the document is part of a book, open the book and select the document in the book window.
  2. Choose Format > Document > Numbering.
  3. Select an option from the pop-up menu.
  4. Set options.
  5. Click Set.


How do I change page size in FrameMaker?

Understand how to change the size of a page in FrameMaker.

  1. Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select the documents you want to affect.
  2. Choose Format > Page Layout > Page Size.
  3. Do one of the following: Choose a standard size from the Page Size pop-up menu.
  4. Click Set.