FrameMaker 11 "remembers" which paragraph style is in each column of a table when you create or update the table style. This includes paragraph styles that have artwork form the Reference Page. Using these two features in tandem, you can easily create a two-column "CAUTION" box table that will place CAUTION artwork to the side of your text. Since the CAUTION arwork is invoked from the reference page, you can change it there once and update all instances of the CAUTION used in a new table. This allows (a) swift and easy authoring with consistent results and (b) the ability to globally update all instances of a particular segregated caution statement. With WORD, considerable effort would be required to plant consistent artwork in all instances of such a table.

FrameMaker 11's Reference Pages allow you to associate text and artwork with paragraph formatting. For instance, you can place horizontal lines above or below a paragraph, or have a "Caution" box automatically placed above a paragraph. Writers cannot edit this artwork on the body page; one must visit the Reference Page in order to make a change. If the user revises the artwork or text in a special frame on the Reference Page, all instances associated with paragraph styles will universally update throughout the document.

Word's style catalogs don't obviously segregate text styles from paragraph styles. FrameMaker 11 provides simple, logical catalogs for paragraphs, character styles, table styles and even graphic object styles. In FrameMaker 11, not only can you globally update headings, lists and emphasized text, you can even change all instances of named tables, labeled anchored frames or graphic objects! This allows you a level of formatting control and document consistency amongst multiple authors you could have only dreamed of with Word. Warning: once you use these tools, there is no turning back.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne explains the difference between duplicating a Smart Object using the Layers panel to create multiple instances of a layer and creating a copy of a Smart Object using the application menu for independent editing.

FrameMaker 11 has graphic object properties, which behave somewhat like layers in InDesign. Confined to vector graphic shapes and anchored frames, they allow users to universally change all instances of certain anchored frames, text call-outs, or common shapes and graphic objects.

In this episode, you will learn how to link stories within the same document with InDesign CS5.5. This feature gives you great flexibility if you have duplicated content throughout an InDesign document that might need to be updated. Now, instead of having to update every instance, you can simply update the source text, and easily update all linked text frames!

Platform Evangelist Michael Chaize demonstrates the nuances of creating shared forms that link real-time data between two or more instances, leveraging the baton and timeOut properties in LiveCycle Collaboration Service.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn about the event object that is automatically passed around with an event instance and contains useful information for you to capture. You will also learn about event propagation, which includes the capturing, targeting and bubbling phases of event handling.

Doug showcases how to more efficiently customize a project’s class objects by changing text labels as each instance is created.

Doug examines a method for dynamically generating new instances of custom class objects for his Flash Professional CS5 project using ActionScript.