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Course Title: Mastering Technical Writing Tools              

Course Code: MTW

Elgibility: Any Graduate

Duration: 30Days, Also Available: Weekend Classes (Saturdays & Sundays)

Fees: Based upon number of tools

Timings: 10.00 - 12.00 PM, 2.00 - 4.00 PM
                 4.00 - 6.00 PM, 7.00 - 9.00 PM

Technical Writing Software Tools

• Microsoft Word
• Macromedia RoboHelp
• Adobe FrameMaker
• Snag IT
• Ms Visio
• PhotoShop

Microsoft Word

1. About Microsoft word
   • Introduction
   • Features
2. Starting the Application
3. Accessibility
4. Formatting Text
5. Font and Paragraph settings
6. Bullets and Numbering
7. Cross-references
8. Borders and Shading
9. Styles and Formatting
10. Template Creation
11. Working with Table
12. Working with Bookmark
13. Working with Hyperlink
14. Creating Sections
15. Generating Table of Contents
16. Generating Table of Figures
17. Generating Index
18. Header and Footer
19. Working with Reviewing toolbar
20. Toolbars
21. Footnote and Endnote
22. Protecting the Document
23. Shortcuts
24. Autotext and AutoCorrect
25. Watermarks/Columns/Change Case

Macromedia RoboHelp

1. About Online Help
2. Planning an Online Help
3. Understanding RoboHelp Interface
4. Creating your First Help project
5. Working with Topics & Folders
6. Working with TOC, Index, & Glossary
7. Generating Output
8. About Types of Layouts
9. Applying Template and Style Sheet
10. Controlling CHM Window and Skins
11. Working with Links, Pop-ups, Triggers, and Drop-downs
12. Working with Graphics and Text boxes
13. Creating Related Topics, See Also and Keyword Link
14. Playing with Marquee, Triggers, and Splash Screen
15. Creating Dropdowns, Expanding, Hyperlinks and Popups
16. Changing the primary layout
17. Tools in RoboHelp Html
18. Creating and Working with Tables
19. Creating Manually/Automatically Multiple TOCs, Indexes, and Glossaries
20. Creating and Displaying Browse Sequence
21. Single Sourcing - Conditional Build Tags and Batch Generation
22. Creating Context-sensitive Help
23. Importing Files & Skins, and Merging CHM
24. Understanding the Project Source Folder and Files
25. Generating Reports.

Adobe FrameMaker

1. Introduction
2. Usage of FrameMaker
3. FrameMaker v/s MS Word
4. Getting Started
5. Accessibility
6. Creating/Importing Documents
7. Saving New File Formats
8. Basic Text Formatting
9. Working with Tags
10. Working with Tables
11. Tools Pallete
    
12. Drawing Tools
13. Working with Paragraph and Character Designers
14. Working with Frames, Anchore Frames and Alignments
15. Working with Body, Master and Reference Pages
16. Page Designing and Defining Variables
17. Hyperlink, Cross Reference, Pop-Ups and Image Mapping
18. Generating Table of Contents, Index and Glossary
19. Creating Books, Conditional Text and references
20. Document Conversions

Snag IT – Image Capturing Tool

1. About Snag IT
   Introduction
   Features
2. Starting the application
3. Image Formats
4. Exploring the Program Window
5. Capture Profile
6. Image Capturing Modes
7. Batch Convert Images
8. Creating WebPages
9. Creating simple Demos
10. Companion Applications
11. Snag IT Editor
12. Snag IT Studio
13. Catalog Browser

MS- Visio (Image Drawing Tool)

1. Introduction to MS- Visio
2. Using various technology images
3. Creating DFD’s and Architectural Diagrams
4. Synchronization of images
5. Creating different file formats
6. Special Merits
7. Installation sequence
8. Types of shapes
9. Behaviour of shapes
10. How to Get shapes
11. Templates stencil
12. Connection shapes
13. Staking shapes
14. Group/ Ungroup
15. Text Adding
16. Data Linking
17. Data Graphics
18. Auto Linking
19. Hyper Linking
20. Save type – formats
21. Importing into Word

Photoshop

1. Introduction to Photoshop
2. Cropping images and editing
3. Using advanced tools for creating architectural diagrams
4. Explore the Photoshop Environment
5. Using the File Browser
6. Basic Photo Corrections
7. Working with Selections
8. Basic flow mode for editing images using Photoshop
9. Retouching and Repairing
10. Work with selections
11. Creating layers
12. Creating a Mask and Channels
13. Correcting and Enhancing
14. Slice and Link an Image
15. Creating Rollovers
16. Animate GIF Images
17. Painting and Editing
18. Basic Pen Tool Techniques