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Those who develop or manage templates using tools such as Adobe FrameMaker™, Microsoft Word® and more benefited from this presentation. Participants learned tips and techniques to deploy templates for rapid reuse in the real world.

Harvard Business Review, Rogers Media, Frank Russell Company, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, General Dynamics, Boeing, Canadian Standards Association, Celestica, and more have seen a valuable return on their documentation by using standard templates. These templates have been developed using the same techniques demonstrated in this presentation.

The speaker’s objectives included teaching participants how to better:

Set up and apply numbering for chapters, sections, tables, figures, procedures and more
Define dynamic header and footer content
Develop character, paragraph and table formats correctly utilizing all available features
Set up complex references between sections and documents
Create watermarks that are easy to dynamically update with new content
Develop complex tips, warning, cautions and notes as stand-alone paragraphs or through the use of tables
Convert stand-alone files into templates for rapid reuse and deployment
Use creative methods to layout documents while working with limitations of software tools

About the Speaker

Bernard Aschwanden, of Publishing Smarter, is a recognized publishing technologies expert. Bernard presents at conferences and events across Europe and North America. BernardHe is an Adobe Certified Expert, a Certified Technical Trainer and the author of numerous publications on publishing and single sourcing. A dynamic and entertaining speaker, Bernard tailors his presentations to the audience and welcomes participation.

Aschwanden is a Senior Member of the Society for Technical Communication and past president of the Computer Trainers Network. He has helped hundreds of companies implement successful publishing solutions. Bernard is focused on publishing better, publishing faster, publishing smarter.