Adobe FrameMaker 9 Default Document Templates

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Adobe FrameMaker 9 comes with a set of built-in default document templates. Here is how you can browse them:
1) Launch your FrameMaker 9. The Starter screen offers you a few default templates to choose from:

Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Starter Screen

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2) Click Letter to display the letter template:
Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Letter Template

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You can edit this template by inserting your own information and content and then save it under any name you like.

Another Way

The beauty of all Adobe products is that they always offer you more than one ways to accomplish the same thing. “Different strokes for different folks,” as they say in American English 🙂
Here is another way of displaying the templates once you are inside the FrameMaker:
1) Select File > New > Document from the menu to display the New dialog box:

Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, New Document Screen

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2) Click Explore Standard Templates button to display the Standard Templates screen:

Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Standard Templates Screen

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3) Select Letter under the Business group of templates and then click the Create button to display a blank Letter document created from this template:
Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Letter Template BLANK

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4) Edit this new document by inserting your own information and content and then save it under any name you like.

Other Templates

Explore all the other FM9 templates by selecting and displaying them. These are rather basic and plain templates but they’re still something.
From MY WISH LIST: It would really be great if FrameMaker 10 offered some well-designed world-class document templates that we’d all be proud of using. The Adobe team can certainly follow Microsoft Word 2010’s lead in this regard. See MS Word 2010 Templates
Here are a few that comes with FM9:
MEMO Template

Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Memo Template

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FAX Template
Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Fax Template

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Envelope Template
Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Envelope Template

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Numeric Report Template
Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Numeric Report Template

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Outline Template
Default Templates in Adobe FrameMaker 9, Outline Template

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1 Comment

  1. Best GDI Team on May 3, 2011 at 2:04 am

    Sweet, I love how easy Adobe is to use as well 🙂