MadSkills, Inc. (a subsidiary of MadCap Software) provides professional, affordable, onsite, and offsite classroom or web-based training for MadCap Blaze, so you can maximize the return on your software investment.

Onsite and Web-based Training

Basic/Intermediate Course

During a hands on, three-day onsite or four-day web-based training course, a Certified Blaze Instructor will cover basic and intermediate skills, including:

• Blaze overview
• Importing HTML, FrameMaker or Word documents
• Creating and editing topics
• Book and page outlines
• Indexing
• Glossary
• Links, bookmarks, footnotes
• Tables and stylesheets
• Page layouts
• Condition tags
• Variables and snippets
• Targets and output types
• Creating, configuring, and generating PDF, XPS, and XHTML documents

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Advanced CSS Course

We also offer a one-day on-site or two half-day web based advanced training course that covers:

• CSS overview
• Creating, importing, and modifying stylesheets
• Text styles
• List styles
• Link and dynamic content styles
• Table styles
• Print styles
• Testing styles

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Advanced Single Sourcing Course

We also offer a one-day on-site or two half-day web based advanced training course that covers:

• Importing and re-importing documents
• TOCs and outlines
• Document design: master pages, headers, and footers, page layout
• Stylesheets: master stylesheets, page breaks, medium types, auto-numbering
• Creating and formatting cross-references, TOC, glossary, and index types
• Condition tags
• Variables and snippets
• Building, using, and publishing targets
• Master projects: adding, creating, reusing, and linking of master projects

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Migrating from FrameMaker® to Flare and/or Blaze

During this live one-day interactive web session, we will explain how you can migrate FrameMaker documents to Flare and Blaze and create print and online documentation, policies and procedures, knowledge bases, and other types of content. This advanced training course covers:

• Overview of topic-based authoring
• How FrameMaker features convert to Flare/Blaze
• Preparing your FrameMaker documents and books for migration
• Best practices for importing documents
• Importing styles into Flare/Blaze
• Importing Index Keywords and TOC's into Flare/Blaze
• Importing images into Flare/Blaze
• Importing tables and removing inline formatting
• Importing and creating cross references and links
• Page design and layout

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Consulting

Consulting services are also provided on a project basis by MadSkills, Inc. Services include assistance with existing content conversion, project analysis, assistance starting a new project correctly, or trouble shooting and workflow assistance. Training and three days of consulting are available as a "Quick Start" program.

If you’re interested in becoming a Certified Blaze Instructor, please contact: MadCapInfo@MadCapSoftware.com