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Certified MadCap Flare Training Courses

MadCap Flare icon MadCap Flare Introductory Training Course – Now Included With Your Free Trial and Product Purchase

Audience

This course was designed for new Flare users. There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Overview

This course uses a combination of feature overviews and demonstrations to introduce the core features of Flare. By the end of the course, you will have the skills you need to get started on your first Flare project.

During this hands-on course, a Certified Flare Instructor will cover introductory topics, including:

  • Getting started with Flare
  • Importing HTML and Word documents
  • Adding and linking content
  • Designing content
  • Single sourcing content
  • Sending topics for review using MadCap Central and MadCap Contributor
  • Publishing single source content to multiple outputs

Duration

1-day Web-based Training

Course Value: $599 FREE

Thank you, what an amazing class this is! Well done to all of you who collaborated on the training manual. There is no question about the amount of time and effort that went into that wonderful guide. And, having Scott DeLoach as the instructor just totally blew me away.

JUDE DUNIHO | Senior Technical Writer, Sabre Holdings


What’s Covered in This Course

COURSE OVERVIEW AND GETTING STARTED

Course Overview

  • Welcome
  • Target Audience
  • Course Overview

Getting Started with Flare

  • What Is Flare?
  • A Tour of the Flare Interface
  • What is a Project?
  • Opening a Project

ADDING AND IMPORTING CONTENT

Adding Content

  • About Topics
  • Creating a Topic
  • Changing a Topic
  • Creating a Bulleted List
  • Creating a Numbered List
  • Inserting an Image
  • Inserting a Video
  • Adding a Table
  • Previewing a Topic
  • Finding and Replacing Text
  • Spell Checking

Importing Content

  • About Importing Files
  • Importing a Word Document

Linking Content

Linking Content

  • About Links
  • Creating a TOC Book or Page
  • Creating a Cross Reference
  • Creating a Hyperlink
  • Creating a Drop-down link

Designing Content

Designing Content

  • About Design
  • Applying a Stylesheet to All Topics
  • Applying a Style
  • Applying a Table Stylesheet to a Table
  • Adding Content to a Header or Footer in a Page Layout
  • Applying a Page Layout to a Target
  • Adding Content to a Template Page
  • Applying a Template Page to a Target
  • Changing a Skin
  • Applying a Skin to a Target

Single Sourcing Content

Single Sourcing

  • About Single Sourcing
  • Creating a Variable
  • Inserting a Variable
  • Creating a Snippet
  • Inserting a Snippet
  • Creating a Condition Tag
  • Applying a Condition Tag to a File or Folder
  • Applying a Condition Tag to Content

Topic Reviews and Targets

Sending Topics for Review

  • MadCap Central Review Workflow
  • MadCap Contributor Review Workflow
  • Word/PDF Review Workflow

Targets

  • About Targets
  • Setting Up an HTML5 Target
  • Building an HTML5 Target
  • Setting up a PDF Target
  • Building a PDF Target
MadCap Flare is a brilliant concept perfectly suited for the world we publish for – thanks for making this training accessible to all who need it.

Ralph Liberto | Remote Senior Level Technical Communications and Design

Upcoming Introductory Training Courses

2024-10-24T22:00:00 - 2024-10-25T05:00:00

2024-10-24T22:00:00

MadCap Flare Introductory Training, Web-based (Asia-Pacific)

Led by Mike Hamilton, VP of Product Evangelism and Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this one-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including getting started with Flare, importing content, creating and editing content, publishing your output, and more.

2024-11-07T08:01:00 - 2024-11-07T15:00:00

2024-11-07T08:01:00

MadCap Flare Introductory Training, Web-based (Europe)

Led by Mike Hamilton, VP of Product Evangelism and Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this one-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including getting started with Flare, importing content, creating and editing content, publishing your output, and more.

2024-11-21T16:00:00 - 2024-11-21T23:00:00

2024-11-21T16:00:00

MadCap Flare Introductory Training, Web-based (North America)

Led by Jennifer Morse, Vice President of Customer Success and Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this one-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including getting started with Flare, importing content, creating and editing content, publishing your output, and more.

2024-12-05T16:00:00 - 2024-12-05T23:00:00

2024-12-05T16:00:00

MadCap Flare Introductory Training, Web-based (North America)

Led by Jennifer Morse, Vice President of Customer Success and Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this one-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including getting started with Flare, importing content, creating and editing content, publishing your output, and more.

2024-12-19T23:00:00 - 2024-12-20T06:00:00

2024-12-19T23:00:00

MadCap Flare Introductory Training, Web-based (Asia-Pacific)

Led by Mike Hamilton, VP of Product Evangelism and Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this one-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including getting started with Flare, importing content, creating and editing content, publishing your output, and more.