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Certified MadCap Flare Training Courses
MadCap Flare Introductory Training Course – Now Included With Your Free Trial and Product
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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
August 11, 2022
2022-08-11T22:00:00 - 2022-08-12T05:00:00
2022-08-12T05:00:00MadCap 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.
August 25, 2022
2022-08-25T15:00:00 - 2022-08-25T22:00:00
2022-08-25T22:00:00MadCap 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.
September 8, 2022
2022-09-08T15:00:00 - 2022-09-08T22:00:00
2022-09-08T22:00:00MadCap 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.
September 22, 2022
2022-09-22T15:00:00 - 2022-09-22T22:00:00
2022-09-22T22:00:00MadCap 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.
