Get familiar with the document window and tabbed documents in Adobe FrameMaker.
A document window appears when you open a structured or FrameMaker document. The window shows the document text formatted, with graphics and other items in place, and everything laid out in a page design. If more than one document is open, a document window appears for each one.
The document window is the only window available in the standard FrameMaker workspace. In the Structured FrameMaker workspace, you can also view element boundaries in the document window.
Tabbed documents
When you open more than one file, the document windows are tabbed. You can open documents as floating windows by clearing the Open Documents As Tabs option in .
However, when you add a generated file, such as a Table of Contents, the generated file appears minimized in the lower-left corner of your workspace. There are multiple ways in which you can organize floating and tabbed document windows.
To dock a document window in a group of document windows, drag the window into the group.
To rearrange the order of tabbed document windows, drag a window’s tab to a new location in the group.
To undock a document window from a group of windows, drag the window’s tab out of the group.
Note: When you minimize a floating document window, it covers a part of the FrameMaker status bar. You cannot move the minimized window to a new location.
There are various other tasks that you can perform from the context-menu of a tabbed document. Right-click the tabbed document window, and you can perform the following tasks:
Consolidate all document windows
Close the selected tab or all open documents
Move the selected tab to a new window
Open Windows Explorer where the file is stored
Create a document
Open a document