Who should attend this QuarkXpress course?
This course is suitable for those who need to
be able to view, proof and edit QuarkXPress documents. The course is suitable for those with little
or no previous experience of QuarkXPress or those who are self taught. Familiarity with the
operating system and the keyboard is a course prerequisite.
How long is this QuarkXpress
course?
1 Day
What are the benefits of attending this course?
You will learn
how QuarkXPress documents (ranging from single page layouts to multi page documents) are
constructed, how to navigate through long documents and how to edit text and items. The topics and
features listed below will be taught on the course giving you a thorough grounding in the
fundamental processes involved in editing and the implications.
Course Outline
Understanding the working environment
- Setting document
preferences
- Creating a new document
- Overview of the Toolbox
- Overview of the
measurements palette
- Methods of changing magnification and view
Navigation
methods
- Overview of the document layout palette
- Exploring the different methods
of moving around a page
- Different methods of moving through multi-page
documents
Document layout
- Creating text boxes
- Manipulating text
boxes
- Methods of selecting items
- Specifying box attributes
- Importing text
files
- Understanding and using automatic text boxes
- Understanding text
linking
- Linking text boxes
- Implications of unlinking text boxes across a
story
- Controlling and managing links
- Creating over matter boxes for linked
stories
Working with type
- Using the different methods of selecting
text
- Understanding and using options on the measurement palette
- Understanding
typography and typographic terms
- Inputting text
- Inserting special
characters
- Importing external text files
- Cutting text
- Copying
text
- Pasting text
- Exporting Quark text files
- Formatting
text
- Changing typefaces and sizes
- Understanding and editing leading
- Kerning
and tracking text
- Using the text attributes option
- Searching for specific
text
- Finding and changing text
- Finding and changing fonts
- Running a spelling
check
- Creating, using and adding words to an auxiliary dictionary
Style
sheets
- Understanding, using and creating paragraph styles
- Understanding, using
and creating character styles
- Editing styles
- Checking style
attributes
- Duplicating styles
- Copying styles to new publications
- Viewing
used and unused styles
Hyphenation
- Understanding hyphenation and
justification settings
- Creating and editing hyphenation and justification
settings
- Setting hyphenation exceptions
Pictures
- Drawing and
editing picture boxes
- Importing picture files
- Checking picture
settings
- Understanding the graphic measurement palette
- Running text around
pictures
- Checking box positions
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Locking and
unlocking
- Picture usage
Master Pages
- Understanding single and
double sided master pages
- Creating master pages
- Modifying master
pages
- Automatic page numbering
- Creating headers and footers
Saving and
printing
- Saving Quark XPress files
- Printing Quark XPress files
