QuarkXPress 2025: The Essentials & Beyond Workbook
Learn QuarkXPress as You Use QuarkXPress. The Ultimate Classroom in a Book!
QuarkXPress 2025: The Essentials & Beyond is a self-paced workbook designed to teach you the essential skills to create stunning print and PDF documents. Through 112 guided activities, you'll explore a wide range of QuarkXPress concepts and features, beginning with fundamental topics like navigating the interface, managing palette sets, and customizing tools. You'll learn to work with text and pictures, handle layouts, and leverage advanced features like glyphs, leading, and rules.
The book guides you through creating and refining content, such as importing text and images, flowing text, and utilizing features like opacity, duplicating, and shape-shifting. You'll gain expertise in designing multi-page documents, numbering pages, and managing guides. Mastering techniques like manually linking text boxes, adding borders and insets, and working with style sheets prepares you for professional-grade projects.
Practical exercises delve into specialized skills, including creating tables, applying table styles, working with colors, and managing libraries. Advanced features like the baseline grid, inline formatting, and controlling bad breaks are covered in detail. The workbook concludes with tips on optimizing your workflow, including using templates, handling font and picture usage, and exporting PDFs. Whether you're creating posters, brochures, or multi-page layouts, this hands-on guide provides the step-by-step instruction needed to unlock the full power of QuarkXPress.
This book features:
- QuarkXPress projects, images, and other assets to get started
- Dozens of step-by-step, hands-on activities
- Confidence Checks to challenge your new skills
- Hundreds of supporting screenshots
What's Inside...
An Introduction to QuarkXPress
- The Interface, 2
- Guided Activity 1: Explore a Project and Layout Views, 2
- Guided Activity 2: Explore Palettes, 6
- Palette Sets, 7
- Guided Activity 3: Create and Use a Palette Set, 7
- Greeking, 8
- Guided Activity 4: Enable Greek Text Below, 8
- Managing Windows, 9
- Guided Activity 5: View Multiple Project Windows, 9
- New Projects, 11
- Guided Activity 6: Set the Application Measurements, 11
- Guided Activity 7: Create a New Project, 12
- Guided Activity 8: Change Page Orientation and Margins, 14
- Confidence Check, 15
- Text and Picture Content, 16
- Guided Activity 9: Create and Modify a Text Box, 16
- Guided Activity 10: Draw and Use a Picture Box, 17
- Guided Activity 11: Resize and Move Layout Items, 19
- Confidence Check, 19
- Customizing Tools, 20
- Guided Activity 12: Customize the Zoom Tool, 20
- The Zero Point, 21
- Guided Activity 13: Change the Zero Point, 21
- Color Schemes, 23
- Guided Activity 14: Change the Application Color Scheme, 23
- Confidence Check, 23
- Guided Activity 14: Change the Application Color Scheme, 23
Text Basics
- Single Layout Mode, 26
- Guided Activity 15: Enable Single Layout Mode By Default, 26
- Adding Text to a Layout, 28
- Guided Activity 16: Add Text and Work With Text Box Overflow, 28
- Importing Text, 30
- Guided Activity 17: Import Text, 30
- The Measurements Window, 31
- Guided Activity 18: Modify Item Attributes, 31
- Invisibles, 32
- Guided Activity 19: Display Invisibles, 32
- Selecting Text, 33
- Guided Activity 20: Use Different Text Selection Techniques, 33
- Character Attributes, 34
- Guided Activity 21: Change Character Attributes, 34
- Glyphs, 35
- Guided Activity 22: Use the Glyphs Window to Add a Symbol, 35
- Confidence Check, 36
- Guided Activity 22: Use the Glyphs Window to Add a Symbol, 35
- Flowing Text, 37
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- Guided Activity 23: Automatically Flow Text, 37
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- Paragraph Alignment, 39
- Guided Activity 24: Align Paragraphs, 39
- Paragraph Spacing, 40
- Guided Activity 25: Work with Multiple Columns, 40
- Guided Activity 26: Set a First Line Indent, 42
- Guided Activity 27: Add Space Between Paragraphs, 43
- Leading, 44
- Guided Activity 28: Set Leading, 44
- Confidence Check, 44
- Guided Activity 28: Set Leading, 44
- Rules, 45
- Guided Activity 29: Set Paragraph Rules, 45
- Confidence Check, 46
- Guided Activity 29: Set Paragraph Rules, 45
Image Basics
- Importing, Resizing, and Cropping Pictures, 48
- Guided Activity 30: Import, Resize, and Crop an Image, 48
- Guided Activity 31: Resize, Center, and Fit a Picture, 51
- Guided Activity 32: Rotate and Skew a Picture, 52
- Guided Activity 33: Resize an Item and Content Together, 53
- Confidence Check, 54
- Guided Activity 34: Add a Picture to a Layout, 55
- Confidence Check, 56
- Stock Images, 57
- Guided Activity 35: Download a Stock Image, 57
- Opacity, 59
- Guided Activity 36: Change the Opacity of an Item, 59
Working With Items
- Duplicating, 62
- Guided Activity 37: Duplicate an Item, 62
- Super Step and Repeat, 63
- Guided Activity 38: Super Step and Repeat Items, 63
- Space/Align, 66
- Guided Activity 39: Space and Align Items, 66
- Grouping, 67
- Guided Activity 40: Work With Groups, 67
- Merging, 69
- Guided Activity 41: Merge Items to Create New Shapes, 69
- Confidence Check, 69
- Guided Activity 41: Merge Items to Create New Shapes, 69
- Stacks, 70
- Guided Activity 42: Pass-Through a Stack, 70
- Shape Shifting, 71
- Guided Activity 43: Change and Edit a Shape, 71
- Guided Activity 44: Draw a Freehand Line, 74
- Guided Activity 45: Change Box Content, 75
Lab
- Create a Birthday Poster, 77
Tabs, Frames, and Insets
- Tabs, 80
- Guided Activity 46: Set and Move a Tab Stop, 80
- Guided Activity 47: Add a Tab Stop Fill Character, 84
- Confidence Check, 85
- Borders and Insets, 86
- Guided Activity 48: Add a Border to a Text Box, 86
- Guided Activity 49: Inset Text and Vertically Justify, 87
- Confidence Check, 88
Text Links
- Automatic Text Boxes, 90
- Guided Activity 50: Work With an Automatic Text Box, 90
- Multi-Page Documents, 92
- Guided Activity 51: Jump Between Pages, 92
- Guided Activity 52: Use the Page Layout Palette, 93
- Confidence Check, 95
- Numbering Pages, 97
- Guided Activity 53: Add a Current Box Page Number, 97
- Confidence Check, 99
- Guided Activity 53: Add a Current Box Page Number, 97
- Guides, 100
- Guided Activity 54: Super Step and Repeat an Item, 100
- Guided Activity 55: Add Guides to the Page, 102
- Confidence Check, 104
- Manually Linking Text Boxes, 105
- Guided Activity 56: Use the Text Linking Tool, 105
- Guided Activity 57: Use the Text UnLinking Tool, 106
- Guided Activity 58: Manually Create Page Jumps, 107
- Confidence Check, 108
Combining Text, Images, and Style Sheets
- Creating a Poster (Flyer), 110
- Guided Activity 59: Preview the Completed Project, 110
- Guided Activity 60: Add a Border to an Item, 111
- Guided Activity 61: Work with Multiple Columns, 113
- Find/Change, 115
- Guided Activity 62: Use Find/Change, 115
- Style Sheets, 118
- Guided Activity 63: Create a Paragraph Style Sheet, 118
- Confidence Check, 121
- Guided Activity 63: Create a Paragraph Style Sheet, 118
- Page Guides, 122
- Guided Activity 64: Add Page Guides, 122
- Guided Activity 65: Import an Image, 124
- Runaround, 126
- Guided Activity 66: Run Text Around an Image, 126
- Confidence Check, 127
- Spell Check, 128
- Guided Activity 67: Spell Check a Layout, 128
- Confidence Check, 129
- Guided Activity 67: Spell Check a Layout, 128
- Collect for Output, 130
- Guided Activity 68: Collect a File for Output, 130
- PDFs, 132
- Guided Activity 69: Create a PDF, 132
Measurements, Colors, and Libraries
- Points and Picas vs Inches, 136
- Guided Activity 70: Change Measurements, 136
- Working With Colors, 139
- Spot and Process Colors, 139
- Guided Activity 71: Work with Process Color, 139
- Confidence Check, 141
- Guided Activity 72: Add and Format Text, 142
- Libraries, 143
- Guided Activity 73: Create and Use a Library, 143
- Confidence Check, 145
Master Pages
- Master Pages, 148
- Guided Activity 74: Create a Multi-Column Master Page, 148
- Guided Activity 75: Add Guides to a Master Page, 151
- Guided Activity 76: Add Library Assets to a Master Page, 153
- Confidence Check, 154
- Automatic Page Numbers, 157
- Guided Activity 77: Add an Automatic Page Number, 157
- Guided Activity 78: Duplicate and Rename Master Pages, 159
- Guided Activity 79: Assign a Master Page to a Layout Page, 161
- Confidence Check, 163
- Advanced Style Sheets
- Paragraph Style Sheets, 168
- Guided Activity 80: Create and Apply Paragraph Style Sheets, 168
- Guided Activity 81: Use Find/Change to Locate a Phrase, 172
- Confidence Check, 173
- Guided Activity 82: Edit a Style Sheet, 174
- Controlling Bad Breaks, 175
- Guided Activity 83: Set Orphan and Widow Controls, 175
- Keep Options, 176
- Guided Activity 84: Set Keep Options, 176
- Confidence Check, 177
- Guided Activity 84: Set Keep Options, 176
- Inline Formatting, 178
- Guided Activity 85: Apply Inline Formatting to a Paragraph, 178
- Guided Activity 86: Convert Inline Formatting into a Style Sheet, 181
- Confidence Check, 182
- The Baseline Grid, 183
- Guided Activity 87: Lock Text to a Page Grid, 183
- Confidence Check, 185
- Guided Activity 87: Lock Text to a Page Grid, 183
- Drop Caps, 186
- Guided Activity 88: Insert Drop Caps, 186
- Confidence Check, 187
- Character Style Sheets, 188
- Guided Activity 89: Create a Character Style Sheet, 188
- Confidence Check, 189
- Guided Activity 89: Create a Character Style Sheet, 188
Item Styles
- Applying, Creating, and Editing Item Styles, 192
- Guided Activity 90: Apply an Item Style, 192
- Guided Activity 91: Override and Reapply an Item Style, 195
- Guided Activity 92: Create a New Item Style, 196
- Confidence Check, 197
- Guided Activity 93: Edit an Item Style, 198
Tracking, Kerning, and Hyphenation
- Tracking and Kerning, 200
- Guided Activity 94: Track Text, 200
- Confidence Check, 201
- Guided Activity 95: Kern Letter Pairs, 202
- Confidence Check, 202
- Project-Wide Tracking, 203
- Guided Activity 96: Add Tracking to a Style Sheet, 203
- Hyphenation, 204
- Guided Activity 97: Edit Hyphenation Settings, 204
- Confidence Check, 205
- Hyphenation Exceptions, 206
- Guided Activity 98: Set Hyphen Exceptions, 206
- Confidence Check, 207
- Hyphenation Zones, 208
- Guided Activity 99: Create a Hyphenation Zone, 208
Tables, Lists, and Templates
- Inserting Tables, 210
- Table Terms You Should Know, 210
- Guided Activity 100: Draw a Table, 210
- Guided Activity 101: Add Columns and Rows to a Table, 212
- Confidence Check, 214
- Guided Activity 102: Combine Cells, 215
- Guided Activity 103: Format a Table, 216
- Confidence Check, 217
- Guided Activity 104: Modify Table Gridlines, 218
- Guided Activity 105: Change a Cell’s Content from Text to Picture, 219
- Confidence Check, 220
- Converting Text to a Table, 221
- Guided Activity 106: Convert Text into a Multi-Column, Multi-Row Table, 221
- Confidence Check, 223
- Guided Activity 106: Convert Text into a Multi-Column, Multi-Row Table, 221
- Table Styles, 224
- Guided Activity 107: Apply Preset Table Styles, 224
- Guided Activity 108: Create a Table Style, 225
- Confidence Check, 226
- Numbered and Bulleted Lists, 227
- Guided Activity 109: Create a Numbered List, 227
- Confidence Check, 229
- Guided Activity 109: Create a Numbered List, 227
- Font Usage, 231
- Guided Activity 110: Use Font Usage to Replace a Font, 231
- Picture Usage, 233
- Guided Activity 111: Use Picture Usage to Update a Picture, 233
- Confidence Check, 234
- Guided Activity 111: Use Picture Usage to Update a Picture, 233
- Templates, 235
- Guided Activity 112: Create and Use a Template, 235
Lab
- Add Images to an Existing Project, 237