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

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
• Flowing Text, 37
  • • Guided Activity 23: Automatically Flow Text, 37
• 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
• Rules, 45
  • Guided Activity 29: Set Paragraph Rules, 45
    • Confidence Check, 46

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• Templates, 235
  • Guided Activity 112: Create and Use a Template, 235

Lab

• Add Images to an Existing Project, 237