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Quark Xpress Training, For Editors

2-day Course

Starting a new document

Setting document specifications and further options

Saving your document
Organising and managing files

Modifying the page properties
The Quark working area
Palettes
Tools

Navigation

Zooming tool plus shortcuts
Using guides to help control layout
Tool palette
Creating shapes and lines
Specifiying fill and other properties for shapes

Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines

Text & Typography

Text boxes: creating, editing, and properties
Type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation
Changing leading, tracking and kerning

Soft and hard returns
Paragraph formatting
Importing, Jabber
wocky
Hyphenations and justification
Special characters
Dictionaries
Editing H & Js
Spellchecking
Text column control
Text flow and page control
Text runaround on objects
Glyphs and fine control
Referencing and indexing
Word count
FInd and replace
Handling hanging indents and anchored imagery

Basic Production Control

Libraries
Job jackets
Tickets
Collaboration
Sharing
Layer usage
Usage
Set Up
Choosing Printer Device Profiles

Style Sheets

Character v Paragraph Style Sheets – when to apply which
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing style sheets from other documents

Tables

Simple tables and using tables as ingenious solutions
Formatting cell properties

Headers and footers
Adding images to cells
Resizing, merging, adding or removing row or column cells 

Importing table data from spreadsheets
Creating tables from selected text
Cell inset spacing

Page Management

Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages 

Grid styles
Master page basics
Adding content to the master page
Sectioning
Indexing

Basic interactivity control

Managing buttons and behaviours
Previewing: resolution and behaviours
Exporting

Saving and Printing

Saving profiles
PDF control
Separations
Asset management
Library Control
Import styling markers
Defining Preferences

Output

Layer control and item print suppressing
Collecting for output, and pitfalls
Utilities and managers
Sharing attributes
Editing attributes
Creating PDF files
Default tool properties and how to change them
Predefined colours 

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QUARK XPRESS COURSES:

• Quark Xpress Basic Training
  
• Quark Xpress Intermediate Training
  
• Quark Xpress Advanced Training
  
• Quark Xpress Training: For Print
• Quark Xpress Training: For Web
• Quark Xpress Training: For Editors
• Quark Xpress: Crash Course
• Quark Xpress: New Features Upgrade Course
  
• Quark Xpress Bespoke / Customised Training
  
• Quark Xpress Training: Mixed with Other Software
• NEW! Quark Xpress Training Blitz

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NEWEST VERSION
Released: August 2008

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QUARK XPRESS 8

New Features Summary:

• Picture Content Tool
  
• Enhanced Bezier (Drawing) Tool
  
• Shared Content Feature
  
• Flash Integration
  
• Drag and Drop Enhancement
  
• Simplified Tools
  
• Flash background programming
  
• Enhanced hanging characters
  
• More powerful grid systems
  
• OpenType and Unicode Support
  

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