Quark Xpress Training: Intermediate Level

2-day Course

Time saving features

Style sheets and master pages
Word count
Find and replace – expanded
Building and working with multi-page documents
Super step and repeat


Pages and Master Pages

Multi-page documents
Facing and non-facing documents
Editing and duplicating master pages 

Creating gatefolds and more
Master Pages Advanced Control
Master page changes and application
Page sectioning and section numbering
Compsition tool and functions
Sectioning


Text & Typography

Paragraph and column breaks, widows and orphans
Formatting with drop caps, baseline shift, paragraph rules
Tabbed lists
Keep options
Hanging indentation
Invisible characters
Glyphs and special characters
Type boxes as imageholders

Style Sheets

Character v Paragraph Style Sheets – when to apply which
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing style sheets from other documents
Item styles
Dashes and stripes
Lists
Indexing

Tables

Simple tables and using tables as ingenious solutions
Formatting cell properties

Headers, 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

Images

Alpha channels for transparency
Clipping paths
When things go wrong on import
Import control
Anchored imagery
Drop shadows
Opacity
Picture effects
PSD import and control
Print suppression

Basic interactivity

Basic buttons
Special characters
Hyperlinks
Anchors

Layers

Using layers to control elements

Output

PPD management
Usage function
Collecting for output, and pitfalls
Creating PDF files
Default tool properties and how to change them
Predefined colours 

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