QuarkXpress working environment

• The Palettes
• Document Setup
• Automatic text box
• Opening and saving documents
• Tool Palette
• Rulers and Guides
• Zooming and Scrolling Techniques
• QuarkXpress Preferences

QuarkXpress Basics

• Drawing text and image boxes and lines
• Moving items
• Positioning items
• Resizing items
• The Measurements Palette

Master Pages

• The importance of master pages
• Editing master pages
• Creating new master pages
• Adding a page number
• The Document Layout Palette

• Adding and Deleting Pages

Working with Text

• Entering text
• Find/Change Basics
• Highlighting Text
• Copy, Cut, Paste for Text
• Linking Text Boxes
• Text on Lines
• Font Size
• Leading
• Kerning and Tracking
• Changing Paragraph Settings
• Setting Indents
• Space Before, Space After
• H&Js
• Drop Caps

Working with images

• Images and Picture Boxes
• Placing Images
• Scaling and cropping images
• Using images in text
• Text runaround

Colour

• The colour spaces: CMYK and Pantone
• Creating Process Colours
• Creating a Spot (Pantone) Colour
• Editing Colours
• Applying colours
• Using the Colour Palette
• Creating Background Blends

Style Sheets

• The importance of Style Sheets
• Creating Paragraph Style Sheets
• Creating Character Style Sheets
• Applying Style Sheets
• Editing Style Sheets
• Appending Style Sheets

Tabs and Rules

• Setting Tabs
• Deleting Tabs
• Editing Tabs
• Paragraph Rules

Getting ready for print

• Finalising your document
• Image and type usage
• Collect for output
• Exporting layout as PDF - hi-res and low-res options