OK, I grabbed the CD that had the Quark tips I had made a few years ago when I was teaching it. Hope these help some. Print them out and use them as you are working. If you have questions, feel free to post them.
Tool palette basics:
The first tool in the top of the tool palette is the selection tool, for selecting and moving text and picture boxes.
The second tool, the hand tool, is used for typing text in a box or for moving a picture in it’s box.
The A box is for creating a text box
The box with the x is for creating a picture box (there are special picture box tools below it).
Line tools are for drawing lines
And the chain tools are for connecting 2 text boxes so the text flows form one to the other.
Note if in your document you don’t see a certain palette, you can go to view > show that palette.
Essential Keyboard Tips for QuarkXPress:
(You’ll use these first few a lot)...
- Holding option down while moving the mouse manually scrolls your page.
- F7 key (hides/shows guides)
- Command 0 fits doc to window
- F5 (brings selected itme to front, shift F5 sends to back)
- Command clicking on a color in the color palette opens the color palette options
- To select a box (text or picture box) that is directly underneath another box (or even underneath 2 boxes) hold Command Option Shift and click the first box, then click again and the box underneath is now selected.
Something to note also: When a box is selected, Command T brings up it’s “runaround” options (you mostly want runaround set to “none” unless you want type to runaround a specific picture, otherwise it makes type boxes underneath not display their type properly when you move a picture box over it, as you will see).
Images:
Command E is “import picture”
Command Shift F will make the picture fill its box
(Command Shift Option F does the same, but maintains the picture’s proportions)
Command Shift Option Period increases the pictures size in increments of 5%
(note, you can also change the size of a picture by selecting it with the hand tool then in the measurements palette (the horizontal palette along the bottom) type in a desired % next to the X and Y)
Command Shift Option Comma decreases the pictures size in increments of 5%
Command Shift M centers the picture in its box
Type Size:
Command Shift Option Period increases the fonts size in increments of 1pt
Command Shift Option Comma decreases the fonts size in increments of 1pt
(just Command Shift does it in much larger increments)
Type Leading:
Command Shift Quote increases the highlighted paragraph’s leading in increments of 1pt
Command Shift Semicolon decreases the highlighted paragraph’s leading in increments of 1pt
Type Tracking:
Same as above, but with the bracket keys.
- Command Shift T shows the tabs (tabs can be set for a single line, paragraph or entire text box, whatever is highlighted when you hit command T)
- Command Shift F shows paragraph formats
- Hitting Command Shift Z - the next key you type will be a Zapf Dingbat (this is a quick way to get a speacial character without having to change the font to “Zapf Dingbat”).
Also, double clicking on a box with the selection tool selected will bring up a few of the box’s options (Ie you can make a text box several columns etc.).
Also note that margin guides (the blue lines on the doc) are created when opening a “new doc” but can be changed by double clicking on the master page, then go up to Page > Master Guides.
Other guides (green lines) can be dragged out from the ruler with the selection tool, at any time and put back the same way.
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