Most QuarkXPress users know that to break a chain of text boxes, you grab the Unlinking tool (the broken chain), click on any of the linked boxes, and then click on the tail feathers of the arrow pointing to the box you want to unlink. This breaks the chain, disconnecting all boxes after it.
However, it’s not obvious how to remove one box while keeping the boxes before and after it linked. To do that, just grab the Unlinking tool, hold down the Shift key, and click on the box you want to remove. It will be removed from the chain, and the boxes before and after it will pretend it never existed.
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3. March 2009 at 1:59 pm
Do you know how to join/link one set of linked text boxes to another existing set of linked text boxes – in quark 7? Thanks Rick
6. March 2009 at 3:26 pm
One easy way would be to select all the text in the second set of linked text boxes, cut it (Edit> Cut), then using the Linking tool to link the last box from the first chain to the first box in the second chain. Then just paste the text onto the end of the existing text in the text boxes.
In other words, cut-link-paste.