When you’re not working with text in QuarkXPress 8 and above, you can press the following keys on your keyboard to switch between tools:
V = Item tool
T = Text Content tool, Text Linking tool, Text Unlinking tool
R = Picture Content tool
B = Rectangle Box tool, Oval Box tool, Star Box tool, Composition Zones tool
L = Line tool
P = Bézier Pen tool, Add Point tool, Remove Point tool, Convert Point tool, Scissors tool, Select Point tool, Freehand Drawing tool
G = Table tool Z = Zoom tool
Also note: you can cycle through tools that share the same shortcut key by pressing that key repeatedly. (For example, the Text Linking tools that are nestled with the Text Content tool.)
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10. January 2012 at 11:11 am
Need the OTHER ways of switching tools, and if possible a way to temporily access the zoom tool WITHOUT using two fingers!
10. January 2012 at 11:21 am
… also, please include things like the Option Command shortcut that enlarges to 200% and back again to 100%. Especially important to know these things now that Command by itself no longer zooms all the way up (and Option Command no longer zooms back down).
9. February 2012 at 7:56 am
I’m using Quark 9.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.3 but SHORTCUTS for Text and Pics not working – Command Option Shift . (period) and , (comma) for enlarging/decreasing text and pics. Also Command Shift F for pics. These all worked on my rather ancient but workable Quark. Very big loss since I moved to Quark 9 in the last couple of weeks. Any help would be very much appreciated.
11. February 2012 at 8:27 pm
Tom: I’m running Mac OS X 10.6.8, and QuarkXPress 9.2, and the shortcuts you mentioned work for me. I’m not sure why they’re not working for you!
27. April 2012 at 11:16 am
Does anyone know a shortcut to maneuver between the Text Tool and the Link Text box tool?? We work on Mac OS X 10.7.3, and our Quark is 9.2.1
27. April 2012 at 11:18 am
Sharron: pressing the T key will cycle through the text/link/unlink tools. So, press T (when you’re not editing text, obviously!) to access each tool in order. If you’re using a different tool, the first T will give you the Text editing tool. Your next T will give you the linking tool. Then, the unlinking tool. Then, back to the Text editing tool.
1. June 2012 at 4:42 am
Hello Jay
I am on a MacPro with Lion and Quark 9: the shortcut F7 for show/hide guides does not work anymore, I searched for days now, in vain. Only thing on forums: restore shortcuts to default in prefs/keyboard, but that doesn’t work.
Am I the only person with this issue?
Milan
1. June 2012 at 1:04 pm
Milan: try holding down the “fn” key when you press F7. If that works, then you’ll want to make a change in your Mac’s preferences. Go to the Keyboard preference pane and enable the checkbox: “Use all F1, F12, etc. keys as standard function keys.”
24. October 2012 at 5:03 am
Hi Jay,
Is there any way to revert to using the control key for zooming? It’s a real nuisance having to come out of a text box to use the ‘z’ key for zooming.
24. October 2012 at 5:30 am
Ha ha, I figured it out, “control+shift” for zooming in and “control+shift+alt” for zooming out.
14. February 2013 at 5:36 am
Hi Jay – big thanks – the non-functional F7 guides shortcut has dogged me for some time. Top Man!
20. February 2013 at 2:35 pm
Areebo: glad to help! We QuarkXPress users are all about efficiency and keyboard shortcuts. I still can’t believe that 12+ years into it, InDesign doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut equivalent to Quark’s Option-Shift-click (Windows: Alt-Shift-click) to copy one paragraph’s formatting to another paragraph! And don’t get me started on changing font size and leading by 1 pt — or defining leading by adding an absolute amount to the font size — all still missing from InDesign.
1. March 2013 at 3:42 pm
What happened to the “objects alignment” command in Quark9? Earlier Quark you could select multiple objects and hit command+comma to align objects left, right, center and top, center bottom while typing in exact measurement? Just upgraded to Quark 9 and found it missing!