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Where’s the Rounded Rectangle Tool?

To simplify the Tools palette in QuarkXPress 8 and above, Quark rethought how the tools work together. So, for the “box shapes” they simplified your choices to a rectangle, circle and starburst. To make a rounded-corner rectangle, create a rectangle and then change its corner style in the Measurements palette. Try this: create a rectangle [...]

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Select Though Stacked Objects

To select an object that is beneath another object in a stack of objects, do this: In InDesign: Command-click the stack. Each Command-click will select the next item down. In QuarkXPress: use Command-Option-Shift instead.  

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Use QuarkXPress Layouts for Revisions

One powerful use of the Layout feature in QuarkXPress is to save previous revisions of a document. For example, when you want to revise a Project that contains just one Layout (as most Projects do), rather than duplicating the entire Project, just duplicate the Layout. That way, the original version of your Layout is kept [...]

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Videos: Precision Typography in QuarkXPress 9.5

Quark has several brief videos that show how some of the new typography features work in QuarkXPress 9.5. Specifically, Bullets and Numbering lets you create Styles for bullets, numbering and outlines that can automate your formatting; Story Editor lets you view your text in an easy-to-read, word-processor-like view; and Linkster lets you unlink and link [...]

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