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Update a Style from Existing Item in QuarkXPress

In QuarkXPress 8.1 and higher, you can update a Paragraph, Character, or Item Style from an existing page item: just click the Update button on the appropriate Style palette. Here’s how it looks on the Style Sheets palette: This will update the Style to match the altered page item. Notice that when you hover your mouse over the [...]

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Select an Entire URL with One Double-click

QuarkXPress 8 and above selects an entire URL when you double-click any part of it, such as www.planetquark.com/category/learn/tip/. The entire text is selected and ready to be copied or formatted the way you like it!

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BigPicture: the Best Picture Manager

Badia Software’s BigPicture ($59.99, or $14.99/month) is an XTension for QuarkXPress 9/8/7/6/5/4 or a plug-in for InDesign CS6/5/4/3 that lists all the pictures in a project, and shows all the vital information about them (color model, format, file size, effective resolution, compression, scaling, angle, date modified, fonts, colors, etc.). In addition, BigPicture can select all the pictures [...]

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V and T are Your New Best Friends

The new, streamlined interface in QuarkXPress 8 and 9 makes this already efficient program even more efficient to use. I’ve developed a new habit of pressing V and T to access the Item and Text tool, respectively. When I’m editing the content of a box (text or picture), and I want to switch to the [...]

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