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Shortcut to Delete a Word in QuarkXPress

When editing text in QuarkXPress, you can easily delete the word before your text cursor by pressing Command-Delete. To delete the word after your cursor, press Command-Shift-Delete. (Windows: use Ctrl-Delete and Ctrl-Shift-Delete.) What a timesaver! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2010%2F08%2F13%2Fshortcut-to-delete-a-word-in-quarkxpress%2F'; addthis_title = 'Shortcut+to+Delete+a+Word+in+QuarkXPress'; addthis_pub = '';

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Control Fractions in QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress has a handy feature that automatically formats any arbitrary fraction (15/16, for example) as a true fraction. Just select the fraction and choose Style> Type Style> Make Fraction. Recently, James Felici wrote an excellent article on how to create true fractions (using any numbers) in both InDesign and QuarkXPress. Read it at www.creativepro.com/article/fractional-improvements In [...]

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How to Remove Helvetica Neue

An ongoing annoyance with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 is their requirement that the font Helvetica Neue be active. Because of this, font managers such as FontExplorer, Suitcase or FontAgent won’t let you activate any other version of Helvetica Neue — such as the one you need because it was used in a previous [...]

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Make Text Glow in QuarkXPress

A Planet Quark reader recently bemoaned the retiring of ALAP’s ShadowCaster XTension for QuarkXPress, and wanted to know how to create an outer glow using the Drop Shadow features built into QuarkXPress 7 and above. Well, here’s one way: Type “0” in the first field (Distance — or offset) Type 100% in the second field [...]

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