Here’s a trick for quickly toggling the visibility of just one layer in the Layers palette:

Control-click the eyeball next to a layer to make it visible and hide all other layers. Control-click a different layer to make that layer visible and hide all the others. To show all layers you must Control-click and choose Show All Layers from the contextual menu that appears.

These same tricks work for Locking layers as well.

Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.