Dan Logan is the product manager for QuarkXPress 9, and he’s also an excellent presenter! Watch the recording of his one-hour presentation on “QuarkXPress 9: Automatic text formatting with Conditional Styles” any time, here.

For those unfamiliar with this new feature, it’s a way to automatically format text, based on the structure of the text surrounding it. For example, you can automatically format the price at the end of a product description, based on its location in the paragraph: “the text between the paragraph return and the tab that occurs before it“. Or, format the product name, because it is “all the text before the first tab“.

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.