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Accelerated QuarkXPress 6, Skills and Drills
Accelerated QuarkXPress 6 Skills and Drills Author:Kevin A. Siegel The Fastest Way to Learn QuarkXPress 6 After you have completed the step-by-step lessons in this book, you will be able to produce flyers, brochures, newsletters, and magazines. You'll be able to change the appearance of text, paragraphs, tab stops, and you will be able to import and manipulate graphics. There is a module in ... more »this book that will show you, step-by-step, how to combine text and graphics on a page to produce a flyer that includes text running around an image. You'll learn to use and modify style sheets that will enable you to quickly format consistent-looking documents. You'll also learn how to control text flow, create and use master pages and libraries, and control tracking, kerning and hyphenation... all necessary skills that will dramatically improve your productivity. As you move through this fast-paced tutorial, you'll be able to use Quark's book features that will allow you to combine several Quark files into one. You'll learn to create a table of contents, build an index and synchronize files for a consistent look. AND... You will work with Layers, Tables and create HTML pages. All this, and most people will be able to finish in 3-4 days. Here's just a sampling of the things you will learn to do during this step-by-step tutorial: Work with Text and Picture Boxes | Resize and Move Page Elements | Customize a Tool | Change the Zero Point | Work with Overflow Text | Undo Multiple Commands | Set Maximum History Actions | Modify a Text Box | Work with Invisibles | Use Different Text Selection Techniques | Change Character Attributes | Get Text | Align Paragraphs | Create Multiple Columns | Set a First Line Indent | Add Paragraph Space | Set Leading | Set Paragraph Rules | Work with an Automatic Text Box | Move Around a Multi-Page Document | Insert and Delete Pages | Add Ruler Guides | Use the Linking tools | Set Tab Stops | Get a Picture | Fit a Picture Non-Proportionally | Center a Picture in a Picture Box | Change the Scale of a Picture | Rotate a Picture | Skew a Picture | Create and Customize a Clipping Path | Use Standard Step and Repeat | Use Space/Align | Group Items | Merge Items | Pass Through a Stack | Change and Edit a Shape | Create a Smooth Point | Add an Arrowhead to a Line | Change Box Content | Use Find/Change | Add Ruler Guides | Create a Text Wrap around a Picture | Spell Check | Collect for Output | Create a PDF | Learn About Points, Picas and Inches | Use the Colors Palette | Add a Process Color to the Colors Palette | Create and Use a Library | Create a Master Page | Add Elements to a Master Page | Use an Existing library | Add an Automatic Page Number | Duplicate and Rename Master Pages | Assign a Master Page | Edit a Runaround | Create and Apply Style Sheets | Lock Text to a Paragraph Grid | Insert Drop Caps | Work with XPress Tags | Add Points to a Shape | Borrow Page Elements from Another Document | Control Hyphenation | Create Tables | Use the Usage Utilities to Replace a Font and Pictures | Create and Use a Template | Create Sections | Use Absolute Page Numbers | Remove a Section | Create an Inline Graphic | Create Continued Lines | Create an Auxiliary Dictionary | Create a Book File | Synchronize Selected Chapters | Create a Table of Contents Style | Create a Table of Contents List | Create a Table of Contents | Create an Index | Create and Use Layers | Work with Trapping | Print Separations | Create Multiple Layouts | Synchronize Text | Change Page Properties | Learn the Basics of HTML in Quark« less