Quark XPress: Editorial
Short course
In London
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Day
The emphasis throughout the day is on the powerful text manipulation and editing features of QuarkXPress rather than the layout and design features. Suitable for: This course has been designed to meet the needs of professionals, such as sub-editors and journalists, using QuarkXPress in an editorial capacity.
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- Quark XPress Editorial course outline
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About this course
There are no requirements for this course.
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Course programme
Introduction
• Tools in QuarkXPress
• The measurement palette
• Moving around your document
Basic text controls
• Different ways of selecting text
• Importing text and graphics
• Formatting text
• Using leading and tracking controls
• Using invisibles and guides
• Font substitution
• Finding and changing text
• Exporting text from QuarkXPress
• Saving text in MS Word format
• Checking the spelling
• The auxiliary dictionary
Working with layers
• Creating and editing layers
Style sheets
• Importing style sheets
• Creating style sheets
• Editing style sheets
• Character and paragraph level style sheets
• Synchronising styles across several documents
Working with Master Pages
• Understanding Quark templates
• Creating Master Pages
• Adapting Master Pages
• Applying Master Pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Running headers and footers
Working with tables
• Defining columns and rows
• Resizing tables
Further text controls
• Running text around pictures
• Linking text boxes
• Using synchronised text
• Creating text on a path
• Hyphenation and justification
• Setting the baseline grid
• Locking text to the baseline grid
• Anchored text boxes
Printing
• Proofing your document
• Using Quark Job Jacket
• Using font usage
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Quark XPress: Editorial