Quark XPress: Editorial

Short course

In London

£ 275 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Location

    London

  • 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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Location

Start date

London
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158 Waterloo Rd, SE1 8SE

Start date

On request

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

£ 275 + VAT