QuarkXPress (Beginners) - 1 day - on-Site Training

QuarkXPress Course for beginners

One day beginners Quark XPress course will introduce you the basics of desktop publishing with Quark XPress, creating simple documents like flyers, small adverts, leaflets, etc.

Quark XPress courses are available in Birmingham and Midlands areas and around the UK.

Level: beginners Quark course

Software: Quark Xpress 4, 5, Quark Xpress 6, QuarkXpress 7, QuarkXpress 8 on PC or Mac.

Numbers: One to one or small groups of up to 4 trainees
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.

Beginners Quark XPress Course Outline - 1 day

Introduction to QuarkXPress - tools, techniques and introduction to the basics of page layout and design with Quark XPress.

Creating a new Quark Xpress document

Starting a new document:
Setting document size and page margins and other options
Saving a document and organising files
Modifying page properties

Quark Xpress work area

Moving around the document
Zoom tool and shortcut keys for zooming in and out
Using guidelines to help control layout

Tools

Content & Item tools
Picture boxes and text boxes
Line and shape tools
Text linking tools

Shapes and lines

Creating shapes and lines
Setting fill colour other properties for shapes
Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines

Colours

Colours palette - adding new colours
Choosing RGB, CMYK or Pantone Spot colours
Choosing colour for type, fills and borders
Creating tints and gradients

Importing colours from other documents

Working with Images

Create a picture box - set size and position
Import a picture (file type, size, quality considerations)

Positioning an image within the picture box
Scaling, cropping and rotating images

Adding a border around an image

Text & Typography

Creating a text box
Modifying text box properties

Typing text, importing text or using Jabber
Setting type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation

Basic typography settings: leading, tracking and kerning
Paragraph formatting - indents, paragraph spacing

Checking Spelling

Changing the number of columns of text
Flowing type from one text box to another

Flowing type around images and other objects

Shapes and Selected Objects

Shape Modifying – changing from one shape to another
Converting between picture boxes and text boxes

Using the Measurements Palette for accurate measurements and calculations

Duplicating selected objects
Spacing and aligning items on the page
Create multiple identical objects with equal spacing using Step & Repeat
Grouping objects together
Locking objects to prevent accidental moving

Page Management

Adding new pages, organising pages, deleting pages
Basic overview of how a master page works and adding content to the master page

Create A Simple Document

Create a small simple document such as a single page newsletter, with text and images. This could be a simple document of your own - e.g. a poster, leaflet, postcard, magazine advert, simple newsletter or other small document.