QuarkXpress Level 1
Course
In Washington
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Beginner
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Location
Washington
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Duration
2 Days
This course is an introduction to page layout using QuarkXpress. We will guide you through a wide variety of techniques used for creating single page newsletters to multi-page presentations. QuarkXpress is the industry standard page-layout application.
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About this course
Good PC skills
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Course programme
This course is an introduction to page layout using QuarkXpress. We will guide you through a wide variety of techniques used for creating single page newsletters to multi-page presentations. QuarkXpress is the industry standard page-layout application.
Prerequisites
- Good PC skills
- QuarkXpress Level 2
- Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
- Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
- 1 delegate per computer
- 12 Months telephone and email support
- Lunch (When at our training venue)
- Refreshments (When at our training venue)
- Relaxed refreshment area at our training room
Creating a new document
- Viewing options and shortcuts
- Using guidelines
- Palettes and their keyboard shortcuts
- Customising the tools palette
- Item and content tool models
- Drawing rectangular items
- Positioning items
- Resizing items
- Rotating items
- Inputting text
- Viewing invisibles
- Selecting text
- Undo, cut, copy, and paste
- Importing text
- Selecting fonts & font sizes
- Scaling text
- Kerning/tracking
- Leading
- Baseline shift
- Indent here invisible
- Space before/after
- Working with drop caps
- Indents
- Text alignment
- Text insert
- First baseline
- Vertical alignment
- Flipping text
- Multiple column boxes
- Linking/unlinking text boxes
- Controlling text flow
- Inserting tabs
- Setting tab ruler markers
- Adding/deleting tabs
- Adding fill characters
- Using paragraph rules
- Adding frame
- Using the colours palette
- Using item-modify for colour
- Using graduated blends
- Creating straight lines
- Modifying straight lines
- Rectangular/oval picture boxes
- Importing pictures
- Resizing/scaling pictures
- Picture file formats
- Use of none and items modes
- Aligning text to picture bounds, auto image and embedded paths
- Working with multiple items
- Duplicate, step and repeat
- Working with layers
- Selecting through layers
- Selecting multiple items
- Locking items
- Introduction to colour
- Creating and naming colours
- Copying to and from a library
- Listing library contents
- Creating character styles
- Creating paragraph styles
- Applying styles
- Duplicating styles
- Using based on styles
- Single and spread masters
- Modifying master items
- Automatic page numbering
- Using multiple master pages
QuarkXpress Level 1